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Bangladesh's mangroves are a home to the endangered tigers and also a fascinating tourist attraction. But the mangrove forests are endangered themselves: The impacts of climate change as well as the ones of shrimp farming reduces them. The government tries to control resource exploitation in the area.
The global textile industry has a huge impact on the environment. The medium shows how UK's companies use water recycling plants and also more of their waste streams. In the meantime poor people living in Bangladesh shortly downstream from the textile factories are adversely affected by the pollution.
This medium is a valid aid in the discussion about the impact and the cause of climate change: It gives insights from Africa, China, India, Bangladesh, Greenland, Iceland, the Alps and the Arctic and all the changes that take place here. Graphics are used to explain the processes that cause climate change.
Changing coastlines are hard to manage sustainably. The medium shows in which kinds of processes they are formed. The audience meets the people who visit the area, work or live here. Flora and fauna of the region are shown. To meet all the different needs is an act of balance and requires careful analyses.
There are many impacts on the sustainability of a community. This film compares three of them in the UK. Politicians, residents and planners talk about the environmental quality, the infrastructure and the housing and service provision of their communities so the audience is able to make a comparison.
In an LEDC the impacts of a flood are extremely strong as this medium shows. It is explained to what extent the flood is an effect of climate change. There are hard and soft flood management strategies shown; some of them are relevant, other quite quirky, but they all are proven methods to face the water.
Climate change is the reason of a higher frequency of extreme storms. The east coast of England was hit by a giant storm in 2013 which caused huge damage to people, wildlife and buildings. This medium shows the causes for the storm and presents ideas about how this coastline could be protected in the future.
There are many sources for energy and this medium asks about the role that gas, coal and nuclear power will play in the future global energy mix. Can coal be cleaned up? How big are the environmental risks of fracking like it's done in the US? And does nuclear power still have a future after Fukushima?
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The rainforests of the world which we can't value high enough are in danger: Climate Change, water pollution, deforestation, the commercial palm oil production, cattle ranching and mineral extraction lead to a huge loss of biodiversity. It all has an impact on the indigenous communities who still live here.
If Ecuador wants to develop, it has to exploit the resources of the Amazon. But there are sustainable ways to do so: They include conservation in bio-reserves, sustainable agriculture, community projects and ecotourism and must be supported by governments, businesses, NGOs and indigenous communities.
The Canadian arctic is the perfect place to find out about the human and physical factor which have an impact on the water and carbon cycles in the tundra. The medium shows the scientists' use of research and monitoring techniques which can also be used by students for their own fieldwork investigations.
The audience is introduced to Yahya who's nomadic family had to leave her land in the peripheral region of the Sahara: Desertification forced the people to find a new home. This medium shows the causes for this development and proposes different ways to meet this challenge environmentally acceptable.
Whoever wants to design a product has to choose the material wisely: Should it be sustainable? What is the difference between recycled and renewable materials? What happens to the product when it's not used anymore? The medium contains also footage from the first zero carbon housing project in the US.
If a specific plastic should be reused to design a product, it has to be recycled, regenerated and tested for it has to meet special properties. This medium gives practical examples which explain how these steps of procedure can be sustainable: Can you turn Sony PlayStations cases into school chairs?