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Watch Your Foodometer!
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Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
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The Cost of Oil Addiction
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The great American experiment still has battles left to fight, freedoms we must achieve. The call of this generation is to finally achieve freedom from oil by moving to a clean energy future.
Oil giant BP has created a gaping wound in the Gulf of Mexico, dumping 3.3 million barrels of oil into America's ocean. This is now the largest oil spill and environmental catastrophe in our nation's history.
Meanwhile, in the Persian Gulf, American consumers send billions of dollars a week to pay for foreign oil, strengthening our enemies' hand...
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Jeff Rubin at The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009
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Jeff Rubin, the former Chief Economist of CIBC World Markets and the author of Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller built his reputation as one of Canada's top economists based on a number of successful predictions including the housing bust of the early 90s and the rise of oil prices. In his recent book, Mr. Rubin predicts $225 per barrel oil by 2012 and with it the end of globalization, a movement towards local sourcing and a need for massive scaling up of energy efficiency.
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Follow the Money
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Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? You're not alone: People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too. While we feel the pinch in our pockets, citizens of oil-producing countries are often not seeing the profits.
So where is your gas money going? Backroom deals. Secret payments to foreign governments.
A bill now in Congress would help protect poor people by making oil, gas, and mining companies open their books – but industry lobbyists are fighting it.
Tell...
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91•86•90
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91•86•90. What do these numbers mean? Why do they affect you? Why should you care? Steve Crower, an energy investment banker from Denver, CO, finds a creative way to present the underlying data of the world's petroleum supplies and why we should pay attention to it.
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Big Ideas for a Small Planet: Power
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Explore the booming field of alternative energy; meet individuals who are working to develop clean, renewable energy from resources like the sun, wind and even cow manure.
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Here Comes The Sun
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If it were up to the sun, we would have no energy problem. Every half hour on the Earth’s surface, there is more than enough light to provide energy needs for the whole world in a year. We don’t have an energy problem, we have a conversion problem. If we are able to harvest sunlight in smart way, then we can prevent a global energy crisis.
That sounds nice but that does not mean it will succeed, at least that is what many different bodies want us to believe. It’s too expensive, takes too much space, too much material, it costs more energy...
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No Impact Man (trailer)
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Follows the Beaven family as they abandon their high consumption Fifth Avenue lifestyle in an attempt to make a no-net environmental impact for the course of one year.
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Corporations on Trial: Dumping Ground
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In a special five-part series People & Power charts the rapidly growing number of lawsuits being brought against multi-national corporations. War crimes, conspiracy, corruption and payments to terrorists are just some of the serious charges that have forced some of the world's largest companies to hire high-profile defence lawyers to defend their name in cases often brought by plaintiffs who are barely literate. Corporations on Trial reveals a growing anxiety about the power and influence of big business.
Today many multinational...
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Energy Co-op Brings Power to the People
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What if a community owned its electric utility cooperatively, rather than paying a for-profit company? Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative could be a model. Energy Services manager Jessica Nelson describes how this locally owned, democratically governed non-profit serves the good of the community. Besides lower rates, customers benefit from incentives to conserve electricity, install geothermal heating/cooling systems, and solar panels (photovoltaics). The coop’s dream? To not only distribute power but to generate it — through a wind...
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Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown?
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Drawing parallels with the current financial meltdown, Matthew Simmons expresses his alarm about gasoline stocks being the lowest in several decades and refinery production down following recent hurricanes. He warns that if there were a run on the "energy bank" by everyone topping off their gasoline tanks, the U.S. would be out of fuel in three days, and grocery shelves largely emptied in a week. In an interview plus excerpts from his presentation at the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO-USA) conference on September 22, 2008, Matt...
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Who Killed The Electric Car?
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In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quiet and fast, produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline... Ten years later, these cars were destroyed. This film examines the politics, business interests, and technology that explains why.
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An Engineer Examines a Town’s Energy Future
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How much energy does a town consume? Brian Corzilius sleuthed that out for Willits, California, and got a big surprise: in this community of 13,000 people, nearly 25% of personal after-tax earnings (about $30 million annually) leaves town to pay for energy - gasoline, diesel, electricity and natural gas. His inventory grew into an energy independence report which identified opportunities for local energy sources to replace external inputs. His local “energy mix” considers solar, wind, hydro, biomass, wood gasifiers, co-generation, and sewage...
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Bill Moyers on The Iraq War and Big Oil
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Bill Moyers nails it. A concise summary of Big Oil's ties to the Iraq war.
Bill Moyers Journal airs Friday nights on PBS. Check local airtimes or comment at The Moyers Blog at www.pbs.org/moyers.
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Peak Oil - Visually Explained
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A quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil. This is the culmination of the creator's year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak Oil. (Nice work - the only note I would add is *the peaking of oil production has likely already occurred or is happening now)
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Peak Oil: How it will change your life
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A video presentation of Richard Heinberg's riveting talk in Grass Valley, CA, on Nov.15, 2005. Heinberg discusses recent evidence of the timing of the global production peak of petroleum, its likely consequences, and what can be done at both the international and local levels to prepare for this time and mitigate the impacts. The video includes Heinberg's slide presentation and a question and answer session.
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Freiburg, Germany: The Solar City
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Freiburg is currently the ecological capital of Germany. This is a German TV news clip spotlighting the city's solar innovations. Again, this in comparison to the media in America? The mind boggles at how much the mainstream media in our country has kept us behind the curve. There's so many amazing innovations happening in sustainable design all around the world, and we hardly benefit from any of it. We're pretty much living in a bubble, isolated from the rest of the world's exchange of ideas and potential solutions. We need to bring the...
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Fossil Free by '33
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Tam Hunt of the Community Environmental Council in Santa Barbara, California outlines a strategy for regional independence from fossil fuels -- and it centers around electricity. Start with efficiency & conservation, add renewables to replace fossil fuels for electricity, then add more renewables to electrify transportation such as plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.The result? A program "to save America's Environment and Economy one region at a time."
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The End of Suburbia (trailer)
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Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now. Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream" is a documentary about the end of the age of cheap oil, and how this will affect virtually every facet of modern life.
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The Elephant in the Peak Oil living Room
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Richard Katz and Dennis Brumm burst the technofix dream-bubble by naming the hard stuff: the lack of sufficient alternatives to oil and gas at the enormous scale needed. Overpopulation exceeding the planet's carrying capacity. Potential collapse. But wait! they close with ideas for positive individual responses.
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