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Preserving the Legacy DVD Series

Introduction to Environmental Technology

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U1500 | 10-12 | 1999 | 390 min. | ISBN(13):

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Part of a series of comprehensive television education, Preserving the Legacy: Introduction to Environmental Technology offers learners a dramatic visual exploration of this critical new field. Through the cameras eye, learners enjoy an intense, compelling view of global environmental problems and solutions. Produced in cooperation with the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, and with funding from the National Science Foundation, the series includes 13 half-hour episodes, which address, among other things, governmental processes, health effects of hazardous materials, ecology, the environmental compartments, occupational safety and health, waste, and pollution prevention.

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Preserving the Legacy DVD Series includes the following 13 videos.

U1507
Air
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Air examines the environmental threat to the thin band of life-supporting oxygen in the atmosphere around Earth, as first-world and developing world issues are debated. Learners study the treatment of emissions from coal-burning plants and look at the effect of fossil fuels on the air. This episode also highlights the application of stationary and mobile fuel cell technology.
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U1501
Delicate Balance, The: Part One
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The Delicate Balance—Part I investigates the origin of the current global environmental crisis, reviews environmental science from a historical perspective, and introduces the concept of sustainability.
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U1502
Delicate Balance, The: Part Two
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The Delicate Balance—Part II continues the opening lesson by looking at the role of population and the challenge of merging environmental and economic sustainability.
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U1505
Ecology
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Ecology examines a number of primary environmental concepts: the carbon cycle, the hydrologic cycle, and the food chain. Learners visit a man-made ecological habitat, and hear from its scientists.
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U1503
Force of Law, The
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The Force of Law looks at the way in which environmental laws are promulgated and enforced, and features interviews with legislators, lobbyists and scientists representing a wide range of viewpoint.
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U1509
Hazardous Materials
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Hazardous Materials surveys the use of hazardous substances and the ramifications of their illegal disposal into the environment.
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U1504
Health Effects of Hazardous Materials ...
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Health Effects of Hazardous Materials considers how chemicals that enter the environment can adversely impact human health, with toxicologists narrating two case studies that illustrate how science can discover the cause of some puzzling illnesses.
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U1510
Occupational Safety and Health
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Occupational Safety and Health depicts the struggle to improve workplace safety by looking at coal miners, scientists developing rocket engines, an industrial hygienist at a Boeing facility, and an OSHA safety inspection at a machine shop.
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U1506
Paths of Pollution
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Paths of Pollution defines and explains the four mediums—air, water, soil and biota (living material)—and presents a case study that demonstrates their interaction.
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U1513
Sustaining the Earth
10-12
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Sustaining the Earth introduces a trend setting chain of factories in Denmark that use waster from one industry as raw material for another (industrial symbiosis). Views will visit eco village in Itahaca, New York.
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U1511
Waste : Part One
10-12
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Demonstrates how the world's largest landfill in New York City copes with 13,000 tons of solid waste each day, introduces the concept of materials recycling, environmental justice, and explores the challenges presented by military-generated (WIPPS) nuclear waste.
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Waste : Part Two
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continues the exploration of such issues as environmental justice, the importance of materials recycling, and the problems of civilian nuclear waste, DDT and other hazardous waste materials.
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U1508
Water
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Water explores the international ramifications of water-related pollution problems, and explores the hardships and health risks caused by mismanagement of this precious resource.
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