Planting a community garden; making a welcome map for newcomers to your neighborhood; or collecting trash in your area and making an art project with it are just some of the activity ideas for Geography Awareness Week 2011 — Nov. 13-19 — with its theme of: “Geography: The Adventure in Your Community.” Here are some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Films/Videos’
Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 13 – 19
Posted in New Books, New Databases, Videos, tagged Community Development, Films/Videos, First Nations, Poverty on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How are Canadians really doing?
Posted in Just published, New Web Site, Statistics, tagged Canada, Films/Videos, Reference on October 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The CIW Canadian Index of Wellbeing was released yesterday. It measures the overall well being of Canada. According to their press release, since 1994, the starting point for the CIW, Canada’s well being has seen an overall improvement of 11 percent, paling in comparison to the 31 per cent growth in the country’s GDP over [...]
David Suzuki turns 75 today!
Posted in People, tagged Arctic Regions, Canada, Environmental Studies, Films/Videos, Urban Studies on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As Dr. Suzuki turns 75 today, the cities of Ottawa and Vancouver are both declaring March 24, 2011 David Suzuki Day. In their appreciative prononucements both Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson recognized David’s contributions as a science educator and broadcaster, the 52 books he’s written, and the important work done by the [...]
NFB films @ your library
Posted in Library News, tagged Films/Videos on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over 1,200 records of National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films are now available online through the library Catalogue. As a result of a public performance rights consortial deal, the Carleton license includes classroom use and public performance rights on campus, provided no entry fee is charged. Films are also open access for personal viewing. [...]
Waterlife, new film about the Great Lakes
Posted in Geography & Environmental Studies, New Web Site, tagged Films/Videos on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Watch Waterlife, a new film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and Primitive Entertainment, Inc. The film tells the epic story of the Great Lakes and how they provide the earth with 20 percent of its fresh water! The NFB’s website for Waterlife includes interesting facts, such as that 40 percent of [...]
New videos @ the Library
Posted in Geography & Environmental Studies, Videos, tagged Films/Videos, Food, Recycling on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Marina of the Zabbaleen Enter the extraordinary world of seven-year-old Marína, as she lives in the Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. Home Safe Toronto Home safe Toronto is a documentary that deals with how Canadian families with children live with the threat and the experience of homelessness. Food, inc. Lifts the veil on [...]
Canadian Geographic on Youtube
Posted in Geography & Environmental Studies, Videos, tagged Canada, Films/Videos on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Canada Day! Canadian Geographic magazine celebrates Canada by uncovering and communicating the stories about Canadian people, places, frontiers and issues both past and present. Now Canadian Geographic has a channel on Youtube featuring hundreds of interesting videos on all kinds of topics! Here are a few for you to check out: The Royal Canadian [...]
Ethnographic Video Online trial
Posted in Trials, tagged Films/Videos on April 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased [...]
Free streaming of film “Lake Invaders”
Posted in Videos, World News, tagged Environmental Studies, Films/Videos, Videos on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lake Invaders: The Fight for Lake Huron a new documentary film is being streamed for “free” on the www.greenplanetfilms.org website this week. Lake Huron is the 3rd largest fresh water lake in the world and has been invaded by numerous exotic species over the last century. Produced by Grand Valley State University faculty and students [...]
Screening of Marína of the Zabbaleen
Posted in Videos, tagged Films/Videos on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Marína is a cinematic documentary feature film that explores the world of seven-year-old Marína in the Muqqattam garbage recycling village in Cairo, Egypt. An impressionistic portrait of childhood and family, the film also tells the story of the resourceful Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community of recyclers whose entrepreneurial waste management system produces one of the [...]
