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Nonpoint Source Pollution Audio/Visual Resources

The following are video tapes and slide sets on nonpoint source pollution topics. They may be borrowed from PACD for a two-week period.

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Agriculture

Agricultural Wetlands: Values for Landowners
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Focuses on values of wetlands in agricultural areas

Conservation On Your Own
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 60 minutes
Description: A "how to" video featuring eight widely used soil conservation practices

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Faces on the Farm
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Faces on the Farm, Think Globally, Eat Locally
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

How To Calibrate A Manure Spreader
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 8.5 minutes
Description: Step-by-step instructions

Manure: Where Does It Go From Here?
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers
Length: 20 minutes
Description: Introduction to manure management with connection to PA Chesapeake Bay Program

One Plan Approach For Farmers
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 11.5 minutes
Description: Three farmers explain how they developed integrated resource management plans

Straight Talk About Your Conservation Plan
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 20 minutes
Description: Rationale for implementation of 1990 farm bill, sources of technical help to come into compliance

Best Management Practices

Lines On The Land
Format: Brochure and video
Audience: Students (grades 6-8)
Length: 24 pp brochure; 28 PP activities; 10-minute video
Description: 16 learning activities, and a video about conservation practices

Moving Toward Sustainability
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 80.5 minutes
Description: Machinery management, pest management, soil management

Riparian Forest Buffers: The Link Between Land and Water
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 21 minutes
Description: Illustrates the functions and values of the riparian forest habitat and provides information on the three zone riparian management system

The Riparian Zone
Format:
Video
Audience: General
Length: 20 minutes
Description: Describes the importance of vegetative buffers along waterways

Rundown on the Runoff
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers, developers, citizens
Length: 30 minutes
Description: Management of stormwater runoff through erosion and sediment control, no-till seeding, etc.

Stream Crossings During Forest Harvesting Operations
Format: Video
Audience: Foresters, loggers, land owners
Length: 20 minutes
Description: Illustrates numerous types of stream crossings and discusses advantages and disadvantages of each type

Environment and Ecology

Faces of the Future
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 5 minutes
Description: Children say what they think about their future and the Earth they will some day inherit

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Echoes Through Penn's Woods
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania:Energy Efficiency
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Environmental Careers
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Environmental Education
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Erie and its Environment
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Gabrielle's Environmental Excellence Adventure
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: GreenWorks Channel
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Highlights
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Highlights of the Third Season
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: The Recycling Loop: Buy Recycled
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Variety Show
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

Soil - We Can't Grow Without It
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Students
Length: 15 minutes
Description: Different soil types and animal habitats related to soil

Homeowners

GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Buy Recycled
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on varying environmental issues

GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: The Eco-Logical Home
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on varying environmental issues

GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Environment in the Home
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on varying environmental issues

GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on varying environmental issues

Lakes, Rivers, Streams, and Wetlands

Wetlands: Our Environment, Whose Property?
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 30 minutes
Description: Enforcement of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act; discusses problems with defining wetlands and the rights of property owners discussed

Wetlands: Maligned Treasures
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 24 minutes
Description: Information on wetlands in PA includes analysis of our changing views on their value

Wetlands: Our Environment, Whose Property?
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 30 minutes
Description: Enforcement of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act; discusses problems with defining wetlands and the rights of property owners discussed

Land Use

GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Land Use
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Transportation and the Environment
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

Local Government and Community Help

Discover Your Conservation District
Format: Slide and tape set or video
Audience: General
Length: 13 minutes
Description: Services offered through your local conservation district

Good Neighbors
Format: Slide and tape set or video
Audience: Local government, citizens
Length: 20 minutes
Description: Highlights how PA's local governments are "taking care of business" while protecting water quality; promotes planning for growth and development

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Building Green
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

One Plan Approach for Agencies and Industry
Format: Video
Audience: Government and industry officials
Length: 12 minutes
Description: Advisors tell how to develop integrated resource management plans

Pollution and Pollution Solutions

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Air Quality
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Clearing the Air
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Dealing with Waste
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Pollution Prevention
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Pollution: Solutions and Results
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

Pointless Pollution
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 28 minutes
Description:
Addresses nonpoint source pollution; various sites filmed throughout the U.S.

Who Polluted Meyers' Lake
Format: Video
Audience: General, farmers
Length: Two 12-minute segments
Description: Focuses on the Meyer family and how they contribute to nonpoint source pollution and what they can do to stop it; Segment #1-NPS pollution from the home; Segment #2-NPS pollution from agriculture

Water and Water Quality

Water- We Can't Live Without It
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Students (second grade and up)
Length: 14 minutes
Description: Covers water cycle, water conservation and pollution, and effects on aquatic life

Your Water, Your Life
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 28 minutes
Description: Educational tool alerting citizens to problems of groundwater contamination and how local action can be effective

Watersheds

Dennis Creek: A Working Partnership
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: 17 minutes
Description: How a creek is protected through cooperating organizations

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Know Your Watersheds
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Watersheds
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various environmental issues

Life In A Watershed
Format: Video
Audience: General and teachers
Length: 16 minutes
Description: Enhances knowledge of the environment and how to protect one's watershed

The Streamkeeper; starring "Bill Nye the Science Guy"
Format: Video
Audience: Teachers, students and community groups
Length: 25 minutes
Description: Video outlining the process of how to become a Streamkeeper, discusses basic concepts of the hydrologic cycle

 

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