I am a fan of iTunes on Facebook and yesterday, I saw an interested post. iTunes now offers an Open University series about the environment. If you have ever wondered how your food gets to the supermarket, what damage disposable bags is doing, or what unseen impacts your shopping may have, this is the series for you!
The iTunes Open University Introducing Environment series offers an introduction then 16 movies, ranging in time from 1:38 to 17:52, on such subjects as:
Unseen impacts (understand the consequences your shopping habits can cause)
Shopping by car (learn how short journeys of less than two miles can be the most environmentally damaging)
Shopping by bus (learn how eco-friendly buses have become)
Shopping by foot (learn how walking can make a difference)
Imported food (find out just how far the food you eat travels)
Local food (find out the advantages of eating food that is locally grown)
Disposable bags (shocking facts about plastic bags)
Reusable plastic bags (find out how they can help prevent filling up our landfills)
Fabric bags (learn how fabric bags could replace 8 million annually made plastic bags)
Your Co2 emissions from shopping: high (learn your high carbon emission habits)
Your Co2 emissions from shopping: medium (learn your medium carbon emission habits)
Your Co2 emissions from shopping: low (learn how to reduce fossil fuel usage)
Green social housing (take a look at energy efficient housing)
No ordinary home? (an example of a conventional home using cutting edge self sufficiency methods)
Selling the green dream (eco-houses and who’s buying them)
The green pioneers (the Hockerton settlement)
There are also three additional podcasts to listen to – Garden gold (about garden compost heaps), Tackling writing (how to write essays about science), and Red grouse debate (views about land management through blood sports).
If you don’t have an iPod, don’t worry. You can download iTunes to your computers, get the movies and then watch them on your computer.