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about the pioneering <strong>com</strong>munity-building<br />
project of the world-famous architect Frei<br />
Otto in Berlin, called the Okohaus—an<br />
experimental, ecological, customized<br />
housing project in the city center.<br />
Including interviews with Frei Otto,<br />
Christine Kanstinger-Otto, Hermann<br />
Kendel, Yona Friedman, Anne Lacaton &<br />
Jean-Philippe Vassal, and other involved<br />
architects, planners, and inhabitants, the<br />
film shows the development and the<br />
philosophy of the project, which was built<br />
for the International Building Exhibition in<br />
Berlin 1987 (IBA).<br />
The "Ecohouse" project hosts a number of<br />
experimental solutions to adaptable home<br />
building and personalization. The film<br />
explores the ideas that motivated the<br />
project, its underlying sustainability<br />
themes, and asks how these ambitions<br />
were realized.<br />
DREAMING OF A TREE HOUSE<br />
ultimately asks: What can we learn from<br />
the Okohaus? How can its design, building<br />
process, and the experience of its 20-plus<br />
year occupation inform ecological and<br />
design issues currently relevant to our<br />
society?<br />
Award<br />
� World Premiere, 2011 Architecture<br />
Film Festival (Rotterdam)<br />
Item no. : NN03100836<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 85 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 398.00<br />
FIERCE FIERCE GREEN GREEN FIRE, FIRE, AA:<br />
A :<br />
THE THE BATTLE BATTLE FOR FOR A A LIV LIVING LIV ING<br />
PLANET<br />
PLANET<br />
Directed by Mark Kitchell<br />
The documentary of record on the<br />
environmental movement.<br />
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a<br />
Living Planet is the first big-picture<br />
exploration of the environmental<br />
movement - grassroots and global<br />
activism spanning fifty years from<br />
conservation to climate change. From<br />
halting dams in the Grand Canyon to<br />
battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love<br />
Canal; from Greenpeace saving the<br />
whales to Chico Mendes and the<br />
rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from<br />
climate change to the promise of<br />
transforming our civilization... the film tells<br />
vivid stories about people fighting - and<br />
succeeding - against enormous odds.<br />
The film is divided into five "acts".<br />
Act 1 focuses on the conservation<br />
movement of the `60s, David Brower and<br />
the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams in the<br />
Grand Canyon.<br />
Act 2 looks at the new environmental<br />
movement of the `70s with its emphasis on<br />
pollution, focusing on the battle led by Lois<br />
Gibbs over Love Canal.<br />
Act 3 is about alternative ecology strands<br />
and the main story is Greenpeace's<br />
campaign to save the whales.<br />
Act 4 explores global resource issues and<br />
crises of the `80s, focusing on the struggle<br />
to save the Amazon led by Chico Mendes<br />
and the rubber tappers.<br />
Act 5 concerns climate change.<br />
Reviews<br />
� "The most thorough, expansive, and<br />
inclusive documentary film on the rise<br />
of modern environmentalism." - Paul<br />
Sutter, Associate Professor of History,<br />
University of Colorado<br />
� "The material is vast, and it's an<br />
incredibly dynamic film. It's shaping<br />
up to be the documentary of record on<br />
the environmental movement. I think<br />
it'll be hugely successful." - Cara<br />
Mertes, Director, Sundance Institute<br />
Documentary Film Program<br />
� "The film left me emotionally drained<br />
and profoundly hopeful." - Bruce<br />
Barcott, OnEarth Magazine<br />
Item no. : TE02560823<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 114 minutes<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
StdBkNo : 1937772411<br />
Price : USD 295.00<br />
TEACHER<br />
TRAINING<br />
SEXT SEXT UP UP KIDS<br />
KIDS<br />
From tiny tots strutting bikini-clad bodies in<br />
beauty pageants to <strong>com</strong>panies marketing<br />
itty-bitty thongs and padded bras to<br />
