Jay Ingram, host of Daily Planet, takes readers on a highly visual journey, telling fantastic stories about people inventing, dreaming, scheming and testing. This book is about more than just the scientists who investigate global warming. You’ll also meet inventors, engineers, and even people with no particular professional specialty as they craft their own response to the crisis. They are all part of a growing movement to do something now.
Subjects: General
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Cold Water Survival: Snowmobiling Night
How to survive a night in the forest after losing your snowmobile through the ice.
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Cold Water Survival: Keeping Calm
The importance of proper outerwear to keep you afloat and alive when snowmobiling.
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E-Waste
GEEP Global Electronic Recycling is one of the biggest and most hi-tech recyclers of the thousands of tons of modern electronic components that are disposed of annually in North America.
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What’s So Special About Science
This program is designed to inspire students at the very start of secondary school about Science and scientific study. It covers a wide range of areas relevant to science – including defining science as a method of enquiry; the three key branches of science studied at school – chemistry, biology and physics; other multidisciplinary areas covered by various branches of science; and the diversity and richness of scientific careers.
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Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound – Public Performance
This program, specifically designed to help people get the most from their vision and hearing as they age, considers how these senses change throughout life and what people can do to keep them healthy and fully functional.
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Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound – Home Use
This program, specifically designed to help people get the most from their vision and hearing as they age, considers how these senses change throughout life and what people can do to keep them healthy and fully functional.
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Inventions That Changed our Lives: 6 Pack
Inventions That Changed Our Lives, a six-volume series narrated by Tom Baker, uses modern-day technological inventions to take a fascinating peek back at early inventors and their creations. Each episode focuses on a different area of inventions, including communication and transportation, ancient inventions, medicine, plastics, warfare, and electricity. It inspires a new appreciation for inventions crucial to everyday life.