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Seed Library
Our Seed Library at New River Library shares its collection of seeds with the community.
Seed packets with growing instructions can be picked up at your nearest PCLS library through our online order form.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Today Darwin would be surprised by the tourist mecca Galapagos has become; 200,000 visitors a year, 40,000 permanent residents. The impact on the most unique collection of endemic wildlife in the world has been heavy; too many people bringing too many of their ways (and invasive species) from the outside world threatening the future of this one-of-a-kind place. What would Darwin think of how Galapagos has evolved in the twenty-first century?
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Plants live secret, unseen lives. They are capable of forming mutually beneficial relationships with animals. But they can also be as aggressive, competitive, and dramatic as any living thing on our planet. Using specialist cameras, this spectacular series allows us to travel beyond the power of the human eye, to look closer at their interconnected world. Each episode introduces a set of plants, reveals the battles they face, and the ingenious ways...
4) Uncle Poison
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
A healer on healing, medicine & religion...Filmed in the modern city of Caracas, capitol of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community's Easter celebrations. Every day Benito Reyes receives people at his house looking for all sorts of cures.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the Great Plains to the ocean shore and out at sea, the race is on to make the United States the world's number one producer of wind power. We explore a new wind ranch to see the full range of new jobs from entry-level wind turbine technician to crane operator, wind power computer analyst and up to operations manager. We also visit a leading university taking part in the California Wind Energy Initiative where young wind power researchers are...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Chile's Patagonia region flow two of the world's purest rivers, the Baker and Pascua. Fed by vast glacial systems, these untouched rivers drive biodiversity in rainforests, estuaries and marine ecosystems. They are also the life source for Patagonia's most tenacious residents: the Gauchos, the iconic South American Cowboy. Now, five huge hydroelectric dams are planned for the two rivers. Over the past century more than 45,000...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
12) Nuclear Nation
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
日本語
Description
March 11, 2011: A huge tsunami triggered by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hits Japan, crippling the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, releasing radiation, and turning the residents of Futaba into "nuclear refugees." The devastation experienced by the town - dead livestock left to rot, crops abandoned, homes and businesses destroyed - was infinitely worse than anything reported by the newspapers. A year later, many refugees are still unable to return...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A RIVER BETWEEN US documents the largest river restoration project in American history. Nearly three hundred miles in length, flowing from southern Oregon to northern California, the vast communities of the Klamath River have been feuding over its water for generations, and as a result, bad blood has polluted their river and their relationships equally. The film examines the complicated history of this conflict: how anger, fear and distrust have undermined...
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Classroom ed.
Language
English
Description
"In Plants, Science Guy Bill Nye branches out and gets to the root of the matter to explain wild things about plants such as how they breathe, make food, defend themselves, and move their seeds around."--Container.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
Black Indians: Explores issues of racial...
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