Sustainability & Communities

Videos cover sustainable and livable communities (both in the US and around the world), smart growth, sustainable business, industrial ecology, "The Natural Step," consumption patterns and choices, "green planning" for sustainable economic development, watershed, natural land, and agricultural land issues related to urban development, and population growth. More information here.

Land Use & Smart Growth

Videos cover sprawl and its impacts, greenbelt preservation, the energy impacts of land use choices, smart growth, neighborhood and community livability, citizen efforts to protect wild lands from urban and industrial development and roadbuilding, watershed protection, lowland threats from rising seas, recycling vacant urban lands as gardens, coastal land protection, and permaculture. More information here.

Global Warming & Air Quality

Videos cover global warming and the lands threatened by rising sea levels, whistleblower rights, the destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, toxic air pollutants, citizen action by community and neighborhood groups against air polluters and to protect children, non-polluting or less polluting energy and transportation options, and the role of land use in reducing air pollution. More information here.

Water & Wastewater

Videos cover the history of water issues and conflicts, how drinking water systems work to provide quality drinking water, watershed protection, preventive alternatives to expensive water treatment systems, river and riparian corridor protection methods, protecting coastal and shoreline areas, the threats posed by rising sea levels, and whistleblower rights. More information here.

Renewable Energy & Fossil Fuels

Videos cover the potential for a transition to clean renewable power, the energy impacts of our throw-away society, the energy implications of land use decisions, the impacts of global warming, how automobiles became so dominant in our transportation system, and the potential energy benefits of green building and sustainable community planning. More information here.

Transportation Alternatives

Videos cover planning for walkable and transit-served development, how compact design can shorten trips, improve transit feasibility, and create more livable neighborhoods, how and why our communities became dependent on automobiles, alternative transportation systems in use around the world, and how renewable power can be used in transportation. More information here.

Solid Waste & Recycling

Videos cover urban and rural recycling programs, innovators who are creating recycling businesses and accompanying job opportunities, the energy wasted when materials are buried in landfills rather than recycled, recycling and reuse by industrial companies, how we can better manage our household hazardous wastes, and biomass energy and composting alternatives. More information here.

Toxic & Hazardous Materials

Videos cover the serious but preventable health hazards of lead, toxics in air pollutants and the efforts of neighborhood groups to protect their children and themselves, reducing toxics risks at home and at work, the impact of toxics on coastal ecosystems, whistleblower rights, chemicals that destroy the ozone layer, and toxic threats in our drinking water. More information here.

Pollution Prevention

Videos cover preventing contaminated runoff within watersheds that are supplying drinking water, industrial process alternatives to reduce pollution discharges in wastewater, reducing risks from pesticides, generating energy from clean and renewable sources, and reducing health risks in homes and businesses by using less-toxic or non-toxic alternatives. More information here.

Green Design & Building

Videos cover the techniques, procedures and equipment needed to construct solid walls using rammed earth, incorporation of solar energy in new building projects, design of a health science center to be one of the most ecologically friendly large scale buildings ever constructed, and the use of recycled and reclaimed materials in new construction projects. More information here.

Urban Greening

Videos cover community gardening projects, urban permaculture methods, watershed protection, protection of coastal and shoreline areas, the value and beauty of establishing greenbelts, conservation and protection of rivers, streams, creeks and riparian zones, efforts to save wildlands and viewsheds, and the protection of agricultural land from urban sprawl and development. More information here.