University of California
The Global Warming Facts You Need to Know
According to NASA, global sea levels rose 17 cm in the last century and 30 cm in the last decade. The video highlights a scientist who predicted climate change, and who offers solutions to change the course of global warming.
California Academy of Science
Sustainability of Chocolate
Monoculture has made many crops more susceptible to insects and disease. Chocolate is no exception! This video explores the sustainability of the cacao plant and what might be done to ensure that we don't run out of this treasured treat!...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Blossoms: Sustainable Energy: Can Water Be the Future Fuel?
The main objective of this video lesson is to bring the students' attention to the importance of basic and natural sciences in our lives. The lesson will introduce a topic (sustainable energy) that is related mainly to chemistry and is...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Measuring Biodiversity to Evaluate Human Impact
A video to learn about the interactions of humans and the environment. Also, learn how the environment is impacted by humans. [4:40]
Into the Outdoors
Into the Outdoors: Sustainable Forests
A video investigating how the forest ecosystem is considered a model for sustainability. Learn how forest can naturally regrow and sustain the health of the system that contains air, water, soil, trees, and animals. Site also includes a...
Other
Wwo: World Without Oil
Video imagines the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis. Educational and thought provoking. [7:03]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Green Building
A talk with the architect of Washington University's Tyson Living Learning Center, an environmentally sustainable building. Aired Mar. 12, 2010. [17:47] Links to a video about three minutes long.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Sustainability: Water Baltimore's Urban Streams
A scientist discusses her work studying the travel times of pollutants in waterways around Baltimore's Chesapeake Bay, which is on the brink of an environmental crisis. Her research team is trying to understand how this urban water cycle...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Bamboo Bicycles Roll Out
See how a Washington bicycle workshop makes bikes out of handcrafted bamboo.
Other
Think Green: Food Waste
Bill Nye shows how to live in a more sustainable world, and compost our food waste. [4:26]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Urban Estuaries: Home to Native Peoples
Find out how progress and expansion displace native peoples who have lived in harmony with the estuary for generations. [6:43]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Tale of Two Estuaries: Native People
Estuaries have been home to native people for centuries. Meet members of Oregon's Coquille Tribe who used the estuary's riches to flourish for hundreds of years. [5:14]
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Estuaries and the First Peoples
Learn how the Charlotte Harbor estuary served as nature's supermarket for the native Calusa people. [3:39]
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Sustainability: Water: The Ogallala Aquifer
Scientists are studying the condition of the Ogallala aquifer underneath Kansas farmlands, which use this freshwater resource for irrigation. They want to understand changes taking place and what the future holds, and to help develop a...
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation: Processing Human Urine to Recycle Nutrients Into Fertilizer
This sustainable agriculture research relies on a unique contribution from humans urine. [3:48]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Pressures: Gender and Education
Learn how water shortage in Rajasthan, India effects women specifically. [5:53]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sustainable Small Business Solutions for World's Poor
Listen as Jacqueline Novogratz discusses investing in sustainable small business solutions for the world's poor. The goal, says Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, is to find a way to bring essential services to low income people not just...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: An Outhouse for the Sea
This toilet floats. You have to see it to believe it. Learn how rainwater and human waste can be converted to plants and clean water in a paddle-boat-toilet. It's a zero-waste waste disposal system that's discussed in this video and...
Versant Media
Vimeo: Ecological Footprint (Pbs)
Have you ever wondered what your personal impact on the world is? We now have methods available to give us a better idea of our impact. Knowledge is power!
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Exxon Valdez Xprize
This video was produced by youth from the Chabot Space and Science Center's Galaxy Explorers. It is the winning video from the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge Video Contest sponsored by Wendy Schmidt, Blue Planet Water Solutions...
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: How to Have a Greener Holiday!
Follow these simple steps for a greener holiday tree! [3:10]
Other
You Tube: Ecological Footprint Informational Video
A PowerPoint Presentation/video on Ecological Footprint (What it is, How It Can be Calculated, What We Can Do About It, etc.)
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Food Failures: Foraging Dos and Don'ts
Professional forager Tama Matsuoka Wong gives tips for picking wild plants safely and sustainably. [17 mins. 1 sec.]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Psu Center for Sustainability: Energy Systems
This short video illustrates the alternative forms of energy used by the Center for Sustainability at Penn State University to generate electric power: solar, wind, and biodiesel. [1:58]