TED Talks
TED: Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | Mac Stone
For centuries, people have viewed swamps and wetlands as obstacles to avoid. But for photographer Mac Stone, who documents the stories of wildlife in Florida's Everglades, the swamp isn't a hindrance — it's a national treasure. Through...
SciShow
6 Toilets From History, and What They Taught Us
Across the world, and throughout history, different peoples have developed different ways to deal with their own waste. And while they didn’t always nail the design, their efforts to keep themselves safe have led to the thrones and...
Crash Course
Why Does Jakarta Flood So Easily? Crash Course Geography
Today we're going to talk about how and why floods happen both in spite of, and because of, us. Specifically, we'll take a closer look at the island of Java, and its largest city, Jakarta, and explain the factors that lead to serious...
Crash Course
How Rivers Shape the Landscape: Crash Course Geography
Today we're going to talk about rivers and how these dynamic, delicate, yet powerful systems are able to constantly change the landscape. We'll focus on the Zambezi River in Southeast Africa following its main features from the...
Crash Course
Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain - Crash Course Ecology
Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in...
Curated Video
Take a Photo Because You Might Not Have That Many Chances to See This Native Turtle
Learn all about the western pond turtle, and why they are so hard to find.
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Seeing This Native California Turtle Is One of the Most Rare Sights in the World
Learn all about the western pond turtle, and why they are so hard to find.
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Check Out California’s Only Native Turtle!
Learn all about the western pond turtle, and why they are so hard to find.
Curated Video
Zookeepers Work to Save California's Only Native Turtle Species
Western pond turtles used to be widespread throughout the state, but now numbers are dwindling.
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Why It's So Rare to See California's Only Native Turtle
Learn all about the western pond turtle, and why they are so hard to find.
Curated Video
River Systems
Dr. Forrester will define parts of a river system: valley, canyon, tributaries, stream, channel, delta, floodplain, mouth, drainage basin. She will show locations of major drainage basins in North America, including the Mississippi,...
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The Chesapeake Bay
Dr. Forester explores the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, identifying key components and threats currently faced.
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India's Water Revolution #7: 50 YEARS of Permaculture @ Auroville
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film 50 years of permaculture in the epic eco-township of Auroville. We tour a number of sites within the vast project, including the Sadhana Forest, a series of check dams in...
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NEXT LEVEL POND DESIGN
Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison visits a site in Oregon that has installed an extensive series of masterfully built ponds that have renewed the water supply in a dry valley.
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Water Crises SOLVED! | Paani Fdn India #4
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition and Farmer's Cup Competition. We tour the village of Savargaon Tal, in Maharashtra, who competed in the 2019...
Curated Video
High Desert Permaculture: 15 Years Later
Join Andrew Millison in 2013 as he travels back to Arizona and revisits several Permaculture projects installed in the late 1990's to see how they are working and growing. We go from the arid forest in Prescott at 5300', down to the...
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India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition. We tour the village of Garavadi, in Maharashtra, who competed in the 2019 competition to install the most...
Curated Video
Heal the Planet with PONDS
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits beaver dams talks about how beavers are the worlds greatest ecosystem engineers. He journeys to different permaculture sites in Oregon to see how these sites are actually mimicking the...
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Keyline® in the AR Sandbox #2: Landform Water Divides
Welcome to this 7-part video series that is excerpted from Oregon State University's Online Permaculture Design Certificate Course: https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/cou... The Keyline® Plan is a method of land design for soil and water...
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WHERE AM I? Permaculture Site Analysis
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison uses the lightboard to explain the process of Permaculture site analysis from macro to micro. Filmed at Oregon State University.
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This Farm Design Can HEAL the PLANET
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the landscape profile zones of the Keyline® farm design system. The four zones within the landscape profile are: 1) Water Catchment Zone 2) Water Retention Zone 3) Irrigation Zone 4)...
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How (and why) to FIND YOUR WATERSHED
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains how to find your watershed and why it is so important to understanding your place in the landscape.
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How Trees Bring Water
Permaculture Instructor Andrew millison explains how trees are connected to water in the atmosphere as well as water flowing through the landscape. This video articulates the amazing role that trees play to ecosystem and climate health,...