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"A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only...

This text, which has been adopted as an Open University course textbook, examines the ecological processes that determine the size and structure of a population, and demonstrates that there are many fundamental principles that apply to populations of both animals and plants.

Science is interesting to Brown if "it changes my view of the natural world and challenges rather than confirms existing dogma." He does both in advocating a nonexperimental approach, based upon emergent statistical properties of individuals/species, to studying ecological and evolutionary processes that determine species diversity, abundance, and distribution. By linking population dynamics and species interactions (small-scale processes) with speciation,...

This program begins high in the mountains of Iceland and ends at the coral reefs of the Maldives in an exploration of aquatic biomes that includes mountain streams, wetlands and swamps, coral reefs, and deep ocean. Along the way, viewers discover South America's Pantanal, the world's greatest wetland, and the Sundarbans - an immense mangrove swamp at the mouth of the Ganges in Bangladesh. Finally, sailing far out into the deep ocean, the video explains...

Despite its humble beginnings and initial suppression, Christianity is now the largest religion in the world. This program explores Christianity, from the life and teachings of Jesus according to the New Testament to the religion's evolution into three major denominations. Church doctrine, including the Resurrection and Sacraments, is explained as viewers travel to some of Christianity's holiest sites. The video also examines the impact of the ministries...

"This book is about a growing and dangerous mismatch affecting the developed world: a mismatch that originates in our evolutionary history; that is influenced by development processes in the womb, and takes its toll as we grow to adulthood." "Our evolution designed us for a world very different from that which we have constructed for ourselves. Within a mere instant, in evolutionary terms, we have transformed our environment. But the widening mismatch...

Organized religion may be influenced by culture as much as by divine inspiration, and yet there are many similarities among the mainstream faiths. This program compares the defining features of the seven largest religions and finds common threads among Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, and the Baha'i Faith. Using detailed examples, the video looks at structural similarities-a persecuted prophet, the importance of scriptures...

What are the different types of energy sources used in the United States? What is the impact of overall energy consumption on global climate change? What is energy conservation and how do we promote it in our communities? This topic will examine the future of a variety of alternative sources of fuel.

This episode of The Green Interview features Stanley Love, a planetary scientist with a PhD in astronomy from the University of Washington. In one word, he’s an astronaut and dreamed about being one since he was a child. He been with NASA since 1998 and among other things has participated as crew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis, logging more than 300 hours in space. In this exclusive Green Interview, Love speaks with Silver Donald Cameron about...