Reducing your ecological footprint - for iPad/Mac/PC

Concerned about your impact on the environment? Interested in learning how to shape a more sustainable future? This album shows you simple ways to adapt your lifestyle and how to think globally. Five video tracks demonstrate how to assess the ‘ecological footprint’ of your household, examine the effects of personal transport on the environment, and explore how your decisions as food consumers are part of a supply chain stretching across Europe and the rest of the world. They feature an energy efficient household in Oxford and pioneering work at the Eden Project and Mount Pleasant Eco Park in Cornwall. This material forms part of The Open University course U116, Environment: journeys through a changing world

  • 1 minute 1 second
    Reducing your ecological footprint
    A short introduction to this album
    8 March 2010, 2:51 am
  • Transcript -- Reducing your ecological footprint
    Transcript -- A short introduction to this album
    8 March 2010, 2:51 am
  • 5 minutes 2 seconds
    Eco-Renovations
    Reducing your carbon footprint at home. A couple from Oxford talk about the work they've done to their home in an effort to improve energy efficiency.
    23 April 2009, 11:04 pm
  • Transcript -- Eco-Renovations
    Transcript -- Reducing your carbon footprint at home. A couple from Oxford talk about the work they've done to their home in an effort to improve energy efficiency.
    23 April 2009, 11:04 pm
  • 5 minutes 26 seconds
    Eco-Lifestyle
    Travelling Light. A couple from Oxford describe how they commute and shop for food in an ethical and sustainable way.
    23 April 2009, 11:03 pm
  • Transcript -- Eco-Lifestyle
    Transcript -- Travelling Light. A couple from Oxford describe how they commute and shop for food in an ethical and sustainable way.
    23 April 2009, 11:03 pm
  • 4 minutes 2 seconds
    Building the Eden Project
    Staff explain how environmental principles underpin construction on the site.
    23 April 2009, 11:02 pm
  • Transcript -- Building the Eden Project
    Transcript -- Staff explain how environmental principles underpin construction on the site.
    23 April 2009, 11:02 pm
  • 2 minutes 48 seconds
    Visiting Eden
    Staff describe how they work to keep visitor's environmental impact under control.
    23 April 2009, 11:01 pm
  • Transcript -- Visiting Eden
    Transcript -- Staff describe how they work to keep visitor's environmental impact under control.
    23 April 2009, 11:01 pm
  • 4 minutes 58 seconds
    Mount Pleasant Eco-Park
    The founder talks about the construction of two of his buildings, using local materials and sustainable techniques.
    23 April 2009, 11:00 pm
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