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Sustainability Resource Library: Online Videos

This collection of resources will educate you about sustainability on both the local and global level.

Online Videos

Please submit video suggestions to info@starkscenes.org.

The Story of ....

Perhaps some of the most famous online videos raising awareness for the environment...

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Electronics

The Story of Cosmetics

The Story of Bottled Water

The Story of Cap & Trade

Online Videos - General Focus

Many more short videos are available on YouTube or at various environmental sites.  If you are searching for one on a specific topic, or would like to add one to our growing list, please let us know.

 

Sustainability Explained

Concise and to the point: the four "care instructions" for the planet, and us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NiTN0chj0

 

Who do you think produced this short?  What is on the other side of the issue?  What statements do you agree with?  Which do you think are not represented accurately?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ubxq33Q5to&NR=1

Rethink Sustainability

Message:  Human impact on Earth.  Inspiring change.  Embrace sustainability.  Individual actions can change the world!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9I3Q6-ZSTI

Sustainability at the Vancouver Winter Olympics (4 minutes)

Discover symbiotic relationships planned during construction for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

http://blogs.natlogic.com/friend/2010/04/sustainability_explained_in_2.html

Global Warming

“What is Global Warming?”  1.5 minutes  - Short videotape  http://videos.howstuffworks.com/howstuffworks/202-what-is-global-warming-video.htm

Introduction Article to Global Warming:  http://science.howstuffworks.com/global-warming.htm 

Sum Total: Being Green Isn’t New

Behind every statistic, there's a good story: facts and figures can add up to something greater than themselves.  Focus on green is not a new concept, national carbon footprints, water use, waste, recycling, etc…  Think and discuss the facts that are presented!  What do they mean to us here in Canton, Ohio?  By Newsweek.  (The video may show up on the second page of the article.)

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/12/george-will-earth-doesn-t-care-what-is-done-to-it.html?gt1=43002

Consumption – Chris Jordan

Photographic Artist Chris Jordan turns the statistics of consumerism into palpable images in his new photo series.  (10 minute video)

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/watch3.html  

One Simple Idea, 2 Minute Videos from CNN

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/category/one-simple-thing/

TERRA:  The Nature of our World

100 short films.  TERRA is a collaborative indie filmspace and laboratory explore the horizons of the natural world. 

http://www.lifeonterra.com/aboutus.php

Earth Days from PBS

Earth Days

It is now all the rage, but can you remember when everyone in America was not "Going Green"? Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement through the extraordinary stories of the era's pioneers.  Available online at: http://video.pbs.org/video/1463378089#

Contents (most chapters are 5 to 9 minutes long – total length is almost 2 hours):

·         Earth Days Introduction

·         The Decline of Conservation & Superabundance

·         Consequences of Development

·         Rachel Carson & Silent Spring

·         Poisoning the Planet, Effects of Consumerism

·         The Population Bomb

·         Stewards of the Planet

·         Changing Views of Earth from Space

·         The Birth of a Movement

·         The First Earth Day

·         The Limits of Growth

·         Threats to American Ways

·         Sustainable Living

·         The Next Steps

·         Summaries

·         Roundtable Discussion – Where are we now?

·         Credits