Seven Revolutions

* Filmed: March 2008 * Running time: 27.54 minutes * Description: In this talk, Al Gore updates his thinking on laws, policies and global efforts necessary for environmental challenges including global climate change, acid rain, etc. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources

* Released April, 2008 * Running time: 92 min * Description: In this documentary several of the world's experts on climate change and sustainability are interviewed including: former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, progressive CEO Ray Anderson, and scientist and activist David Suzuki. It contains wonderful video footage and a very high production value. It is hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio and it appears to be intended for a younger, college-age, audience. In this documentary they discuss both the science and philosophy of the future of our planet. It starts off a bit depressing, but ends with some practical ways for individuals to enact change. * Rating: Excellent: Students rated The 11th Hour as their favorite video of the semester. * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources, Population, Technology

NOVA - Car of the Future: Engineering for the Environment * Released April, 2008 * Running time: 54 min * Description: This documentary is hosted by the radio hosts for NPR's program, Car Talk. The hosts Tom and Ray visit several manufacturers and entrepreneurs who are creating more efficient, eco-friendly cars, such as new versions of hybrids, hydrogen fuel cells, and electric cars. The hosts add some humor that makes the documentary more enjoyable for students, while discussing serious issues. * It can be viewed in six different parts at: PBS.org - specifically: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/program.html * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutions Section: Technology

* Released June, 2004 * Running time: 120 minutes * Description: This documentary discusses how countries such as, Africa, India and Japan are facing different problems related to their current and changing population demographics. It provides a number of good graphics (population pyramids) and statistics, but also relates these issues to individual, very personal, stores. The film discusses birth control and women's rights in India, how HIV/AIDS in Africa has resulted in tragic cases that change the role of extended Draft 78 families, and how modernization has caused dramatically decreased fertility rates in Japan. * PBS.org has a great interactive site dealing with this issue: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/ * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Population

* Released April 2007 * Running time: Eleven 50 minute episodes * According to multiple reviews, this is THE best nature and wildlife series ever made. The film covers the world's different habitats in 50 minute pieces, including mountains, caves, and desserts, ending with a three-part discussion of sustainability and the current environmental threats that our world faces. This series is not to be missed by anyone interested in natural resources, the environment, sustainability, and the future of our planet.

Worlds Apart is a collection of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, and related environmental issues. Used in critiquing the 7 Revs framework

This is a new periodical from Scientific American that is ideal for a 7 Revs class. It deals primarily with issues of our future planet including well-written articles on water, energy, green-technology, biodiversity, population and even conflict. The graphics, images and charts are easy to understand. Articles present scientific interpretations of problems, many with a future focus. Excellent for use in all course topics.

National Issues Forum publishes pamphlets on topics such as education, energy and environment, government and politics, and other current issues. Available as class sets, they present multiple sides of an issue. Many include a moderator's guide and questions. An example is The New Challenges of Immigration http://www.nifi.org/stream_document.aspx?rID=13784&catID=13&itemID=13780&typeID=8

Taking Sides presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor's manual with testing material is available online for each volume.

* Released June, 2006 * Running time: 98 min * Description: Why We Fight features interviews and observations by experts on the military, including Senator John McCain, Gore Vidal, and Dan Rather. It begins with the prophetic speech by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning of the rise of the "military industrial complex." The film discusses the forces - political, economic, and ideological - that drive us to fight against an everchanging enemy? This film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Although it brings in experts from a number of different ideologies, the film does tend to have a left leaning viewpoint on the military and war. * Rating: Very good. * 7-Revolutions Section: Conflict

* Released July 2002 * Running time: 360 minutes * Description: This three-part, six-hour documentary focuses on the history and impact of the new global economy, explaining macroeconomics and their current political and social importance without ever causing a loss of consciousness for the viewer. Segments include the history of economic thought, deregulation, and consequences of globalization. Interviews with several world leaders are featured.

* Released 1999 * Running time: 60 minutes * Produced by Berkeley Media and available through their website http://www.berkeleymedia.com/ * Educational discounts are available; be sure to ask. A review quoted on their site says: "This film manages, miraculously, not to fall into the simplistic trap of equating population growth with abstract numbers that count up doom and disaster. Rather, it reminds us that this is the most human of all subjects, and its future depends above all on the human lives of young women, who live in many different circumstances in many parts of the earth. It depicts these young women, appropriately, as looking ahead to lives very different from those of their mothers -- lives at a global turning point toward lower birth rates and population stabilization." -- Donella Meadows, Prof. of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth Univ.

* Filmed: February 2006 * Running time: 16.18 minutes * Description: This talk describes current issues related to global climate changes. His talk has a good deal of humor and is quite entertaining. He provides practical ways to reduce the effects of global climate change. * Rating: Very Good * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources

* Filmed: February 2006 * Running time: 19.50 minutes * Description: This talk describes the changes that have occurred and are predicted to occur in wealth distribution, fertility rates, population growth, and health within and between countries. Hans Rosling displays statistics using extremely interesting and unique graphics of changing trends. He breaks down several myths relating to difference between economically less developed and more developed countries. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Population, Economic Integration, Technology