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With today's high fuel costs, it is time to start looking beyond petroleum and into renewable resources to power our vehicles. Ethanol is a clean-burning fuel derived from plants, primarily corn. The corn is ground, cooked, fermented, distilled and dehydrated, then ready for use. Ethanol is combined with gasoline to produce a cleaner fuel that doesn't emit as many greenhouse gases as pure gasoline. Pure ethanol has not yet been approved to fuel our vehicles, but it is the fuel of choice for racecars. Indy cars operate on 100% ethanol fuel. By mixing gasoline with ethanol, we can extend our fuel supply. Join us as the Eco Kids explore the production of ethanol and highlight the importance it holds in the Green Power movement.
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Simply put, geothermal energy derived from heat produced by the core of the earth. Geothermal energy is one of the oldest renewable resources used by humans. It has been used since the Ancient Roman times as a heat source. Recently, we have begun to harness that energy as a source of power. Geothermal power plants take the heat from the earth and bring it to the surface to create steam that spins a turbine. We have a constant supply of heat from the earth. The challenge is finding where it is strongest and bringing it to the surface. The Eco Kids will guide us through this process and explain a few different ways that geothermal power plants operate. Find out how experts are working to fine tune the process and make geothermal power plants more affordable and useful across the country.
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The first hybrid car was introduced in 1905. It had two distinct power sources working together to make it run; gas and electric power. However, using only gasoline back then was cheap and easy to power, and the hybrid car was forgotten; until recently. Since the fuel widely used now is a non-renewable resource and becoming increasingly less affordable, the hybrid car is making a comeback. Hybrid cars are operated by a computer system called the Digital Drive Line. When you step on the gas pedal, you are telling the system how fast you need to go and the car decides whether to use gas, electric power or both. The benefit of the hybrid is that instead of running on gas for an entire trip, it uses non-polluting electric power when possible. The hybrid car is ideal for city driving and traffic. By using less gas, hybrid cars help cut pollution and helps save drivers money at the gas pump.
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Solar power is defined as the energy we produce by converting sunlight into heat or electricity. It is one of the most abundant and affordable sources of energy available. However, it is difficult to harness and impractical in some parts of the world. So, it is important to explore in-depth, the process of converting sunlight to power. The three primary ways to produce solar power on a large scale are solar power generating plants, photovoltaic cells and solar thermal heaters. The Eco Kids will take us through each process of energy conversion to help us better understand this clean energy technology.
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Wind is a natural resource that is readily available and virtually everywhere. Wind power is defined as the process of turning the kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy. Humans have been harnessing the power of the wind for around 2,000 years. The Dutch made the windmill famous. Find out how the large wind turbines are built using a simplistic design and modern technology. They operate completely autonomously by rotating with the force of the wind. The blades turn on a rotor that is connected by a shaft to a generator that creates electricity. With the Eco Kids, we'll explore how the use of wind power is growing and becoming widely used throughout the world. It is an efficient way to use a clean renewable resource.
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The Earth Needs YOUR Help, the first part of the Eco Kids series, discusses some of the things that are hurting the planet. Students will learn common terminology used when talking about the environment, such as climate, ozone, fossil fuels, and carbon dioxide. We'll explore the issues of air pollution, the greenhouse effect, renewable resources and water usage while studying the factors contributing to all of them. The program is the first episode in understanding how to change our ways in order to become more eco-friendly.
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The Earth Needs YOUR Help, the first part of the Eco Kids series, discusses some the biggest problems facing the environment today and how it is being abused. We'll learn the role of the greenhouse effect, carbon emissions, air pollution and how the burning of the rainforest affects global warming. The "carbon footprint" is explained as well as an experiment with acid rain. We also learn about the amount of water and unnecessary packaging material people use everyday. This episode sparks students' knowledge of what they can do to "refuse, reuse and recycle" contributing to a healthier Earth.
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How Eco are You? is the second part of this three part series teaching students the Inconvenient truth about our environment. The episode challenges students to conduct an Eco-Investigation of their homes, schools and communities to determine which of our daily routines waste resources or are harmful to the environment. We examine our use of grocery bags, the packaging of products, what we eat and drink, water consumption, the safety of cleaning products and energy usage in our homes. We also take a closer look at paper and other material usage in schools, as well transportation in our communities. Once students understand how individuals contribute to the problem, they can become part of the solution to eco-friendliness.
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How Eco are You? is the second part of this three part series teaching students the Inconvenient truth about our environment. The episode challenges students to conduct an Eco-Investigation of their homes, schools and communities to determine which of our daily routines waste resources or are harmful to the environment. We examine our use of grocery bags, the packaging of products, what we eat and drink, water consumption, the safety of cleaning products and energy usage in our homes. We also take a closer look at paper and other material usage in schools, as well transportation in our communities. Once students understand how individuals contribute to the problem, they can become part of the solution to eco-friendliness.
