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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 25 min., 31 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
We buy, who pays? is a documentary about Western companies producing clothes and shoes in developing countries. It shows us the problems with the working conditions, like low wages, forced overtime, health issues, child labour and chemicals destroying land and groundwater. What can be done to solve these problems? We visit factories in India and talk to suppliers, labourers, NGOs, and farmers who give their point of view. Do western companies take...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 19 min., 46 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Some of the biggest opportunities for energy improvements occur in the building trades. This program presents an overview of job opportunities in this booming industry where there is a high demand for trained professionals, designers, and workers to help improve the efficiency of commercial and residential buildings through better design of new buildings and smart improvements to existing structures. Making our homes and offices more energy efficient...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 65 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A documentary by Faythe Levine, Handmade nation documents the new wave of art, craft and design that is capturing the attention of the nation. It is the feature film debut of director, author, artist and curator Faythe Levine. Levine traveled to 15 cities and covered more than 19,000 miles to interview artists, crafters, makers, curators and community members. Today's craft world has emerged as a synthesis of historical technique, punk culture, and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 22 min., 01 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The recycling industry is still in its infancy but is growing fast with everything we buy, consume, and then throw away. This program introduces job opportunities in recycling including a profile of an electronics recycling start-up and a San Francisco municipal program to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. Job opportunities in recycling include collection, transportation, receiving and sorting, disassembly, handling hazardous materials, scheduling,...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (438 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season Two follows various hotel guests over a week, but with each passing day, a darker side of the picture-perfect travelers, hotel employees, and idyllic locale emerges. At its Sicily location, the White Lotus welcomes two couples trying to decide if they're friends or enemies, a three-generation Italian American family exploring its Sicilian roots, and a White Lotus VIP traveling with her husband (and assistant) in tow. Behind the scenes, the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 90 min.)
Language
English
Description
"Information is the ultimate weapon," this program proclaims. Based in New York City, Guerrilla News Network (GNN) is an independent news organization with a mission to expose young people to important global news and information free from corporate filters, through programming on the Web and on TV. GNN's news videos are 5 to 10 minute documentaries combining high-impact images, commentary by media experts, scholars, and political leaders with music...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the newest set of high class vacationers check into the exclusive White Lotus resort in Hawaii, manager Armand finds himself facing more than the usual excessive demands of one-percenters. He takes on momma's boys and workaholics with a professional facade, his coping mechanisms become as extreme as the pressure he's under, while the guests themselves unravel inside their toxic dynamics until the situations collide with incredible consequences....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 22 min., 13 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
We visit the largest geothermal operation in the world to see how heat from the earth's core is transformed into electricity. We meet a chemist, geologist, plant operator, environmental manager and engineer as they show us how they manage steam production wells and electric generators. This growing field relies not just on professionals with advanced degrees but entry- level workers who drill the wells and maintain the power plants in this vanguard...
9) Fed up!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min., 7 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending {dollar}50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed up! presents an entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the...
10) The world
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
On the outskirts of Beijing is an amusement park called The World. The staff may be happy around the guests, but it's a different story behind the scenes. The park is seen through the eyes of the staff, along with the romances, dreams, and loneliness.
11) Maquilapolis
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 68 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Carmen Durán works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras; she is one of six million women around the world who labor for poverty wages in the factories of transnational corporations. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a dirt-floor shack she built out of cast-off garage doors from the U.S., in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from on-the-job kidney damage and lead poisoning...
12) The informant!
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
13) Made in Brooklyn
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The compelling stories of factories that flourish in Brooklyn, NY, challenge the notion that manufacturing is dead in America. Workers reveal how their jobs bring not only regular pay checks, but meaningful relationships, enhanced self-esteem, and pride in themselves and their products. Made in Brooklyn has lessons about the economy for the entire nation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 20 min., 40 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this program, we'll view the entire range of jobs needed to make solar power a reality from research and development, design and marketing, and financial analysis to construction and project management. Engineers, analysts and managers share with us both how they work in this emerging green industry and how they found the opportunity to be part of the clean energy solution. Jobs profiled in this program include:Research & Development Engineer,...
15) The bookshop
Language
English
Formats
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass...
Publisher
Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly...
17) Syriana
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues--his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's country,...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Across the United States, Native Americans are struggling to protect their sacred places. Religious freedom, so valued in America, is not guaranteed to those who practice land-based religions. This film presents three indigenous communities in their struggles to protect their sacred sites from rock climbers, tourists, strip-mining and development and New Age religious practitioners. Examines: Mato tipila (Devil's tower, Wyoming) (25 min.); Hopitutskwa...
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