U.S. EPA REGION 4 OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION VIDEO CATALOG ------- U.S. EPA Region 4 Office of Public Affairs Environmental Education and Public Outreach Staff The video lending library is a service provided by EPA Region 4 to assist education agencies, schools, non-profit organizations, community based organizations, and state, local and tribal education agencies increase their ability to provide environmental education activities. There is no cost except for return mail. Only one copy of each video is maintained in the library. Therefore, we can only allow the viewer to retain the video for five days so that it may be distributed to others. Please help us by returning the video promptly. To borrow a video from the library please send your request in writing on letterhead paper to: U.S. EPA Region 4 Office of Public Affairs 100 Alabama Street, SW Atlanta, Georgia 30303 For additional information you may call 404-562-8327 The EPA is not responsible for the content or quality of the videos that it loans to eligible recipients. The content of the materials does not necessarily reflect the view or policies of the government, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or ------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REGION IV ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION VIDEO CATALOG October 1996 TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available A World In Our Backyard Wetlands 23:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC. LENGTH: AUDIENCE: All Things Are Connected Multi-media 12:36 minutes Grades 1 - 5 This video was produced in the natural world and incorporates footage of plants and animals in the wild, along with natural sounds and a moving narration. TITLE: America 'first - Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge - Threatened TOPIC: Habitat LENGTH: 17:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Description not available TITLE: Aquatic Ecosystems: Estuaries TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 This video shows how estuary's are formed and how life is governed by the tides. It also shows how these estuary's are endangered by human activity. TITLE: Aquatic Ecosystems: Freshwater TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 The three major freshwater ecosystems are described and how the special characteristics of each determines the type of life which is able to live there. ------- TITLE: Aquatic Ecosystems: Freshwater Wetlands TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 This video describes the major freshwater wetlands. It discusses how various wetlands exist in different climates. It also discusses how the type of wetlands determines the kinds of wildlife each contains. TITLE: Aquatic Ecosystems: Marine TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 The video discusses the three major marine ecosystems. Marine organisms are discussed in relation tho their specific needs and how the various ecosystems restrict organisms to a particular region or zone. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Between the Lines Other 08:00 minutes General Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Beyond the Forest Primeval Habitat 28:30 minutes Grades 9-12 Description not available TITLE: Big Apple, Hot Apple TOPIC: Solid waste LENGTH: 29:23 minutes AUDIENCE: General population A documentary of a dramatic emergency removal of radioactive/toxic waste at a site in the heart of New York City. ------- TITLE: TOPIC- LENGTH: AUDIENCE While focusing on the Greater Northern Cascades Eco-system of Washington and British Columbia, this video presents concepts which apply everywhere. Schools, colleges, public libraries and community organizations will find educational merit in the information provided in this program. Biodiversity, The Variety Of Life Other 42:30 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Filmed in IMAX by astronauts from five space shuttle missions, Blue Planet dramatically reveals the forces affecting Earth's balance: hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes and ultimately, humankind. Blue Planet Multi-media 42:00 minutes General population TITLE: Camp Wannagoma TOPIC: Wetlands LENGTH: 7:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 1 - 5 This video shows 4-H Camp Wannagoma which is a week-long day camp program focusing on environmental education. Camp Wannagoma is an innovative project focusing on non-point source pollution and the role of wetlands in protecting rivers and estuaries from such pollution. TITLE: Center for Forest Environmental Studies TOPIC: Habitat LENGTH: 10:55 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: CHEMTV OTHER 43:00 minutes Grades 9-12 CHEMTV is a springboard to teachers to show students how chemistry relates to daily life. TITLE: Clean Streets/Clean Beaches TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 16:49 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 Description not available ------- TITLE: Clean Streets/Clean Water TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 30:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Our nation's waters are under siege from a subtle, yet dangerous threat known as Nonpoint Source Pollution. Our ground water and surface water supplies are being contaminated by rainwater runoff which carries chemicals, soil, debris, and bacteria. But, nonpoint source pollution is a solvable problem. This video highlights results of successful projects in both urban and rural settings. Clean Water, Clear Choices Water Unknown General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Clean Water: Georgia's Treasure examines the status of