Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Energy Resources
This video introduces the Energy Resources series. This program explores the wide range of energy resources including: crude oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy, moving water, biomass, solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy....
Curated Video
Renewable Energy Resources: Advantages and Disadvantages
In this video, the speaker discusses different types of renewable energy resources including hydroelectric energy, wind power, solar energy, biofuels, tidal power, water waves, and geothermal power. The speaker explains the advantages...
The March of Time
1940s: SUMATRA: RESOURCES: * WS Oil mining rig on top of hill, silos (R) frame, car driving down hill. VS Workers operating drilling rig. HA VS Oil silos & storage tanks. Oil well, natural resources, renewable energy, alternative energy, drill
MOT 1940s: SUMATRA: RESOURCES: * WS Oil mining rig on top of hill, silos (R) frame, car driving down hill. VS Workers operating drilling rig. HA VS Oil silos & storage tanks. Oil well, natural resources, renewable energy, alternative...
TED Talks
Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future
Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work -- and details the projects that he and many others have devoted their lives to, working...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Nonrenewable Resources
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Renewable Resources
This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and negative aspects of each category...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Earth's Natural Resources
This video introduces the Earth's Natural Resources series. This program teaches students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: What Are Natural Resources?
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Sustainability and Natural Resources
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources Introduction
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Recycling and Reusing
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Exploring Natural Resources Summing Up
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Curated Video
Going To Green Unit #5 - Renewable Energy
Examines the future of a variety of alternative sources of fuel.
TED Talks
TED: The taboo secret to better health | Molly Winter
Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation...
TED Talks
Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Natural Resource Alternatives
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring Natural Resources: Exploring Natural Resources Assessment
Everyday we use natural resources. This series of programs introduces students to the importance of natural resources in our lives. Renewable and nonrenewable resources are differentiated with examples illustrating each. The positive and...
TED Talks
TED: We need nuclear power to solve climate change | Joe Lassiter
Joe Lassiter is a deep thinker and straight talker focused on developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy. His analysis of the world's energy realities puts a powerful lens on the stubbornly touchy...
TED Talks
Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on "clean coal."
TED Talks
Bilal Bomani: Plant fuels that could power a jet
Algae plus salt water equals ... fuel? At TEDxNASA@SiliconValley, Bilal Bomani reveals a self-sustaining ecosystem that produces biofuels -- without wasting arable land or fresh water.
TED Talks
TED: This country isn't just carbon neutral -- it's carbon negative | Tshering Tobgay
Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country's...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Željana Radojičić Lukić - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Republic of Serbia
Željana is a former refugee and now teaches in the rural community. She could never get back to her hometown, but her experiences inspired her to develop a new type of school tailored for a child of the 21st century. In her first big...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Oceanic Economics
At a time when the world faces a multitude of potential calamities ranging from climate change to water pollution and plastic pollution, to rapid population growth, the solution may well be in the sea around us. “It is water, the world’s...
TED Talks
TED: Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air? | Tim Kruger
Could we cure climate change? Geoengineering researcher Tim Kruger wants to try. He shares one promising possibility: using natural gas to generate electricity in a way that takes carbon dioxide out of the air. Learn more -- both the...