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Irretrievable Juggernauts - Part 2 - Carbon Nanotubes |
| Carbon nanotubes are long, thin cylinders which, under a microscope, look identical to asbestos fibers. The general public is largely unaware that carbon nanotubes (and other similar materials) are being increasingly used in a wide range of products, ahead of research into their health implications. |
| Date: 2009-08-29 12:20:56 - Added by: george |
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Irretrievable Juggernauts - Part 1 - Asbestos |
| This is Part 1 of two videos demonstrating how the lure of commerce tramples on common sense. As the terrible saga of asbestos diseases continues to unfold it\'s surely time we embraced the precautionary principle and began to apply it to technologies currently in development. |
| Date: 2009-08-29 12:15:51 - Added by: george |
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Television as an instrument of mass education |
| An engaging speech on the wasted educational opportunity of modern television given by David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow from the George Clooney film, \'Good Night, And Good Luck\'. |
| Date: 2009-07-11 14:09:04 - Added by: george |
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Permaculture - Developing Models of Sustainable Aid |
| Geoff Lawton, a founding director of the Permaculture Research Institute explains concept of sustainable aid and the Institute’s vision for an integrated worldwide network of Permaculture ‘self-help’ training centres for small communities. |
| Date: 2009-07-10 07:59:21 - Added by: george |
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Questioning the Paradigms of Modern Education |
| Sir Ken Robinson’s informative and often humorous address regarding the way modern, largely commerce driven education systems stifle creativity in the individual student. |
| Date: 2009-07-03 09:14:58 - Added by: george |
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HOME (Trailer) - Humanity at Home – Do We Trash or Treasure? |
| This video is a standout documentary. With a simple and compelling narrative and often stunning footage it engages the senses, the heart and the mind in the story of humanity and our relationship with our earthly home from the very beginning to the present day. It is hard to go away from this film and consider that ‘business as usual’ is still a realistic option. |
| Date: 2009-06-22 12:50:38 - Added by: admin |
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Explaining the Impossibility of ‘Sustainable Growth’ |
| Global growth in population and resource consumption is peaking out and about to force dramatic changes (if not collapse) upon our current way of life. For anyone who doesn’t yet understand the simple arithmetic, this video by Dr. Albert Bartlett is a must see. |
| Date: 2009-06-22 11:53:21 - Added by: admin |
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The albedo effect - a micro-demonstration |
| As well as an explanation of the accelerating seismic activity of the Greenland icesheet, this video contains a good micro-demonstration of the differential rates of solar warming for dark and light surfaces, explaining the global albedo effect – an important concept in understanding the mechanics of potential runaway global warming. |
| Date: 2009-06-22 11:51:45 - Added by: admin |
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Glaciologists on the cold front of ice-melt research. |
| A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution field study investigating the behaviour of Greenland’s ice-bed as it responds to local warming. Focuses on the phenomenon of surface lakes formed during the summer melt and their sudden catastrophic draining which scientists fear is accelerating the break-up of the Greenland icesheet. |
| Date: 2009-06-22 11:43:16 - Added by: admin |
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