surface and underground water supplies in the state. Clean Water: Georgia s Treasure Water 26:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE A celebration of the beauty of nature, this non-narrative program uses a classic concerto format to illustrate the devastating effect people have had on our planet's ecology. Concerto for the Earth Multi-media 16:00 minutes General population TITLE: Conservation: Saving Water TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6-8 This video gives a glimpse of what can and might happen in the future unless we act today to preserve our precious water supply. A visit to the ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This video is an interview of Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland, who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the issue in 1995. He is interviewed by Peyton E. Weary, M.D., President of the National Association of Physicians for the Environment (NAPE). Depletion of the Stratospheric Ozone Layer Air 30:00 minutes General Population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Development of Clean Water Standards Water 14:18 minutes General population TITLE: Development of Water Quality Criteria/Standards TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 14:18 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE The Disposal Dilemma deals with the problem of hazardous waste. Through interviews with environmentalists, industry representatives, and government spokesmen, the film looks at answers to a number of urgent questions. Disposal Dilemma, The Waste 26:00 minutes General population TITLE: Down in the Dumps TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 1:00:00 hour AUDIENCE: General population Down in the Dumps describes: what can be recycled; how the process works; and how a continual flow of trash impacts the environment. This insightful program provides some of the answers and creates a sense of urgency for addressing this issue. ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Downstream is a case study of a watershed that can serve as a model for student research. The viewer learns what a watershed is, how water is used for many purposes and why these often competing uses must be balanced to insure an adequate supply of clean water. Downstream Water 28:00 minutes General Population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Downstream: From the Mountains to the Ocean Water Unknown General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Multi-media 27:00 minutes Grades 1- 5 "e" is an educational video that accompanies the 4th through 6th grade units of the Think Earth Environmental Education Program. The video presentation contains two parts. In Part 1, "e" the environment's representative, who magically appears through a computer, presents Jeanie with severe problems facing the environment. In Part 2, Jeanie and her friend Mark discuss possible solutions with "e". They learn that all of us need to conserve natural resources, reduce waste, and minimize pollution. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: E is for Ecology Multi-media 10:50 minutes Grades 1 - 5 This video helps students to: discover that all living things depend upon each other; identify ways in which living things depend on the earth, the water, and the air; describe the operation of the water cycle, the air cycle, the food chain, and the life cycle; realize that the cycles in nature are connected and are necessary to plants and animals to exist; recognize the importance of recycling materials in the environment to protect the ecological balance. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Earth Academy 6 - 8 Other 10:37 minutes Grades 6-8 ------- TITLE: Earth Academy 9-12 TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 14:42 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE 7 Days to a Greener Planet illustrates that everybody has a role in cleaning up and keeping this planet's environment healthy. Projects and ideas to promote cleaner air, prevent water pollution, and develop Earth conscious life styles are highlighted. Earth Week: 7 Days to a Greener Planet Multi-media 10:50 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: El Programa De Superfund Waste Unknown General population Description not available. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE A thought-provoking video which may be an allegory on greed, a parody of life, or a death knell for our environment. Sea gulls swoop down to extract edible tidbits from a huge city trash dump. At a distance a lone sick bird limps, struggles, and finally dies while his fellows continue their raucous competition, as unaware of his suffering as they are of an ominous roar in the distance. End of One, The Multi-media 6:34 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Environment Multi-media 13:00 minutes Grades 9-12 Four ordinary people - a farmer, a businessman, a land developer, and a housewife - are taken from their homes in the middle of the night to a tribunal at which they are collectively charged with destruction of the environment. With arguments presented and the importance of the issue challenged, the task of evaluating humankind's guilt falls to the jury - the viewers themselves. ------- TITLE. TOPIC. LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Environment Multi-media 10:00 minutes Grades K - 5 This video is about everywhere, everything and everybody. "I wonder what it's got to do with me?" asks Answer Bird. Flying around the kingdom of "Could be you", Wizard and his friends are stunned by what they see: fish struggling in polluted water, forests destroyed, air filled with smoke and noise, and streets lined with litter. TITLE. TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Environment Multi-media 9-12 Description not available TITLE: Environmental Forest TOPIC: Habitat LENGTH: 10:55 AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Description not available. