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The Resource American experience : growing environmental awareness, Becoming green, (DVD)

American experience : growing environmental awareness, Becoming green, (DVD)

Label
American experience : growing environmental awareness, Becoming green
Title
American experience
Title remainder
growing environmental awareness
Title part
Becoming green
Title variation
  • Becoming green
  • Growing environmental awareness
Title variation remainder
growing environmental awareness
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Car of the future: NPR's Car talk co-hosts Tom Magliozzi and brother Ray examine America's four-wheeled future, exploring everything from a Detroit auto show to the homebuilders of Boston's AltWheels Festival, from a hydrogen-powered bus fleed in Iceland to a green think tank in Colorado
  • Saved by the sun: Examines efforts to make solar power more efficient and affordable, from individuals installing solar panels on their roofs to industrial-scale projects in the Mojave desert featuring massive arrays of mirrors. Also looks at Germany's goal to produce thirty percent of its electricty from renewable sources by 2020
  • What's up with the weather?: Examines recent changes in weather patterns around the world, attempting to discover whether they are natural, temporary glitches in the global climate or the result of global warming
  • Rachel Carson's silent spring: Examines Rachel Carson and her book, Silent spring, published in 1962, an exposé of the chemical industry's unregulated use of DDT
Related
Member of
Cataloging source
VJA
Characteristic
videorecording
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
  • Frontline (Television program)
  • Nova (Television program)
  • American experience (Television program)
Dewey number
333.72
Language note
  • Closed-captioned. (v.1-3)
  • Audio-described (v.1-2)
LC call number
  • GE195
  • QH541
LC item number
  • .B443 2008
  • .B3985 2008
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
WGBH Video (Firm)
Runtime
277
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Carson, Rachel
  • Automobiles
  • Automobiles
  • Solar energy
  • Global warming
  • Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
  • Global temperature changes
  • Fossil fuels
  • Meteorology
  • Climatology
  • Long-range weather forecasting
  • Biologists
  • Environmentalists
  • Science writers
  • Pesticides
  • Pesticides
  • Pesticides and wildlife
  • Insect pests
  • Environmental health
  • Documentary television programs
  • Science television programs
  • Biographical television programs
  • Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
  • Videodiscs for people with visual disabilities
  • Green living
Technique
live action
Label
American experience : growing environmental awareness, Becoming green, (DVD)
Link
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/
Instantiates
Publication
Note
v. 1-2 originally broadcast on the television program Nova; v. 3 originally broadcast as a Nova/Frontline television production; v.4 originally broadcast on the television program American experience
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Contents
  • v.1.
  • Car of the future
  • v. 2.
  • Solar energy: saved by the sun
  • v. 3.
  • Global warming: what's up with the weather?
  • v. 4.
  • Rachel Carson's Silent spring
Control code
ocn226300542
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Full screen & widescreen.
Extent
4 videodiscs (277 min.)
Isbn
9781593758073
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
sd., col.
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (OCoLC)226300542
  • (OCoLC)232150314
System details
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; (4 x 3 ) full screen presentation (v.3-4); letterboxed (v.2) or 16:9 anamorphic (v.1); Dolby digital
Video recording format
DVD
Label
American experience : growing environmental awareness, Becoming green, (DVD)
Link
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/
Publication
Note
v. 1-2 originally broadcast on the television program Nova; v. 3 originally broadcast as a Nova/Frontline television production; v.4 originally broadcast on the television program American experience
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Contents
  • v.1.
  • Car of the future
  • v. 2.
  • Solar energy: saved by the sun
  • v. 3.
  • Global warming: what's up with the weather?
  • v. 4.
  • Rachel Carson's Silent spring
Control code
ocn226300542
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Full screen & widescreen.
Extent
4 videodiscs (277 min.)
Isbn
9781593758073
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
sd., col.
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (OCoLC)226300542
  • (OCoLC)232150314
System details
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; (4 x 3 ) full screen presentation (v.3-4); letterboxed (v.2) or 16:9 anamorphic (v.1); Dolby digital
Video recording format
DVD

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