Energy Alternatives and the Environment
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The Energy Alternative
VHS £29.99 ex Vat + £4.50 p&p while stocks last
Content: 65 minutes of video divided into 8 video units
Activities: 40 printable pages
Suitability: Key Stages 3-5, Geography, Science, Critical Thinking
The Western world has grown usend to cheap and plentiful energy. The Energy Alternative examines the environmental costs of industrial development. How do we encourage energy efficiency? What opportunities are there for energy 'savings'? How do we enable sustainable development in western and developing countries…
Eight video units cover the following areas:
- Future Energy: differences in energy requirements between industrial and developing countries.
- Energy Supply: the 'supply' side of energy planning assumes massive expansion.
- Energy Demand: the 'end-use' approach - 'it's cheaper to save a watt of electricity than it is to generate an extra watt…'
- Case study-California: low energy solutions but availability of cheap energy threatens these changes.
- Case study–Sweden: the nuclear programme has stopped. Priorities include hydro, combined heat and power, bio energy using waste from rubbish and timber chippings.
- Energy issues developing world: energy is being 'saved' in the industrial world but are those savings being passend on to the developing world?
- Case study–Zimbabwe: steady streams of firewood are hard to ensure. The women of Dema village are developing a fuel efficient stove.
- Case study–Guarat India: energy shortages require alternative solutions: bio-gas from camel dung etc.
Includes data sheets, global energy flows, global sources of energy, carbon cycle diagram, greenhouse effect model data, projected energy consumption by country, and a wide range of stimulating classroom activities.
Bangladesh
VHS £29.99 ex Vat + £4.50 p&p while stocks last
Content: 50 minutes 11 video units
Activities: 40 pages of notes
Suitability: Key Stages 3/4, Geography, Science.
Bangladesh hits the world headlines when floods and disaster strike. It is portrayed as a country impoverished by over-population and a soaring birthrate.
But there is another side to Bangladesh: a people with a strong self-identity inhabiting a country of rich and fertile land.
This superbly filmed video illustrates the following case studies:
- the impact of the rivers and flood plains on the lives of the people
- deforestation versus geology in the Himalayas
- the social and economic impact of aid
- an evaluation of experiments to promote economic development
- the geography of a developing country.
Safari
VHS £29.99 ex Vat + £4.50 p&p while stocks last
Content: 50 minutes 6 video units
Activities: 26 pages of notes and
Suitability: Key Stages 3-4, Geography, Science, Critical Thinking
Tourism and leisure activities are attracted to areas of great environmental beauty. But the tourist industry and its related activities can do harm, even threatening destruction of the attraction itself unless carefully managed.
Safari was filmed in Kenya. The written material which accompanies it, provides a detailed economic study and geographical overview of Kenya. The video clips and activities explore the impact of tourism on the ecosystem of a savanna grassland, and examine the social and economic issues surrounding the safari industry.
Topics covered include:
- safari parks
- the tourist trail (hotels, balloons, mini buses)
- people of the Masai Mara
- Mombassa and coastal developments
- marine tours and the coastal reef
The conflicting demands of tourism and conservation are explored in a way that can be easily developed into an examination of the tourism industry of other countries.
The Question Of Nuclear Power
VHS £29.99 ex Vat + £4.50 p&p while stocks last
Content: 60 minutes 7 Units
Activities: 43 printed pages
Suitability: Key Stages 3-5, Geography, Science, Critical Thinking
The Question of Nuclear Power contains "ready to use" lessons exploring the social, environmental, economic and moral questions surrounding nuclear power.
It assumes a basic knowledge of nuclear fission and how a nuclear power station works.
The video clips include:
- interviews with Britain's chief scientist during the development of Britain's nuclear power industry and with a safety scientist involved in assessing accident risk
- investigation of the causes and impacts of the historic accidents at Windscale UK (now renamed Sellafield), Three Mile Island USA, and Chernobyl
- investigative reporting of the human and environmental impacts of radioactive waste disposal into the Irish Sea
- a documentary look at alternative energy products in USA and Australia using solar and wind power.