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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn rainwater harvesting techniques. In California and other regions affected by drought, agriculture is suffering from a lack of water and farms are being abandoned at an alarming rate. But some people have developed solutions to capture the rains that DO fall. In this state and in many other dry regions around the world, land restoration helps water penetrate healthy soils and in turn increase crop yields. Even in dry areas, water which typically...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD'S WATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes,...
5) Holy water
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A film about our global water situation, water politics and the poor people's struggle for enough drinking water. In India farmers, joined by the famous environmentalist Vandana Shiva, are prostesting against Coca-Cola. They mean that their ground water is going down and is being polluted because of the soft drink production in many places all over India. It's a film about the strong, Indian women who dare to protest, and the Coke factory that had...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Water constantly moves through an immense global cycle, evaporating from lakes and oceans all over the world, condensing to form clouds, precipitating as rain and snow, which then flows back to the oceans. Hydroelectric power takes advantage of this water cycle to drive machinery or create electricity. Hydroelectric power uses moving water as energy. Because the water cycle is an endless and constantly recharging system, it is an excellent source...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As water becomes more and more scarce, the challenge is to boost water productivity and efficiency while protecting the natural environment. This program presents an overview of job opportunities in water management such as flood control, reservoir management, levee design and repair, designing and operating dams and sewer systems, river management and restoration, monitoring fish populations, protecting habitats and endangered species, maintaining...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film goes beyond the news headlines to spotlight the impact of the devastating water contamination crisis on the people of Flint, Michigan. The film highlights the stories of residents who were personally injured, along with the work of local organizations and individuals that rallied to support them. Flint is a city of 100,000 people, with 41% living below the poverty line and an African-American majority. The city switched in 2014 to water...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Powell to Powell is the story of a team of four following the upper Colorado River by foot, kayak, and solar raft. Along the way, they meet farmers, ranchers, water managers, and activists who explain the complicated role that water plays in the everyone's lives in the arid American West.
10) Chinatown
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For centuries, rice farmers on the island of Bali have taken great care not to offend Dewi Danu, the water goddess who dwells in the crater lake near the peak of Batur volcano. Toward the end of each rainy season, the farmers send representatives to Ulun Danu Batur, the temple at the top of the mountain, to offer ducks, pigs, coins and coconuts in thanks for the water that sustains their terraced fields.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film follows the dogsled run of former Minnesota State Representative Frank Moe, who mushed his team of 10 sled dogs from Grand Marais, MN to the Capitol in St. Paul in March, carrying with him nearly 13,000 petition signatures opposing sulfide mining.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Revised and expanded. Based on the original film that helped save California's San Joaquin River (Tales of the San Joaquin: a river journey). With new chapters and scenes of the restored river. For sixty years, parts of the 350-mile San Joaquin River have been turned into a perpetual desert by water diversion for farming, thus destroying habitat for thousands of migrating salmon. Tales of the San Joaquin tells the story of the river and its restoration...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In many ways the heart of indigenous India, mineral rich Jharkhand is and has been at the core of India's industrial development after Independence. The indigenous Adivasi people of Jharkhand have borne the brunt of what is arguably India's most fundamental developmental conflict, which has pushed them to the verge of extinction as an agricultural people.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In comparison to !Kung San: Traditional Life, this video shows some of the dramatic changes in life-style that Ju/'hoansi had experienced by 1986. No longer able to rely on hunting and gathering for subsistence, Ju/'hoansi collect mealie meal welfare, spend money earned from army jobs on alcohol and consumer goods, and live in a crowded area with increased fighting and illness.
17) Yindabad
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Hindi
Description
Yindabad deals with the flipside of Indian economic development, namely how an enormous construction project impacts an indigenous population. The Narmada Valley Development Project was created during the late 1960s to construct 30 large scale dams, 135 medium-size dams and more than 3000 small-size dams in the Narmada River. Over 2.5 million people have been displaced by the flooding of forests, cultivatable land, and villages. The situation in Narmada...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ju/'hoan farming communities multiply during the 1980s only to face a new threat. The Department of Nature Conservation wants to create a game reserve on Ju/'hoan territory. People will be forbidden to raise livestock or crops. Instead, Ju/'hoansi will be encouraged to act like "Bushmen" and hunt for the amusement of tourists. Urgent grass roots organizing ensues as the people seek to control their traditional lands.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years Ju/'hoansi have lived in the Nyae Nyae region in northeastern Namibia. In the 1950s, most Ju/'hoansi had been exterminated or were dispossessed by white colonists and black farmers, but in Nyae Nyae Ju/'hoansi were still the only permanent inhabitants.
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