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Good article about the depleting resource of fishes in the ocean. 

As you look at the world, how do you see water as a function of development? How do droughts and floods play a role?

How much more water will we need?

This is a link to a school at Oxford that has a trove of resources dealing with a variety of 21st century issues. There are multimedia materials and lots of publications on different topics available as free pdf downloads.

* Running time: 20 minutes * From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. It exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Description directly from http://www.storyofstuff.com/ web site, from which the animation can be played directly * Rating: Excellent; used in class as an example of a systems perspective; related to "resource management" and "economic integration"

* http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/index.htm * Description: This shows the change in obesity percentages for each state from 1985 to 2007. The increase in obesity is shocking. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions: Resources (food)

* Running Time: 5:35 * Description: This gives a short report about genetically modified salmon and some of the concerns related to natural stocks of salmon. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions: Technology, Resources

* Running Time: 2:34 * Aired: March 2008 * Description: A very humorous short film on the comedy show, The Colbert Report. It is spoof on the how damaging and impractical plastic water bottles. Warning: it does have a couple of off-color reference. * Rating: Excellent (very funny) * 7-Revolutions: Resources, Technology

* Running Time: 1:46 * Aired: November 2008 * Description: This was a project created by a student in a 7 Revs class at CSU Fresno. In this "save the world" project students were asked to spend at least 5- hours enacting change related to one of the problems discussed in the course. It is an animated short film about the evils of plastics bags. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions: Resources, Technology, Introduction

* Running Time: 4:11 * Aired: March 2007 * Description: This is a short clip from a BBC program called Top Gear about using Bio diesel made from cooking oil to run a car. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions: Technology, resources

* Running time: 12:55 * Aired: January 2008 Draft 85 * Description: Discusses how biofuels (such as ethanol) is not very cost efficient or environmentally friendly. How using corn for fuels affects the food supply of the world is also discussed. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions: Technology, Resources

* Running Time: 3:35 * Description: This short program shows how lake Chad (one of the largest lakes in Africa) has shrunk to 10% of its size only a few decades ago. * Rating; Excellent (very good for link in lectures) * 7-Revolutions: Resources (water)

* Running Time: 9:59 * Description: This program discusses the current problem of declining primate population around the world. This heart-wrenching program drives home the importance of the threat facing great apes and monkeys. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources.

* Running Time: 7:44 * Description: This short video discusses the pressing problem of environmental changes including pollution, global climate change, and depleting biodiversity. This discusses the United Nations Environment Program GEO-4. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources

* Aired: March 2008 * Running Time: 5:35 Draft 84 * Description: This short program discusses how countries might deal with the increasing occurrences of drought with climate change. It focuses on Panama and how the Panama Canal requires a large amount of water to function and how a local rainforest affects the water flow. * Rating; Good * 7-Revolutons Sections: Resources (water)