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The Resource Becoming green : growing environmental awareness, WGBH Educational Foundation

Becoming green : growing environmental awareness, WGBH Educational Foundation

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Summary
  • Car of the future (disc 1): 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 (disc 2): 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? (disc 3): 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 (disc 4): Examines Rachel Carson and her book, Silent spring, published in 1962, an exposé of the chemical industry's unregulated use of DDT
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
4 videodiscs (277 min.)
Note
Disc 1-2 originally broadcast on the television program Nova; disc 3 originally broadcast as a Nova/Frontline television production; disc 4 originally broadcast on the television program American experience
Contents
  • disc 1.
  • Car of the future
  • disc 2.
  • Solar energy: saved by the sun
  • disc 3.
  • Global warming: what's up with the weather?
  • disc 4
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Isbn
9781593758073
Instance
Label
Becoming green : growing environmental awareness
Title
Becoming green
Title remainder
growing environmental awareness
Statement of responsibility
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributor
Cinematographer
Composer
Director
Editor of moving image work
Host
Narrator
Producer
Screenwriter
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Car of the future (disc 1): 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 (disc 2): 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? (disc 3): 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 (disc 4): Examines Rachel Carson and her book, Silent spring, published in 1962, an exposé of the chemical industry's unregulated use of DDT
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videorecording
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  • Frontline (Television program)
  • Nova (Television program)
  • American experience (Television program)
Credits note
  • Car of the Future (disc 1): NOVA Production by New Wrinkle, Inc. ; written and directed by Joseph Seamans ; produced by Joseph Seamans, Janet Driscoll Smith ; edited by David Cohen ; director of photography, Mark Knobil
  • Saved by the sun (disc 2): Steven Latham Production for WGBH/NOVA ; produced by Steven Latham, Larry Klein, Evan I. Schwartz ; written by Larry Klein and Evan I. Schwartz ; edited by David Espar ; directed by Steven Latham
  • What's up with the weather? (disc 3): written, produced and directed by Jon Palfreman ; editor, James Rutenbeck ; original music, Robert Secret ; Frontline/NOVA coproduction with the Palfreman Film Group
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (disc 4): writer and producer, Neil Goodwin ; editor, Michel Chalufour ; music composed by Sheldon Mirowitz ; Cinematographers, Rick Brandt [and others] ; a Peace River Films production
Dewey number
333.72
Language note
  • Closed-captioned. (discs 1-3)
  • Audio-described (discs 1-2)
LC call number
GE195
LC item number
.B443 2008
PerformerNote
  • Car of the Future (disc 1): hosted by Tom and Ray Magliozzi ; narrated by John Lithgow
  • Saved by the sun (disc 2): narrated by Lance Lewman
  • What's up with the weather? (disc 3): narrator, Will Lyman
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (disc 4): narrator, Alex Chadwick ; Rachel Carson readings by Meryl Streep
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1948-
  • 1945-
  • 1947-
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  • Seamans, Joe
  • Smith, Janet Driscoll
  • Latham, Steven
  • Schwartz, Evan I.
  • Klein, Larry
  • Palfreman, Jon
  • Goodwin, Neil
  • Magliozzi, Tom
  • Magliozzi, Ray
  • Lyman, Will
  • Lithgow, John
  • Lewman, Lance
  • Streep, Meryl
  • Chadwick, Alex
  • Brandt, Rick
  • Cohen, David
  • Knobil, Mark
  • Espar, David
  • Rutenbeck, James
  • Chalufour, Michel
  • Secret, Robert
  • Mirowitz, Sheldon
  • New Wrinkle, Inc
  • Steven Latham Productions
  • Palfreman Film Group
  • Peace River Films
  • WGBH Educational Foundation
  • WGBH Video (Firm)
Runtime
277
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  • 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
  • Biographical television programs
  • Automobiles
  • Automobiles
  • Biographical television programs
  • Biologists
  • Climatology
  • Environmental health
  • Environmentalists
  • Fossil fuels
  • Global temperature changes
  • Global warming
  • Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
  • Insect pests
  • Long-range weather forecasting
  • Meteorology
  • Pesticides and wildlife
  • Pesticides
  • Pesticides
  • Science writers
  • Solar energy
  • United States
Technique
live action
Label
Becoming green : growing environmental awareness, WGBH Educational Foundation
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Disc 1-2 originally broadcast on the television program Nova; disc 3 originally broadcast as a Nova/Frontline television production; disc 4 originally broadcast on the television program American experience
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • disc 1.
  • Car of the future
  • disc 2.
  • Solar energy: saved by the sun
  • disc 3.
  • Global warming: what's up with the weather?
  • disc 4
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Control code
ocn226300542
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Extent
4 videodiscs (277 min.)
Isbn
9781593758073
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
783421423596
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • WG42359
  • WG42439SL
  • WG41709SL
  • WG31639SL
  • WG42019SL
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o226300542
  • (OCoLC)226300542
System details
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; (4 x 3) full screen presentation (discs 3-4); letterboxed (disc 2) or 16:9 anamorphic (disc 1); Dolby digital
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Becoming green : growing environmental awareness, WGBH Educational Foundation
Publication
Copyright
Note
Disc 1-2 originally broadcast on the television program Nova; disc 3 originally broadcast as a Nova/Frontline television production; disc 4 originally broadcast on the television program American experience
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • disc 1.
  • Car of the future
  • disc 2.
  • Solar energy: saved by the sun
  • disc 3.
  • Global warming: what's up with the weather?
  • disc 4
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Control code
ocn226300542
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Extent
4 videodiscs (277 min.)
Isbn
9781593758073
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
783421423596
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • WG42359
  • WG42439SL
  • WG41709SL
  • WG31639SL
  • WG42019SL
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o226300542
  • (OCoLC)226300542
System details
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; (4 x 3) full screen presentation (discs 3-4); letterboxed (disc 2) or 16:9 anamorphic (disc 1); Dolby digital
Video recording format
DVD

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