Becoming green : growing environmental awareness

The Resource Becoming green : growing environmental awareness
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Becoming green : growing environmental awareness
Title remainder
growing environmental awareness
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WGBH Educational Foundation
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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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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
Runtime
277
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live action

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