Seven Revolutions

* Filmed: November 2006 * Running Time: 4:07 * Description: Short humorous poem about the Internet. Good way to break up a lecture. * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutions: Information.

* Aired: January 2009 * Running time: 5:27 * Description: Provides information about energy prices and ethanol. * Rating: Good. Used during a lecture on biofuels. * 7-Revolutions Section: Resources, Technology

* Aired: May 2008 * Running time: 54:00 * Description: An episode of "This American Life" that tackles the housing crisis, subprime loans, and the turmoil on Wall Street. Why did banks make extremely large loans to people without jobs or income? * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions Sections: Economic Integration, Governance

* Filmed: February 2003 * Running time: 22:20 * Description: Juan Enriquez talks about the future of genomics and genetically modified organisms. He discusses why it will be important for everyone to have an understanding genetics. Draft 82 * Rating: Good (It's a bit dry) * 7-Revolutions: Technology

* Aired: August 2008 * Running time: 4:51 * Description: This short program is about how population in European countries is dropping dramatically and discusses some of the related problems. * Rating: Very good (Good as link during lecture) * 7-Revolutions Sections: Population

* Aired: May 2008 * Running time: 7:37 * Description: This program discusses how medical tourism is becoming more and more common and is a good example of outsourcing. * Rating: good * 7-Revolutions Sections: Economic Integration

* 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)

* 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"

* 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

* Filmed: February 2005 * Running Time: 22:56 * Description: Ray Kurzweil is an entrepreneur and inventor and has a unique perspective on the future merging of medicine, neuroscience, and computers. He claims that by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. His talk has great graphics, videos and imagery. * Rating: Excellent * 7-Revolutions: Technology