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Environmental Science II Multi-media Unknown General population TITLE: EPA Green Lights/Energy Economics TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 11:40 minutes AUDIENCE: General population This video features the U.S. EPA's Green Light Program, a partnership with America's business community to voluntarily use energy efficient lighting that saves energy and reduces pollution. ------- TITLE: Exploring the Ocean TOPIC: Water LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: General population This video provides a basic description of the oceans, how they are explored, and what resources can be found in them. The ocean floor, the plant/animal food chain, the ocean's storehouse of minerals and how they are deposited by the water cycle, and pollution of the ocean are discussed. TITLE: Fall Brings Changes TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 1 - 5 This video is a new musical version of a program about fall. I presents a catchy song and spectacular fall scenes. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This video provides an overview of the University of Florida's Training, Research and Education for Environmental Occupations (TREEO) Center located in Gainesville, Florida. Florida's Training Center Other 8:00 minutes General population TITLE: Fragile Earth/Environmental Equity and Justice TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 30:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. TITLE: Front Runner with Redwolf Comeback TOPIC: Other LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: Unknown Description not available. ------- TITLE: Garbage Explosion, The TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 13:50 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Americans create more garbage than any other people in the world. This video explains that our cities are running out of landfill space and presents alternate ways to manage waste, such a high temperature incineration, waste reduction, and recycling. The video also shows that household hazardous waste is a growing health threat because city landfills do not protect the environment from these toxic materials. TITLE: Garbage Tale: An Environmental Adventure TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 18:05 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 1-5 Every week it's Ernie's job to take the garbage out. As far as he's concerned, that's the end of it. But then one night... Here's a delightful fantasy which allows Emie to discover where his garbage really goes. TITLE: Garbage: The Movie TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 24:30 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 This program provides an informative look at the problem of the environment and solid waste, as well as some promising solutions. Our young host leads us to landfills and incinerators, to recycling plants and composing yards. We explore why landfills are closing, discover how the garbage crisis is creating pollution and search for the roots of the problem. We discover some hopeful solutions: recycling, composting, reducing, use, consumer choices and organized action. And we meet some young people who are making a difference. TITLE: Global Environment: Breath of Fresh Air, The TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 20 minutes AUDIENCE: 19:54 minutes Clean air is essential to all life, yet one fifth of the world's population breathe air that is hazardous. Fifty percent of air pollution is caused by pars and trucks burning fossil fuels. Much of this video was shot in Mexico City where geographical misfortune worsens the situation by trapping bad air. Intense sunlight then transforms the chemical-laden air into ozone which harms lungs and the atmosphere. ------- TITLE: Global Warming, Hot Times Ahead. TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 23:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Most scientists now agree that global warming will be with us in the next century - if it hasn't already started. What is this phenomenon? How has nature's cycle been upset by man's activities? Where will it lead, and what can governments, industry and you and I do to slow it down? Hosted by "Family Ties" star, Marc Price, this program explains what global warming is, why it is happening and the possible results. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This video provides an overview of the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, a hands-on environmental science and education program that links students, educators, and scientists from around the world in studying the global environment. Globe Overview Multi-media 10:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC LENGTH: AUDIENCE Going Green is a step-by-step guide to reducing the impact of household garbage on the environment. Going Green - Reducing Garbage Waste 22:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Gone With The Waste Waste 16:32 minutes General population TITLE: Green Bridges: An Environmental Series TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Description not available ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE The Greenhouse Effect investigates our misuses of the earth's resources. Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, which traps the sun's heat and raises the world's temperature. The impact on lea level, crop growth, and rainfall could be disastrous - for us and for all living things. This disturbing program addresses questions vital to our survival: What are the long-term effects of our insatiable appetite for generated power? How can we prevent environmental catastrophe? Greenhouse Effect, The Air 50:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Green Lights: Bright Investment Air 23:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This program provides a holistic perspective on the issue, discussing the possible contributing factors to global warming. Greenhouse Effect: To What Degree Air 22:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Groundwater Water 10:00 minutes Grades 6 - 8 The often puzzling concept of groundwater is graphically explained using a video game format. Students gain points by preventing groundwater pollution from industrial, agricultural and residential sources and thereby realize that preventing such pollution is something they need to do in their day-to- day lives. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Gulf of Mexico Treasure Quest Water 28:00 minutes General population ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This video shows how two communities; Niagra Falls, New York and the nomadic Sami of Norway, have struggled with the impact of industry on their lives. Handle With Care Other 26:00 minutes General Population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available: Harpeth River Project Water 7:10 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This video focuses on the growing U.S. and world-wide concern about the depletion of the ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere. It explains the possible reasons for the ozone depletion and the consequences to the environment. Hole in the Sky, The Air 15:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE How Much Is Enough shows how Mexico City and North America differ in their consumption and the effects of a growing population on resources. How Much Is Enough Other 26:00 General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. If Everyone Lived Like Me Multi-media Unknown General population TITLE: Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools: Ventilation Basics TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 15:06 minutes AUDIENCE: Adult Description not available ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This guide explore the most common causes of indoor air pollution: radon, secondhand smoke, pesticides and chemicals, combustion gases, biological contaminants, lead and asbestos. Inside Story: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality, The Air 22:48 Minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Into the Wild Other 40:00 minutes Grades K - 5 This video chronicles efforts to help endangered species. The materials introduce students in grades 3 to 5 to the problem of endangered species: what endangered species are, why they are endangered, and what can be done to help. The video is divided into three segments. Segment 1, whooping cranes; Segment 2, red wolves; Segment 3, a wrap-up. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Introduction to Water Quality Standards Water 13:25 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: ID NUMBER This video tape introduces a recreation of the noted naturalist John Muir. John Muir, An Introduction Other 10:00 minutes General population EV0141 TITLE: John Muir: The 1000 Mile Walk TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 1 hour 10:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General John Muir: mountaineer, writer, naturalist, glacial geologist, inventor, founder of the Sierra Club, father of Yosemite and gentle soul is characterized in this video. ------- Keeping Nature In Balance Multi-media 28:00 minutes General population This documentary features seven award-winning cattlemen and the steps their families are taking to ensure the land is productive for this and future generations. You'll see how these cattlemen have incorporated sound conservation practices into their successful cattle businesses. Kids for Saving the Earth Multi-media Unknown Grades 1 - 5 EV0040 Description not available. TITLE: Lead Poisoning Public Service Announcements TOPIC: Air LENGTH 55 minutes AUDIENCE: General population ID NUMBER: EV0107 Description not available. TITLE: Legal Winds of Change TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 2 hours 30:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population ID NUMBER: EV0041 Description not available. TITLE: Life on the Edge: Gulf of Mexico Program TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 19:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. TITLE: TOPIC LENGTH: AUDIENCE: TITLE: TOPIC LENGTH: AUDIENCE: ID NUMBER: ------- TITLE: Living Things Depend on Each Other TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 11:00 AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Beginning with the first meal of the day, the video shows us how many different living things we depend on. Many plants and animals furnish our food, clothing and shelter. Animals, too, depend on plants as well as other animals. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This program shows how the North Sea fishing industry and Ethiopia's agriculture are combining traditional knowledge with modem techniques to reach sustain ability in the oceans and fields. Loaves and Fishes Other 26:00 minutes General population TITLE: Next Generation, The TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 18:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 The Next Generation is an approachable yet poignant look at the menace of gill net fishing as seen through the eyes of a child. This video which features beautiful underwater photography, can serve as a springboard for classroom discussions. