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The ERA Video Streaming Platform | Geography | Resources and Energy

Sustainable resource management

Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years

Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years

Case Studies | BBC One Northern Ireland | 2014 | 58'57''

Presenter and engineer Dick Strawbridge returns to Belfast to tell the story of one of the world's most important seaports. Using stat...

03: Laying the Foundations | Building the Olympic Dream

03: Laying the Foundations | Building the Olympic Dream

Geography | BBC Two | 2009 | 58'23''

With nine billion pounds to spend on creating an Olympic Park, London 2012's bosses face some big challenges.

02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

02: Siberia | Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

Cold environments | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'09''

Kate Humble continues her travels with the Nenets reindeer herders deep in the Siberian tundra, but plummeting temperatures jeo...

3: Shifting Nature | China

3: Shifting Nature | China

Geography | BBC Two | 2006 | 59'03''

China is trying to feed 20% of the world's population on 7% of the world's arable land. And a third of the world uses water from China's rivers. R...

Episode 4 | Future Earth

Episode 4 | Future Earth

Geography | BBC News | 2023 | 25'50''

Carl Nasman finds out how the food and drinks we consume and produce impact the planet. He explores some of the solutions on hand to look after the ...

Solar farming | Countryfile

Solar farming | Countryfile

Geography | BBC One | 2024 | 12'30''

Tom investigates the growth of solar farms on our landscape, and whether prime agricultural land could be under threat as the government prepares...

Episode 3 | Shop Well for the Planet?

Episode 3 | Shop Well for the Planet?

Climate change mitigation and adaptation | BBC One | 2021 | 58'02''

A young family are challenged to cut their carbon footprint and save money. Can they be convinced that being green doesn't have to cost...

Episode 2 | Shop Well for the Planet?

Episode 2 | Shop Well for the Planet?

Climate change mitigation and adaptation | BBC One | 2021 | 58'01''

The gang help a family at different stages of their eco journey. Reusable kitchen roll is put to the test, and we get some top tips on ...

Episode 1 | Shop Well for the Planet?

Episode 1 | Shop Well for the Planet?

Climate change mitigation and adaptation | BBC One | 2021 | 58'11''

The gang help a family go green and save some cash. Eco toilet roll and natural deodorant are put through their paces, and how will the...

Growing Up Green

Growing Up Green

Geography | BBC Scotland | 2021 | 28'07''

Documentary investigating life as a young person growing up at the Findhorn Foundation, a remote Scottish community focused on spirituality and sustainable ...

S2E1: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump | The Insider: Reggie Yates

S2E1: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump | The Insider: Reggie Yates

Geography | BBC Three | 2017 | 53'48''

Documentary in which Reggie Yates heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the w...

The Secret Life of Your Clothes | This World

The Secret Life of Your Clothes | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'51''

Documentary in which Ade Adepitan explores the afterlife of some of the clothes we donate to charity shops. He follows the trail...

S1E3: The Plants We Use | Maddie, the Plants and You

S1E3: The Plants We Use | Maddie, the Plants and You

Geography | CBeebies | 2021 | 19'03''

Join Maddie to discover the plants that we use in our everyday lives and how we can help to look after them and our planet.

The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History

The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History

Environmental Psychology | BBC Four | 2018 | 1'29'02''

Dr George McGavin and Dr Zoe Laughlin chronicle the history of rubbish and explore how what we throw away tells us about the w...

Your Phone’s Dirty Gold | Unreported World

Your Phone’s Dirty Gold | Unreported World

Geography | Channel 4 | 2023 | 24'05''

Guillermo Galdos investigates how illegal Amazonian gold could be in your smart phone, as he follows Brazilian police cracki...

The Secret Science of Sewage | Horizon

The Secret Science of Sewage | Horizon

Chemistry | BBC Two | 2021 | 58'57''

George McGavin and Zoe Laughlin investigate the revolutionary science finding vital renewable resources and undiscovered life in sewage.

4: Fire | How Earth Made Us

4: Fire | How Earth Made Us

Chemistry | BBC Two | 2010 | 59'03''

Professor Iain Stewart explores man's relationship with fire. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt and...

Heat stored in mines | Great British Railway Journeys

Heat stored in mines | Great British Railway Journeys

Geography | BBC Two | 2024 | 5'22''

In parkland above the pits en route to Cuningar Loop, he finds Glasgow's geoenergy observatory, where the British Geolo...

6: Fragile Paradise | South Pacific

6: Fragile Paradise | South Pacific

Geography | BBC Two | 2009 | 58'37''

A look at what is being done to preserve the South Pacific and its wildlife in the face of fishing fleets and other insidious threats to ...

3: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs | Tales from the National Parks

3: Loch Lomond and the Trossachs | Tales from the National Parks

Geography | BBC Four | 2011 | 58'44''

In Tyndrum gold fever has gripped the village's residents, but will the Loch Lomond Park Authority give perm...

The Fight Goes on | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

The Fight Goes on | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Geography | BBC One | 2020 | 56'59''

Hugh and Anita continue their fight against single-use plastics, looking at tea bags and prepacked sandwiches. Then, a...

Episode 3 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Episode 3 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Geography | BBC One | 2019 | 58'03''

In this final episode, Anita looks at single-use toys whilst Hugh reveals the plastics industry's plans to dramatically increa...

Episode 2 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Episode 2 | War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita

Geography | BBC One | 2019 | 58'06''

Hugh and Anita's attempts to solve our plastic problems continue. Anita tackles bathroom plastics whilst Hugh learns that micr...

Fashion’s Dirty Secrets | Stacey Dooley

Fashion’s Dirty Secrets | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2018 | 57'57''

Stacey Dooley uncovers the shocking environmental impact caused by an insatiable appetite for cheap clothing.

3: Food, Fire and Water | Supersized Earth

3: Food, Fire and Water | Supersized Earth

Geography | BBC One | 2012 | 58'06''

Dallas Campbell examines what it takes to keep seven billion humans alive with food, energy and water.

Sustainability in the fashion industry | Stacey Dooley

Sustainability in the fashion industry | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2018 | 1'29''

Stacey Dooley interviews a representative from Levi Jeans who is trying to find ways to make cotton more sustainable.

Composting | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Composting | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Geography | BBC Four | 2020 | 4'36''

Dr Tara Shine discusses the renewable possibilities of composting food waste.

Arguments against wind turbines | Power to the People

Arguments against wind turbines | Power to the People

Energy supply and demand | BBC Four | 2015 | 3'01''

Arguments for and against building more wind turbines in Scotland.

Problems with renewable energy | Power to the People

Problems with renewable energy | Power to the People

Energy supply and demand | BBC Four | 2015 | 1'30''

Local residents fight against the introduction of power lines and renewable energy sources into the landscape.

Power lines | Power to the People

Power lines | Power to the People

Energy supply and demand | BBC Four | 2015 | 2'12''

New power lines are needed to transport wind power to the big cities.

Early stages of toilet roll production | Inside the Factory

Early stages of toilet roll production | Inside the Factory

Engineering and Manufacturing | BBC Two | 2020 | 5'12''

Gregg Wallace visits a sustainable forest in Sweden and then a pulp mill where the offcuts from the trees are tur...

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