nine-year-olds, images of ever-younger<br />
sexualized girls have be<strong>com</strong>e<br />
<strong>com</strong>monplace. Add to that: ever-younger<br />
boys with 24-7 access to internet porn. It<br />
saturates their lives — from skate parks to<br />
the school bus — by the time they're<br />
eighteen, 80 percent of boys are watching<br />
porn online. Toss social media into the mix<br />
and kids can not only consume X-rated<br />
images, but can also now produce them.<br />
Sexting has be<strong>com</strong>e a Grade 7 right of<br />
passage.<br />
Sext up KIDS exposes how growing up in<br />
a hyper-sexualized culture hurts our kids.<br />
Find out why educators and parents<br />
struggle to help kids navigate puberty in a<br />
world where the line between pop culture<br />
and porn culture is increasingly blurred.<br />
Item no. : ZZ04061300<br />
Format : DVD (Closed Captioned)<br />
Duration : 45 minutes<br />
Audience : Grades 9-12, Adult<br />
Education, Post<br />
Secondary<br />
Copyright : <strong>2012</strong><br />
Price : USD 188.00<br />
TENNIS<br />
2011 2011 US US OPEN OPEN MEN'S<br />
MEN'S<br />
FINAL: FINAL: NADAL NADAL VS<br />
VS<br />
DJOKOVIC<br />
DJOKOVIC<br />
The US Open began in 1881 as the U.S.<br />
Championships, a relatively small event<br />
held at The Casino in <strong>New</strong>port, R.I. Today<br />
it has grown into the biggest tennis<br />
tournament in the world, with a long, rich<br />
tradition of attracting the best players from<br />
around the globe to perform on the world's<br />
greatest stage: the USTA Billie Jean King<br />
National Tennis Center in <strong>New</strong> York City.<br />
As the last major of the calendar year, the<br />
US Open annually brings down the curtain<br />
on the Grand Slam season with some of<br />
the most unforgettable matches in tennis<br />
history. In 2011, it featured another<br />
bruising battle between the best player of<br />
2010 (Rafael Nadal) and the best player of<br />
2011 (Novak Djokovic) <strong>com</strong>peting in the<br />
first repeat men's singles final since Ivan<br />
Lendl and Mats Wilander in 1987-88 and<br />
the first featuring the top two seeds since<br />
Pete Sampras defeated Michael Chang in<br />
1996.<br />
A year earlier Nadal knocked off Djokovic<br />
in four sets to win his first US Open<br />
championship and <strong>com</strong>plete the career<br />
Grand Slam. But Djokovic had turned the<br />
tables in 2011, defeating Nadal all five<br />
times they played—all in finals. A victory<br />
for Nadal, the reigning French Open<br />
champion, would give him a split of the<br />
year's four Grand Slam events and tie him<br />
with Bjorn Borg and Rod Laver for fourth<br />
all-time with 11 Grand Slam tournament<br />
titles. A victory for Djokovic would give him<br />
his first US Open title, make him just the<br />
sixth man in the Open Era to win three<br />
Grand Slam tournaments in a single<br />
season and run his record on the year to<br />
an in<strong>com</strong>parable 64-2.<br />
Item no. : WP00770125<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : Approx. 200 minutes<br />
StdBkNo : 9780769791456<br />
Price : USD 55.00<br />
2011 2011 WIMB WIMBLEDON<br />
WIMB WIMBLEDON<br />
LEDON<br />
OFFICIAL OFFICIAL FILM<br />
FILM<br />
Wimbledon 2011 is the definitive story of<br />
the 125th Championships. In the Men's<br />
Singles, the world number one Rafael<br />
Nadal returned to SW19 to defend his title,<br />
hot off the success of a sixth French Open<br />
victory and determined to prevail ahead of<br />
2011's form player Novak Djokovic.<br />
In the Women's Singles defending<br />
champion Serena Williams was attempting<br />
to win her 14th Grand Slam crown, despite<br />
having played sparingly since winning the<br />
2010 title due to injury and illness.<br />
Six-time champion Roger Federer, in<br />
search of a record equaling 7th triumph,<br />
crashed out at the quarter-final stage for<br />
the second year in succession, beaten by<br />
the twelfth seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of<br />
France.<br />
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