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Part 3 of the Eco Kids series, The Things You Can Do, explores just that. The program urges students to become power police; put a stop to the wasteful things people do everyday and promote the use of Green Power. We cover what can be done in the home like buying energy efficient appliances, recycling cans, growing a garden, taking shorter showers and eating organic. It explores the things we can change in schools like reusing paper and batteries. It also suggests changes that can be made in the community like minimizing driving, boycotting bad products and writing petitions for change. Students are encouraged to spread the word about becoming eco-friendly and help our Earth recover.
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Part 3 of the Eco Kids series, The Things You Can Do, explores just that. The program urges students to become power police; put a stop to the wasteful things people do everyday and promote the use of Green Power. We cover what can be done in the home like buying energy efficient appliances, recycling cans, growing a garden, taking shorter showers and eating organic. It explores the things we can change in schools like reusing paper and batteries. It also suggests changes that can be made in the community like minimizing driving, boycotting bad products and writing petitions for change. Students are encouraged to spread the word about becoming eco-friendly and help our Earth recover.
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ECO KIDS EXPLORE features the 5 different types of "Green Power" which are becoming increasingly popular: Solar Power, Wind Power, Geothermal energy, Ethanol and Hybrid Cars. This series investigates these energy sources in an understandable way, which will help young viewers learn how to help solve the problems facing our earth today. As our world grows, so does the demand for energy. As pollution increases and our fossil fuels deplete there is a need for more reliable affordable and eco-friendly source of energy - Green Power.
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Join the Eco=Kids Explorers as they travel to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), having been granted an all-access pass to learn about Electric-Plug-in cars. Before key interviews with scientists and engineers, the Explorers give a history of the Electric-Car from the beginning of the 20th Century to today. Then we explore an electric car that was designed at NREL and is being tested for possible mass production.
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Follow the Eco=Kids as they learn the history of Hydroelectric Energy and explore the process of turning the down flow of water into usable energy. Watch our explorers discover the function of the turbine and water level at the hydroelectric dam, as well as the scale of a dam construction.
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Join the Eco=Kids Explorers as they travel to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with an all-access pass to learn about Hydrogen Fuel Cells. After an explanation and history of what a Hydrogen Fuel Cell is, our explorers team up with NREL testers and explain a modern Hydrogen Fuel Cell car. Students will learn how close we are to having them in our driveways.
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In this installment our explorers visit three recycling plants: aluminum, paper and plastic. Follow the cross country paths of a regular aluminum can, cereal box and plastic bottle through the cycle of production, use, recycling bin, melting, washing, pressing and back to production. Learn to make your own recycled paper at home with the Eco=Kids Explore and investigate the costs of large scale recycling.
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Join the Eco=Kids Explorer team as they teach students about water treatment. After a brief history of clean water usage, our hosts visit a water treatment plant. We learn of two types of transforming water into usable water: purification and desalination. The hosts demonstrate how to do their own water filtration experiment from a class room or home.
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Lives lost to this drug have made front page headlines but that doesn't prevent many from indulging. This episode takes us behind the rave scene and the adverse publicity this drug attracts. The real story about this controversial substance may surprise, particularly as many argue, the effects of ecstasy are far less devastating than some drugs that are legal.
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Poe was born in Boston to actors David and Elizabeth Poe; but his father disappeared when Edgar Allan was three, and his mother died a year later. He was adopted by a family in Richmond, Virginia but was disowned when he was 17. After a brief career as a West Point cadet and soldier, he endured many difficulties but became one of the first great American imaginative writers. His works include The Raven and The Telltale Heart.
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) had a seemingly effortless natural talent which sometimes disguised his obsessive working and reworking of images.
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Beyond Saturn lie Uranus and Neptune with moons such as Triton, its geysers spurting eight miles high. But the milestone at the end of our solar system is Pluto, one day a possible staging post on the path to outer space.
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Manet (1832-83) was the reluctant role model and artistic godfather of the Impressionists.
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Egypt - Gift of the Nile portrays the amazing achievements of the ancient Egyptians. Its seminal civilization is brought vividly to life by reenactments, quotations from ancient writers, and stunning photography. The annual inundation of the life giving Nile is revealed as the source of the agricultural prosperity which made possible the evolution of the kingdoms of Egypt, the power of the pharaohs, and the construction of the fabled pyramids which those rulers built to immortalize their reigns and guard their mummified bodies in the afterlife. We are shown the methods of construction, the interiors of these mysterious tombs, and the head of the unbelievable Sphinx, perhaps the most famous statue in the world.
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How Einstein's 20th century theories are shaping 21st century science. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is universally considered one of the greatest thinkers of modern times, a man whose name is synonymous with genius itself. Yet despite the consensus, few really understand the ideas and applications of his theory of relativity and other important works. Perhaps fewer still realize how important his research is to astrophysicists today, as they search the skies to study black holes, seek out new worlds, and even investigate travel through time.
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THE ELEGANT SOLUTION is a fascinating 13 part series focusing on great engineering achievements throughout history. Filmed in over 20 countries, it reveals engineering as a crucial force in world development, and examines the future of engineering by exploring the past and the present.
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Elephants are the largest animals on the planet. They are very strong and have thick skin that protects them. They usually travel in groups with the females giving orders. They are vegetarians and love fruit. When water and food are scarce in Africa, the elephants travel until they can find a new watering hole.
