Seven Revolutions

* 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

* Filmed: December 2007 * Running Time: 19.34 * Description: Kevin Kelly describes what the Internet is today and predicts where it is going. He begins with interesting statistics about how the Internet is used today, then makes some predictions of how the Internet will change in the next 10, 20 and 30 years. Draft 81 * Rating: Good: Interesting stats but it's a bit slow at times. * 7-Revolutions Sections: Technology, Information Processing.

* 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: 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: 0:39\n* Description: Shows how Google Book scanners work. Google is making the\nattempt to scan in millions of books\n* Rating: Good (very short)\n* 7-Revolutioins: Information

* Released 2004 * Running time: 85 minutes * The film places these children's stories in the broader context of the worldwide struggle against child labor. Stolen Childhoods provides an understanding of the causes of child labor, what it costs the global community, how it contributes to global insecurity and what it will take to eliminate it, available as a DVD http://store.galenfilms.com/un.html and, perhaps more useful, clips can be viewed on line, for example, this one about children working on an onion farm in Texas http://www.stolenchildhoods.org/mt/archives/videostories/texas_fields/inde x.php

* 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

* Released January 2007 * Running time: 56 minutes * The Global Banquet examines the ethical questions at the heart of the globalization debate including how food security and social development are related and how factory farming can lead to degradation of the natural environment.

* 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: 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: 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.

* Aired: January 2009 * Running time: 38:47 * Description: A Fresh Air interview with P.W. Singer, the author of the book, Wired For War. He discusses how some military tasks previously assigned to humans are now being handled by machines, the technology behind the machines, how soldiers are affected by using these machines as weapons, and the future of war. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Conflict, Technology

* Running Time: 4:45 * Aired: May 2007 * Description: John Stossel from ABC 20/20 discusses the myths and problems that come from using ethanol as fuel. * Rating: Good * 7-Revolutions: Technology, Resources.

* Aired: March 2008 * Running time: 58:58 * Description: This is a very entertaining and informative program on research in biotechnology and bioengineering. It talks about present research and makes some interesting predictions about the future. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Section: Technology

* Filmed: February 2008 * Running time: 15:54 * Description: Craig Venter discusses creating new organisms with bioengineering. Altered and new organisms, like bacteria, may serve an important role in the future of medicine and energy. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions: Technology

* Aired: February 2009 * Running time: 24:00 * Description: Michael Pollan is Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at University of California at Berkeley and author of several bestselling books such as The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. He discusses a new way of thinking about how we subsidize agriculture and suggests ways of changing food policies. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Sections: Resources (food)

* Running Time: 3:40 * Description: This is an animated short film about groundwater. It provides good information, but is also very humorous. * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutioins: Resources, Technology

* Filmed: March 2007 * Running time: 22:36 * Description: E. O. Wilson discusses biodiversity and the need to think about and protect the many varieties of life. * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutions: Resources (Biodiversity and conservation)