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Kate Raworth, Senior Researcher at Oxfam Great Britain explores the question of what it would take to achieve global ‘green growth’ with equity.
In June 2012, ‘Welcome to the Anthropocene’ opened the UN’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. The summit was the largest UN meeting to date. A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of...
Large urban cities consume large amounts of resources and create vast amounts of waste that needs to be dealt with. For decades little or no concern was paid to this vital issue, but now there is a much...
This programme focuses on the different ways of making sustainable buildings for the future in California. The greening of Google and the opening of the California Academy of Sciences also show us how...
An ongoing series of video podcasts, each 5 to 8 minutes long, highlighting how people have come together to build their own homes, grow their own food, and create lively and sustainable communities....
This 2007 film looks at Glasgow in the light of urban regeneration and rebranding. The programme talks to architects, developers, local residents and civic leaders. It explores the causes and effects of...
Examines the environmental dangers threatening the planet but looks forward in hope rather than despair. Begins by looking at the effects of the industrial revolution and goes on to discuss the impact of...
In June 2000, the world media gave extensive coverage to the flooding of the Euphrates River behind a dam in southeast Turkey. As the waters rose, Zeugma, an important Roman city containing high quality...
Examines sustainable development, looking at changes in the way people think about their physical environment and how urbanisation needs to be based more on natural processes and structures.
Uses three case studies to illustrate elements of sustainability in design: 1) the smart car - initially a joint venture between Mercedes and Swatch, the car is designed for maximum economy of space and...
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