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Not Ours to Waste Unknown 9:17 minutes Unknown TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Our Legacy: Franklin High School Other 15:30 minutes Grades 9-12 TITLE: Ozone: Double Trouble TOPIC: Air LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Description not available ------- Partners With Nature Multi-media 27:00 General population This documentary features seven award winning cattlemen. You will see how they have incorporated sound conservation practices into their successful cattle businesses to earn them an Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen's Association. People Making a Difference Water 20:35 minutes General population Description not available. TITLE: Planet Earth: Handle With Care TOPIC: Multi-media LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. TITLE: Plight of the Dogwood TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 5.08 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Description not available TITLE: Pointless Pollution: America's Water Crisis TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 27:40 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Description not available TITLE: Presentation Excellence/Walter Cronkite TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 1 hour 17:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General This video, hosted by Walter Cronkite, provides skills for effective public speaking. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH AUDIENCE: TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: ------- TITLE: Problems of Conservation: Acid Rain TOPIC: Other LENGTH. 17:36 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 The industrialization of North America and Europe, as well as the development of the automobile, has produced a number of gasses that turn the clouds downwind from the factories into a corrosive acid. These clouds can be carried by the wind for hundreds of miles as they produce acid rain and snow, causing drastic changes in the forests, streams and lakes in their path. This video illustrates the way acid rain has damaged trees and reduced populations of fish and other animals. It also details the ways in which we can make significant reductions in acid rain. TITLE: Problems of Conservation: Air TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 18:13 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 We burn coal, gasoline, and other petroleum products for a number of reasons: for automobiles, power plants, smelters and other industrial purposes. But when fuels are burned, they cause different forms of air pollution, including acid rain and the excess of carbon dioxide that is causing greenhouse warming in our climate. This video explains the causes of these serious environmental problems. TITLE: Problems of Conservation: Water TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 16.16 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Fresh water is one of the most precious resources on the earth. As citizens of the planet earth, we face the danger of destroying this resource by overusing it and polluting to the point that it is unfit for use by human beings and wildlife. This video illustrates examples of both of these conservation problems. Early sequences focus on the effect of diverting large amounts of a lake's water supply to meet the needs of a major city. The result is the virtual destruction of the lake. This video also shows how water can be treated in order to return it to a pure state. TITLE. Problems of Conservation: Wildlife TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 12:57 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 This video focuses on current ecological efforts to preserve our vanishing wildlife population. It provides an explanation of man's role in, and responsibility to, the ecosystem, the delicate network of natural balance that links all forms of life. ------- TITLE: Protecting the Web TOPIC: Other LENGTH: 14:00 AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 Using the metaphor of a spider's web, this video helps young people understand that all living things are part of the earth's ecosystem and that the choices they make in every day life can help or hurt other living creatures. TITLE: Racing to Save the Planet TOPIC: Multi-media LENGTH: 25:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Racing to Save the Planet is a video produced for young minority students designed to increase environmental career awareness and encourage the pursuit of careers in the environmental sciences an in engineering. This video challenges minority youth to play an active role in protecting the environment. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This animated program follows Recycle Rex and his prehistoric friends as they leam about waste management and recycling firsthand. Rex and his friends discover that by recycling their trash, reducing their waste, and reusing their toys, clothes, and household items they will minimize the need for new landfills. Recycle Rex Waste 10:00 minutes Grades 1 - 5 TITLE: Recvcle That Trash TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: Grades 1 - 5 Recycle That Trash chronicles the classroom project of one teacher and her students as they visit landfills, transfer stations, and recycling centers. The students collect their own garbage and follow it on its journey from trash back to landfill, realizing when they throw something away at home, they are really throwing something away into the environment. TITLE: Recycle This! Rock 'n & Roll & Recycling TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: Grades 1 - 5 This video, set to rock and roll music, emphasizes that recycling helps protect the environment, save energy, reduce waste and conserve resources. Paper, plastic, aluminum and glass can be recycled. ------- TITLE: Recycle Center: Hands, Heart, and Mind, The TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Recycling is Fun Waste 12:00 minutes Grades 6 - 8 Three interracial 8-10 year olds investigate the properties of recycling, reducing and reusing, unambiguously demonstrated in visits to a landfill, a recycling center, and a supermarket. