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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Adding Talk to the Equation helps teachers learn how to skillfully lead math conversations so all students stay in the game, stay motivated about learning, and ultimately deepen their understanding. This collection features five case studies filmed in grades 1-6 and shows teachers at various stages in their practice of generating and managing rich mathematics conversations. Lucy emphasizes the progression that occurs as teachers get more comfortable...
Series
Workplace excellence volume 3
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Find out why some people love coming to work and doing their best: Energize with breakfast ; Create a fun caring culture ; Make the workplace desirable ; Use light, colour and design ; Encourage staff creativity ; Make work spaces comfortable ; Provide relaxing zones for time out ; Offer team building activities ; Meet, celebrate and socialize.
83) Kangaroo Island
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kangaroo Island (KI), South Australia, is Australia's third-largest island. A popular tourist destination, KI has many ecotourism attractions. The program follows a group of Geographers and others discovering landscapes, landforms, animals and their habitats, communities and heritage. An aim is to show the major attractions and how good management leads to protection of natural and cultural environments and sustainable tourism. Content includes:...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Meet Roger Cox, the first and only lawyer to have successfully sued both a government and an oil giant in court to establish that climate inaction can be made illegal. His ground-breaking case against the Dutch government and oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been foundational in determining that even private entities owe a duty of care to citizens to avoid catastrophic climate change, which stunned legal experts and sent shockwaves through parliaments...
85) Climate Exodus
Publisher
3Boxmedia International Sales
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
CLIMATE EXODUS narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change. CLIMATE EXODUS narrates the tragedy of three women who have lost everything due to climate change and now emigrate to start a new life. Lobuin struggles every day to find the last water supply so that she can survive in Turkana (Kenya) where it does not rain anymore. Nazma lost her crop in Ghoramara (India) due to the sea level change. Soil salinity...
86) The Green Lie
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Environmentally friendly electric cars, sustainability produced food products, fair production processes: Hurray! If everything the corporations tell us is true, we can save the world through our purchasing decisions alone! A popular and dangerous lie. In his new documentary film, Werner Boote (Plastic Planet, Everything Under Control) shows us, together with environmental expert Kathrin Hartmann, how we can protect ourselves.
Author
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Electric cars seem increasingly likely to replace our gas-guzzling vehicles. Could a new generation of emission-free electric planes do the same to the polluting airliners in our skies--a major step in the fight against climate change? NOVA looks at an array of new electric planes and takes a ride in some prototypes. Will the dream of super-quiet, super-efficient airliners become a reality?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover a breakthrough way to link employees' daily job duties to the organization's purpose, and watch employee engagement, productivity, and customer satisfaction soar! Nearly every organization has a mission, vision, or purpose statement that is displayed on its website or framed and mounted in the executive corridor. But it is largely unknown to employees and seemingly unrelated to their daily jobs. As a result, while employees may possess the...
91) Generation Greta
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
They are aged between 12 and 24. They have grown up in a world with increasing droughts, floods, fires. And they share a common fight: the climate emergency. In spite of their cultural and geographical differences, nine young female activists are united under the same struggle: raising awareness about the climate emergency, fighting against the inaction of politicians, and promoting radical societal change, so that nature and social justice become...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Tigrinya
Description
A Tigrean farmer and his wife, who host pilgrims to a festival at the Gundagundo monastery, have gained the biblical names Abraham and Sarah. We see Sarah and other women prepare food and drink for the pilgrims, while Abraham and other men erect a shelter. At dawn dozens of pilgrims descend the steep escarpment, eventually arriving at Gundagundo where celebrations are in full swing. We witness highlights of the festival, and the pilgrims' return to...
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Tigrinya
Description
A major new initiative in applied anthropology. This series calls for nothing less than a reorientation of global attitudes toward subsistence agriculture and pastoralism – a view that contests the received wisdom of capitalist ‘development’ and underlines the crucial role of the traditional farmer and pastoralist in maintaining the planet’s environmental health and diversity. Its most singular feature is that it argues not from theories but...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A detailed overview of contemporary life in the tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, this film documents the earth's first sovereign nation faced with total destruction due to the effects of global warming. With a population of about 11,000 living on a total landmass of only 20 square miles less than Manhattan spread over nine low-lying atolls 600 miles to the north of Fiji, Tuvalu has been inhabited for over four millenia.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Australia’s wilderness is a world unto itself, made possible by the protection provided by the Wallace Line. One of the most important boundaries in nature, it divides wild Australia from the rest of the world – and in doing so, has ensured that the incredible creatures of the great southern land have stayed, at an evolutionary level, completely distinct and separate from the rest of the world. Through the lens of the Wallace Line, we can see...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Edward O. Wilson, the Pelligrino University Professor and Honorary Curator of Entomology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most distinguished and controversial scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by fueling their enthusiasm for science and showing them its immediacy for their everyday lives.
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Tigrinya
Description
In the highlands of Tigray - northern Ethiopia - on the edge of the escarpment that descends steeply to the Danakil dessert, Hagos Mashisho and Desta Gidey have toiled and struggled for years to turn the rugged slopes of the East African Rift Valley into fertile ground. They have grown crops here not only to feed themselves and their family, but also to share with others, in particular the pilgrims who regularly pass by on their way to the monastery...
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