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The Force that Changed the World documents the massive change electricity has had on the civilized world over the past century, and what it holds for the future. The ancient Greeks first discovered attractive electric forces when they rubbed amber with wool. In 1600, William Gilbert discovered that glass and diamonds behaved like amber and called these materials "electrics," based on the term electrum, the Latin word for amber. From Ben Franklin to Alessandro Volta, Andre Ampere, and George Ohm, advances in understanding electricity were made. From the telephone to the television and from the refrigerator to air conditioning, we have reached the point where the whole world is but a key stroke away.
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From an early age Zola determined to be a writer. His childhood and youth were spent in Aix en Provence; his closest friend was painter Cezanne (whose story is told in our Impressionist series). Despite failing his final school exams he got a job with the publishing house of Hatchette and therefore knew just how to publicize his first novel.
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Within a period of 400 years the classical world was destroyed and the West was plunged into the Dark Ages. The Germanic invasions of Hungary, Italy, Gaul and Bulgaria. These nomadic invaders carved a swathe across Europe.
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The First World War, Bolshevism in Russia, the collapse of the world economy in the Slump, Fascism and the destruction of democratic liberty.
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The unspoiled natural surroundings of the border region between Sweden and Norway, and their peace were threatened by a projected firing range. Publicly minded citizens on both sides of the frontier joined forces and convinced the Norwegian government to rescind its decision. But there are regimes that clamp down on every aspect of democracy - some of them by armed might. The people of Burma had long lived under a dictatorship. When, at last, free elections were permitted, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party won by a large majority.
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Why and how the war broke out. Sequences of reenactments of the Civil War filmed among the remains of great houses and fortified dwellings bring this conflict vividly to life. Why did it last so long?
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Hemingway's life and literary work were closely intertwined. World War One experiences in Italy inspired A Farewell to Arms. Works such as For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea reflect the passions of his life: bullfighting, deep sea fishing & African game hunting. A self-imposed exile in Cuba, he shot himself in 1961.
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ESA ANNIVERSARY- Cameras aboard the ESA satellite study far away galaxies in an effort to uncover the mystery of the origins and the future of the universe. SHUTTLE TO SPACE STATION- Moving towards a permanent presence in space. CLUSTER SATELLITE- Russian space missions examine the interaction of the sun and earth. TOYS IN SPACE- Astronauts have fun with toys that work on the ground but change drastically
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O'Neill was born into a loving and caring family; his father was a successful actor. After a rebellious youth, young O'Neill settled down to become America's first serious dramatist of international stature. He won the Pulitzer for Long Days Journey Into Night and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
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Following the onslaughts of the Vikings, Magyars and Saracens, Europe slowly begins to recover from the Dark Ages. This period also witnesses a remarkable example of European commitment to the Christian Church, the Crusades.
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The next five centuries are dominated by the expansion of Europe all over the globe. This came from direct colonization and the adoption of European styles and ideas by non-European countries.
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Democracy is not an invention. It is a process that provides mankind with a sound foundation for peaceful coexistence in every aspect of life. Universal democracy is also a must if we are to survive. But its' history has been brief.
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To ensure that the daily activities of the business reflect and enhance the original vision the entrepreneur must have an objective view of what they are doing and where they are going. This program, with its emphasis on long-term and short-term planning, will help her achieve her goals by closely examining: Profitability, Shrinkage, Turnover, Expansion, Satisfaction, Achievements, Weakness, Strength.
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Both riveting and informative, THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN TERRORISM - CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER takes an unflinching look at terrorism. It examines its roots and historical evolution, unveils the organizational structure of terrorist groups today, and investigates the geopolitical and economic environments in which these groups flourish and wage traumatizing campaigns of horror, placing entire societies under siege.
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In 1347 catastrophe struck in the form of the Black Death, depleting the world of one-third of its population. The skills of the early navigators and their voyages leads to the discovery of the New World, Brazil, and Cape of Good Hope.
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This fascinating four part series is aimed at children of all ages. Exploring environments looks at different environments and how unique animals adapt to them. These programs are filled with footage of exotic animals and locations, and will extend children's vocabulary and awareness of the environments.
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We live in a world full of contrasts. From the coldest to the driest of climates, the most populated to the most remote, the highest to the lowest locations, and everything in-between.
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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program is a key contributor
to global climate change research. With facilities in three
locations around the world, ARM studies cloud formation and
radiative feedback in the atmosphere. Through continuous field
measurements ARM provides data necessary for development of
accurate climate models.
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Across the world, extreme weather events are affecting local conditions.
Some areas are getting drier and hotter, while others are
getting wetter, as floods are becoming more frequent and more
extreme.
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Deserts cover one-third of the world’s land mass, and are growing
at an alarming rate.
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Areas such as the Horn of Africa are suffering severe droughts
brought on by seasonal changes, climate change, political troubles
and population increases.
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The Earth is roughly four and a half billion years old, and life started
to emerge shortly after the first billion.
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