Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Kanopy: Celebrating Earth Day


Celebrate Earth Day with Kanopy, a streaming service that is free to use with your WPL card. Watch films about the issues our planet faces or dive into the lives of fascinating insects and animals! Sign in to mywpl.kanopy.com to watch on your computer or download the Kanopy app to watch on your mobile device or smart TV. Click here for directions on how to create an account. 


Saving the Dead Sea 

As the Dead Sea shrinks, engineers prepare a daring solution: connect it with the Red Sea by way of a massive desalination plant. If it works, it could stabilize the lake and ease regional tensions, but will it put the environment at risk?

Wilder Than Wild 

Reveals how fuel build-up and climate change have exposed Western woodlands to megafires and how the greenhouse gases released from the fires contribute to global warming. 



The Pollinators 

A journey around the United States following migratory beekeepers and their truckloads of honey bees as they pollinate the flowers that become the fruits, nuts and vegetables we all eat. The many challenges the beekeepers and their bees face en route reveal flaws to our simplified chemically dependent agriculture system. 

Straws

Illustrates how individuals, groups, and businesses around the globe are reducing plastic straw use through education, collaboration, policy development and utilization of non-plastic alternatives. 


Learning to See: The world of insects 

In this documentary shot by photographer Jake Oelman  over a twelve year period, the audience travels deep into the rain forests of South America to discover the world's most exotic insects.



Taking Root

The story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy-a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.


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