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Films on Environment for Education, Outreach & Advocacy
Dear Friend,
The Centre for Science and Environment(CSE) now brings you a
powerful compilation of 11 films on Environment.These films provide
critical links between information and understanding.
CSE produces and distributes films on science, environment,
sustainable development and their intricate relationship with people.
Many of these films have gone on to win prestigious national and
international awards.
Why use CSE films in the classroom/community awareness creation
programmes ?
Educators, Teachers, Social Activists, and industries, who use CSE
video films report that their audience retain more information,
understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about
what they are learning. With films as one component in a thoughtful
lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum
topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside
the classroom.
CSE films are uniquely suited to:
ยท take students on impossible field trips - Thar desert, National
forests, Remote villages
- take students around India, to meet new people and hear their ideas
- explain complex concepts in a simple easy to understand language
- show how ordinary people are able to take control of their
environment
- explain the science and politics of environment
By exploiting the medium's power to deliver lasting images,
teachers/activists/organisations can:
- reach students with a variety of learning styles, especially visual
learners
- engage students in problem-solving and investigative activities
- begin to dismantle social stereotypes
- provide a common experience for students to discuss
I am confident that you will find CSE films to be an effective tool for
education, outreach, and advocacy.
As a special offer, 10% discount (package cost of 11 films Rs 8250 /
USD 275) is offered only on the purchase of the full package of 11
films.
This is a limited period offer !!!!
The ordering details and brief write-up on the video films is appended
below.
Vikaas Khanna
Mobile:09868231559
Tel: 29955781,29956394
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Delhi 110062, INDIA.
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BRIEF WRITE-UP ON THE FILMS
THE LIVING WORD 32 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US $25
Environmentalist Anil Agarwal and noted Danish journalist and writer
Knud Vilby discuss the issue of air pollution, governance and how we
move ahead. 7500 people die every year because of air pollution. How
do policy makers look at this problem? Do they stress on ecology, or
on economy? Development in a poor country, like India, is not cheap.
The film records the initial stages of CSE's Right To Clean Air
campaign.
WATERWORKS INDIA: FOUR ENGINEERS AND A MANAGER (Also
available in Hindi) 22 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US $25 Meet five
'ordinary' people, who have kept the intricate traditional science of
water management alive from the modern onslaught. These
barefootIndian rural engineers have been practicing the tradition of
water harvesting for quite some time. The camera moves from the
remote cold desert of Leh to Rajasthan and then to far south in Kerala
and Tamil Nadu. This film introduces the viewer to the technique and
social management practices governing community water
management.
ARVARI (Also available in Hindi) 14 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US
$25 A major people's movement in rural Rajasthan has revived the
river Arvari and its tributaries. Water management techniques have
completely changed the landscape and lives in this once-denuded
region. A dried up river has come back to life through a revolutionary
movement, regenerating community and society.
HARVEST OF RAIN ( Also available in Hindi) 48 minutes,
VHS/VCD,Rs 750 / US $25 Dedicated to India's traditional water
harvesting systems. One of the basic principles of water management
is simplicity itself - conserve water where it falls. But we tend to chase
hydraulic nightmares: big dams and canals. An age-old wisdom lies
forgotten. The camera wanders through Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and
Tamil Nadu, recording the profound science of the people. Get to know
a wide variety of water management systems as a function of differing
ecological terrains.
THAR - SECRETS OF THE DESERT (Also available in Hindi) 52
minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US $25 Watch the diverse social and
cultural practices which enabled large populations to survive in the
harsh Indian desert environment. The villages of Thar, in Rajasthan,
have amazing systems of water harvesting. Similarly, the desert farmer
has devised an ingenious system to grow and maintain sources of
fodder. Today, it is these villages that have not yet been 'modernised'
that have water and fodder during periods of drought, unlike other
'developed' villages who wait for water tankers and fodder trucks from
neighbouring states.
THE VILLAGE REPUBLIC 50 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US$25
Sukhomajri in the Siwalik; Ralegaon Siddhi in the Deccan Plateau;
Seed in Aravali; and Penchgani in Baripada; are not just names of a
few Indian villages, but of the true temples of modern India. They have
dared to take control of their environment into their own hands and
change their economic fate. These village republics depict that
environmental management, in rural India, is a matter of giving power
to the people to manage their natural resources.
THE SPIRITS OF FOREST 23 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US$25
Sacred groves are social practices, the cultural codes which are
embedded through years of practice and ritual. They preach prudence
in the use of natural resources in the long term interest of the
community. Sacred groves are found throughout the breadth and
length of India and their purpose is to manage and protect forests in
the name of God. If they are to remain, two things need to be practiced
- local community control must be strengthened and not weakened;
secondly we have to rebuild faith in the wealth that our forests provide.
LIFE UNDER WILDLIFE 23 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US$25
Looks at the conflict between man and animal. The traditional
inheritors of the forests are evicted and 'rehabilitated' to inhospitable
terrains, all in the name of protecting the wildlife! A case study of the
situation in the Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka and the Rajaji
National Park in Uttar Pradesh.
WRATH OF NATURE 84 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US $25 In this
three part series, environmentalist Anil Agarwal presents the problems
of India's increasing susceptibility to floods and droughts and seeks to
understand the impact of degradation of the environment on this
problem. Part I explores the increase in flood affected areas in India
and analyses the Himalayan floods. Part II looks at the increased
incidents of droughts in India and the conditions which are responsible
for it. It also explores the question about deforestation and its impact
on rainfall. Part III presents an agenda for change and shows how the
country can combat the growing problems of drought and flood.
BANDITS AND THE BACKHANDERS 23 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750
/US $25 Degradation of values translates into degradation of nature. In
a corrupt system, people lose respect for values. With large scale
corruption in the natural resource management, people lose respect
for nature. The film takes viewers to look at irrational policies (not
based on scientific understanding, but on vested interests) in
management of rivers, floods, forests, and urban planning; and
highlights the results of such distorted practices.
SMOG INC. 26 minutes, VHS/VCD, Rs 750 / US $25 While we chase
the American dream of a car for everyone, we pay a heavy price with
health disorders. Cities across India are choking from vehicle exhaust.
A classic documentary that takes an incisive look at the science and
politics of vehicular pollution.
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