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This documentary features state of the art recycling techniques including curbside pick-up services, drop-off recycling centers, materials separation and processing into new products. Recycling: Waste Into Wealth Waste 29:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Reteam, The Waste 25:00 minutes Grades 1 - 5 When a mean Garbage Monster tries to take over your turf, who're you gonna call?... The RE-TEAM! This entertaining educational adventure introduces REduce, REuse, & REcycle, a trio of environmental superheros who help a group of children confront a scary monster that threatens to take over their clubhouse. Using their special powers, The RE-TEAM teaches kids the fun ways to fight trash. TITLE: Return to Sender: A Story About Littering TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population ID NUMBER: EV0141 The program's message emphasizes that littering makes a negative impact on neighborhoods, schools and our communities overall. It reinforces a positive anti-littering attitude, and students become aware of the need to attitude, and students become aware of the need to take responsibility for their communities and planet. ------- TITLE: Rivers and Watersheds TOPIC: Water LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Road Ahead, Natural Gas Vehicles in Georgia Air 1020 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC LENGTH: AUDIENCE This video discusses alternative automotive fuels. Road To Clean Air, The Air 11:51 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE At one time, orangutans were common in rain forests throughout Southeast Asia, but this species, like several others, is now endangered because large parts of the world's rain forests have been cut down. This program discusses several other endangered species and solutions to saving them. Saving Endangered Species Multi-media 12:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Why would a baby pygmy sperm whale beach herself on the New Jersey shore? Watch as volunteers try to determine what was wrong with Inky and their desperate struggle to save her life. Saving Inky Other 15:50 minutes General population TITLE: Second Creek, Second Chance TOPIC: Water LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Description not available ------- TITLE: Severe Abuse Test TOPIC: Air LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Sevier County Composting and Recycling Waste 12 57 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This program calls attention to the potential value of the many species whose characteristics have not yet been studied. Attention is given to the consequences of rely8ing on a limited number of species as resources. Sharing the Earth: Preserving Biodiversity Habitat 12:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE This program demonstrates how species become endangered when populations are unable to renew their numbers. Attention is given to the consequences of inbreeding, and examples of captive breeding are presented as insurance against extinction, although not a substitute for protecting habitats. Sharing the Earth: Saving Endangered Species Habitat 13:00 minutes General population TITLE: Smogbusters TOPIC: Air LENGTH: 26:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population This video shows how two cities, Cubatao, Brazil and Los Angeles, California are trying to reverse the destruction of the atmosphere. ------- TITLE: Soap and Detergent TOPIC: Toxics LENGTH: 2 hours 36:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Songbirds and Biodiversity Other 14:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Spring Brings Changes Other 14:00 minutes Grades 1 - 5 This delightful program is filled with fields of flowers, industrious bees, migrating birds, gentle rain and new bom animals - guaranteed to make you want to romp through the grass. No adult narration. TITLE: Stream of Conscience: Natural Solutions for Clean Water TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 15:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Description not available TITLE: Storm Water Pollution Prevention TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 19:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Description not available TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available Surface Water, Ground Water, Water Conservation Water 27:00 minutes Grades K-5 ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Surface Water Water 12:00 minutes Grades 6 - 8 A comprehensive look at oceans, lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands and the different kinds of pollution to which these water bodies are subjected. