Ecology, Environmental Science, and Infrastructure
​Selected .mp4s and YouTube Videos

Alternative Building materials
Architect Philip Kennedy's straw bale house (YouTube)​
Building With Rammed Earth- An impressive Durable Material
He builds affordable homes in Ghana using rammed earth
How Concrete Homes Are Built With A 3D Printer Insider Art
How Super Adobe Houses are Made The Henry Fords Innovation Nation
Is mass timber the building material of the future (PBS Newshour, 9 mins.)
Wood vs Concrete - which is best per dollar
University of Michigan Professor Joe Trumpey Shows How to Build a Straw-Bale Building
The Surprising Benefits of SIPs Homes vs Framing -Structural Insulated Panels-​

Prefab houses
Kerry Tarnow 320 square foot PREFAB HOME 
3 Great PREFAB HOMES You Can Buy Right Now (Tarnow)

Water videos: 
​Mexico City water crisis PBS Newshour March 4, 2024 (mp4)
Water Crisis A Global Problem That-s Getting Worse Planet A
(Vice mp4)

Re-imagining the LA River Part 1 (26 mins, YouTube)
Re-imagining the LA River Part 2 (26 mins, YouTube)
Frank Gehry questions LA River restoration plans (6 mins. YouTube)
Leddy California Water Talk, 2021, 120 mins, YouTube)

LA Sanitation: Roadshow on waste and water, .mp4

Videos on Food and Agriculture
How lab-grown meat is made and will people accept it? PBS (.mp4)
​​Chinampas of Mexico Most Productive Agriculture EVER (.mp4)
​A guerilla gardener in South Central LA Ron Finley (YouTube)
Americans waste up to 40 percent of the food they produce PBS (.mp4)
Sustainable Farming: the future of food, PBS Newshour (.mp4)
How our food is grown and consumed is making climate change worse. What can we do (PBS, YouTube)

Videos on Toxic substances and public health
ToxiCity life at Agbobloshie, the world's largest e waste dump in Ghana. (25 mins YouTube). This popular pesticide has avoided regulation for years. Here is the fight to ban Chlorpyrifos: Inside the Case. Then there's crumb rubber playing fields and the cancer cluster of soccer goalies. On PFAS see: PBS Newshour on PFAS and SF firefighters (.mp4)

Videos on Climate Changes worldwide
SciShow- "My Favorite Climate Graph" (.mp4) 5'44"
AMOC: Is Earths Largest Heat Transfer Really Shutting Down (PBS) 13'
Climate change in 60 seconds The Royal Society
Antarctica What happens if the -Doomsday- Glacier collapses​: Just Have a Think, 12'41" (.mp4)

Videos on Climate change in cities
​PBS Newshour: Urban heat islands
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Video on air pollution:
Oil and gas wells and air pollution in California, 9 mins (PBS Peril Series)
Urban Air Pollution: a primer National Geographic, 2019


More on water.... 

2 PBS videos on recycling and municipal sold waste

Recycling is not always being recycled, PBS Newshour (mp4)
How FIVE BILLION Pounds of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City Overview, PBS Newshour .mp4
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