Preserving the Legacy 1: Introduction to Environmental Technology (13 Parts)

Subtitle

Introduction to environmental technology

Synopsis

Looks at global environmental problems and solutions, giving examples from around the world of how committed professionals are turning textbook concepts and principles into real, viable action. Underscores the fundamental connections between the environment and the disciplines of economics, science and politics.
1: Reviews the history of environmental science and the origins of the current crisis. Introduces the concept of sustainability.
2: Looks at the role of population and the challenge of merging environmental and economic sustainability.
3: Provides a model for a study of the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced.
4: Chemicals entering the environment can have adverse impacts on human health. Two case studies are presented - one chronic and one acute.
5: Examines some primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle, the hydrologic cycle and the food chain.
6: Explains the environmental compartments of air, water and biota (living material) and presents a case study to demonstrate their interaction.
7: Examines the environmental threats to the band of life-suporting oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere. Studies applications of fuel cell technology.
8: Explores international ramifications of water-related issues and the formidable challenges posed by the mismanagement of water.
9: Surveys the use of hazardous materials, the ramifications of their illegal disposal, and the attendant political, economic and human impacts.
10: Depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at Boeing, and a safety inspection at a machine shop.
11: Shows the world’s largest landfill coping with 13,000 tons of solid waste per day; studies materials recycling and challenges posed by military nuclear waste. Environmental justice and NIMBY are underlying themes.
12: Explores environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and problems of civilian nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials.
13: Introduces a trendsetting chain of factories in Denmark that sues waste from one industry as raw material for anothe (industrial symbiotics). Visits EcoVillage in Itheca, New York.

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 x 30 min.

Year of production

1999

Availability

Out OF Distribution; 2001 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p) each part 2001 sale: £65.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) whole set

Subjects

Environmental science

Keywords

air; environmental issues; Environmental Protection Act; hazardous materials; occupational health; pollution; pollution by chemicals; population dynamics; recycling of waste; waste management; water

Sections

Title

Delicate balance - Part 1, The

Synopsis

1: Reviews the history of environmental science and the origins of the current crisis. Introduces the concept of sustainability.

Title

Delicate balance - Part 2, The

Synopsis

2: Looks at the role of population and the challenge of merging environmental and economic sustainability.

Title

Forces of law

Synopsis

3: Provides a model for a study of the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced.

Title

Health effects of hazardous materials

Synopsis

4: Chemicals entering the environment can have adverse impacts on human health. Two case studies are presented - one chronic and one acute.

Title

Ecology 1

Synopsis

5: Examines some primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle, the hydrologic cycle and the food chain.

Title

Paths of pollution

Synopsis

6: Explains the environmental compartments of air, water and biota (living material) and presents a case study to demonstrate their interaction.

Title

Air 1

Synopsis

7: Examines the environmental threats to the band of life-suporting oxygen in the earth's atmosphere. Studies applications of fuel cell technology.

Title

Water 1

Synopsis

8: Explores international ramifications of water-related issues and the formidable challenges posed by the mismanagement of water.

Title

Hazardous materials

Synopsis

9: Surveys the use of hazardous materials, the ramifications of their illegal disposal, and the attendant political, economic and human impacts.

Title

Occupational safety and health

Synopsis

10: Depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at Boeing, and a safety inspection at a machine shop.

Title

Waste - Part 1

Synopsis

11: Shows the world's largest landfill coping with 13,000 tons of solid waste per day; studies materials recycling and challenges posed by military nuclear waste. Environmental justice and NIMBY are underlying themes.

Title

Waste - Part 2

Synopsis

12: Explores environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and problems of civilian nuclear waste, and other hazardous materials.

Title

Sustaining earth

Synopsis

13: Introduces a trendsetting chain of factories in Denmark that sues waste from one industry as raw material for anothe (industrial symbiotics). Visits EcoVillage in Itheca, New York.

Production Company

Name

In-Tele-Com

Distributor

Name

Resources in Training & Education Ltd

Contact

Donald Hill, Mark Brady

Email

admin@riteltd.net

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Phone

01749 689027

Fax

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Notes

Probably no longer in business (2009)