{"id":453,"date":"2011-04-20T01:38:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T07:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/04\/20\/pbs-dvds-about-our-planet-to-celebrate-earth-day-april-22\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T23:53:00","slug":"pbs-dvds-about-our-planet-to-celebrate-earth-day-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2011\/pbs-dvds-about-our-planet-to-celebrate-earth-day-april-22\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS DVDs About Our Planet to Celebrate Earth Day – April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Earth_Days.JPG\"<\/a>Earth Days –\u00a0Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, \u201cEarth Days\u201d looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement \u2013 from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson\u2019s incendiary bestseller \u201cSilent Spring,\u201d to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. “Earth Days\u2019” secret weapon is a one-two punch of personal testimony and rare archival media. \u201cEarth Days\u201d is both a poetic meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements \u2013 and missed opportunities \u2013 of groundbreaking eco-activism. To watch a preview of this film, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Becoming Green: This set contains four outstanding programs related to environmental awareness.
\nCar of the Future<\/em>\u00a0– What will the car of the future be like? Will it run on hydrogen, batteries, or some as-yet undiscovered technology? Find out as NOVA looks at what’s to come for our transportation.
\nSolar Energy: Saved by the Sun<\/em> \u2013 In the face of rising oil prices and political turmoil in the Middle East, there’s new urgency to find ways to make solar power more efficient and affordable.
\nGlobal Warming: What’s Up With the Weather?<\/em> \u2013 The weather is different now \u2013 but why? Find out when NOVA and FRONTLINE join forces to determine what’s up with the weather.
\nRachel Carson’s Silent Spring<\/em> \u2013 Rachel Carson’s great love of the natural world drove her to write about the chemical industry and its unregulated use of DDT. Though she was viciously attacked,
\nSilent Spring became an instant bestseller and changed the way we think about the natural world.<\/p>\n

Secrets Beneath the Ice: Does Antarctica\u2019s climate past offer clues to what may happen to our warming planet? To gather crucial evidence, NOVA follows an ambitious Antarctic investigation utilizing a state-of-the-art drilling probe known as ANDRILL. Drilling deep beneath the Antarctic ice, down through the sea and three-fourths of a mile into the seafloor, ANDRILL recovers rock cores that reveal intimate details of climate and fauna from a time in the distant past when the Earth was just a few degrees warmer than it is today. As researchers grapple with the harshest conditions on the planet, they discover astonishing new clues \u2014 not only about Antarctica\u2019s past, but also Earth\u2019s future. Streets 3\/22\/11<\/p>\n

Word Girl: Earth Day Girl: When the Birthday Girl learns that the Earth is having a special celebration (on her birthday!) she decides to teach the Earth a lesson. Will WordGirl find a way to stop the Birthday Girl and save Earth Day?<\/p>\n

The Big Energy Gamble: A vast majority of Americans believe we are facing a global climate crisis, but we don\u2019t know how the various energy solutions we hear about can help. NOVA looks at everything California \u2013 an oasis of energy conservation \u2013 is doing, from conservation and efficiency to the development of new sources of carbon-free power, to find out how the rest of the country can join in their aggressive pursuit of a sustainable energy future.
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Earth Days –\u00a0Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, \u201cEarth Days\u201d looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement \u2013 from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson\u2019s incendiary bestseller \u201cSilent Spring,\u201d to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-7j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}