FLIP marine research vessel
AdultsEnvironmentNatureTechnology...The FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform) is a research vessel that can rotate to a vertical position. It is currently owned by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Patagonia ambassador Kimi Werner strives to find her place in the ecosystem.
AdultsAnimalsNatureEnvironment...In Variables, Patagonia ambassador Kimi Werner strives to find her place in the ecosystem. She treads the line between predator and prey - eventually discovering balance in an unlikely place.
Ron Finley A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA
AdultsEnvironmentGlobal WarmingFoodRon Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."
CHASING ICE captures largest glacier calving ever filmed
AdultsFilmNatureEnvironment...On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.
The Amazing Origami House: This Home Unfolds Eight Ways
AdultsConstructionCreativityArchitecture...It all started with Lapland. When David ben Grunberg was an architecture student, he was given the assignment to design a pre-fab home that could work in wildly different temperature extremes.
The kakapo : A rare Bird
AdultsAnimalsNatureEnvironment...The kakapo is a large, flightless parrot from New Zealand and one of the rarest birds of all, with only 124 individuals alive today. The main reason for its decline is predation by introduced mammals, particularly feral cats.
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten
AdultsHealthTechnologyDesign...Higher Quality Video "If people say it's impossible we have to prove them wrong." Design students Anna and Terese took on a giant challenge as an exam project. Something no one had done before. If they could swing it, it would for sure be revolutionary. The bicycle is a tool to change the world. If we use bikes AND travel safe: Life will be better for all.