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Taking the Waters Wetlands 26:00 minutes General population Taking the Waters explores the conflicts between preserving important wetlands and utilizing water for basic human needs. TITLE: The Gulf of Mexico - America's Shining Sea TOPIC: Water LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: Unknown Description not available. TITLE: The Monk, The Trees, and the Concrete Jungle TOPIC: Habitat LENGTH: 27:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grade 7 - Adult Tropical rainforests are home to over 75% of the world's species and the source of many of the drugs we take to combat a host of illnesses. Loose the rainforests and we loose the biological foundations of life on earth. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. This is Superfund Waste Unknown General population TITLE: Today's Environment - Discovery Channel TOPIC: Multi-media LENGTH: Unknown AUDIENCE: General population Description not available. ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Tomorrow's Energy Today showcases exciting, new energy options that were once considered futuristic but, in fact, are in use today. Other renewable energy options featured use of the sun to neutralize hazardous wastes, to formulate materials, or to simply provide indoor lighting. The video also highlights the use of com and other plants to produce ethanol, a reliable alternative transportation fuel. Tomorrow's Energy Today Other 23:00 General population TITLE: TOPIC. LENGTH: AUDIENCE Tomorrow's Energy Today: The Energy Efficiency Option shows how using more efficient lighting, improved wall insulation and windows that insulate dramatically reduces energy use. The video also highlights new energy-efficient manufacturing processes and vehicles that run on electricity or a combination of fuels Tomorrow's Energy Today: The Energy Efficiency Option Other 26.00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Because it floats and is enormously durable, plastic, in its many forms, persists for years in the marine environment, killing wildlife trapped by it and killing wildlife who mistake it for food. This haunting film documents the mounting problems associated with plastic waste. Troubled Waters: Plastic in Marine Environments Waste 30:00 minutes General population TITLE: Understanding Ecology: What is an Ecosystem? TOPIC: Habitat LENGTH: 10:45 AUDIENCE: The destruction of one part of an ecosystem reverberates to weaken the whole. The pollution or drought that kills a tree affects all the life that depends on that tree for food and shelter. Viewers of this program leam that lesson in a most powerful way. ------- TITLE: Understanding Ecology: What is a Habitat? TOPIC: Habitat LENGTH: 12:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Many things can change an animal's habitat - fire, weather,, overgrazing. Throughout the years, habitats change and one animal community replaces another. People change habits, too, and animals that cannot adapt to these changes become endangered. TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE In this video, you will learn how seven cattlemen have unlocked some of nature's secrets by working daily to care for the natural resources that provide for their livelihoods. These seven stewards are award winning cattlemen who are learning to use nature's elements - wind, rain and fire - to insure that the land continues to be productive for future generations. They are learning to work with, not against Mother Nature. Unlocking Nature s Secrets Multi-media 27:00 minutes General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Waste Water Water 12:00 minutes Grades 6 - 8 If given time, through physical, biological and chemical processes, nature is able to clean polluted water. Waste water treatment is essentially humankind's way of speeding up these processes. Students are introduced to stages of the waste water treatment process and learn what must be done to make sludge safe for disposal. TITLE: Water: A Treasure in Trouble TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 14:00 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 6 - 8 Description not available TITLE: Water Cycle, The TOPIC: Water LENGTH: 13:32 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades 9-12 Stunning visuals illustrate the importance of endless exchange of water between land, atmosphere, and the sea. Evaporation, condensation and the effects of the water cycle on the climate and the land are closely examined. ------- TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Water's Going On - Sevier County Water Unknown General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Wetland Watchers As Teachers Water Unknown General population TITLE: TOPIC: LENGTH: AUDIENCE Description not available. Wetland Watch: Student Congress Water 26:18 minutes General population TITLE: White Hole, The TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 10:00 minutes AUDIENCE: General population This amusing animated film is a wonderful commentary on our throwaway society. One day as kids play in the park, a black hole as big as a basketball suddenly appears. The hole starts gobbling up all of the waste. All seems fine until one day a white hole appears... and starts regurgitating the waste. TITLE: Without Borders TOPIC: LENGTH: 96:08 minutes AUDIENCE: Description not available TITLE: TOPIC. LENGTH: AUDIENCE: Yakety Yak - Take It Back Waste Unknown Grades 9-12 Description not available. ------- TITLE: Zort Sorts, A Story About Recycling TOPIC: Waste LENGTH: 15:22 minutes AUDIENCE: Grades K - 5 Intergalactic reports of earth's garbage problems have sent Zort from his home planet with an important mission: To learn how earthlings are dealing with trash. If he succeeds, this loveable (if bumbling) emissary will help to preserve the natural beauty of his own planet, Zendor. ( • "N DATE DUE ' ------- |