The Next, Best West explores our changing relationship with the land that sustains us. It tells the story of how the conventional American concept of progress has steered our exploitation of the Western landscape, and takes you to three places - Colorado's San Luis Valley, the high plains of eastern Montana and the Elwha River on Washington's Olympic Peninsula - where a vibrant new understanding of progress presages a better future.

From the forests of Mexico to the farm lands and cities of North America, learn how successful beekeepers overcome challenges and develop sustainable practices to improve the quality and quantity of honey bee populations.

For centuries cities have been built near a fresh water supply. Without it we'd be lucky to live three days. But this most basic human need can be deadly too - get the supply wrong and it can poison us, get too close and it can drown us. And with every passing year the challenge of providing water to billions of people becomes harder and harder.

Clean water is essential for human existence. However, international requirements are not met by the available supply. This program examines rising global water demand and some of the serious issues with inadequate and/or contaminated water supplies. Incorporating a range of water management case studies from various parts of the world, this video is an ideal resource for students of geography and environmental science.

The U.K.’s more densely populated and growing urban areas are, for the large part, located in regions of the country where rainfall is lower. Conversely, high rainfall occurs in regions where there is less demand. This program explores British water supply and demand and examples of water management programs across the country, including initiatives incorporated into London’s Olympic Park.

In its journey across the majestic Canadian countryside, The Family Farm explores the diverse agricultural pursuits of earnest farm families and serves as a window into the small-scale food production process that modern-day consumers have become estranged from.

Water is essential for life – it provides plants with the ability to create sugar for food and it helps humans regulate body temperatures while nourishing and protecting the brain, spinal cord and other tissues. Water is equally important to the environment due to the intricate balance of the water cycle. This program takes an in-depth look at the chemistry of water, its different states, and how each of them affects the world around us.

A visually stunning story that travels through the ancient lands to unravel the mysteries of the vanishing sea. Today, the Dead Sea is disappearing, its waterline receding year by year. And the fight over this diminishing resource is fueling tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. Upstream in the Jordan Valley, the waters which feed into the Dead Sea have been diverted for agriculture. The impact is being felt by Palestinian farmers who are protesting...

In this program, Jimmy Doherty goes to Brazil, where he discovers how to turn poisoned land into a powerhouse of world food production, joins sugarcane cutters to see how the country has replaced half of its gasoline use with biofuel, and finds a way to save caimans from poachers. In the Amazon, Jimmy meets an unlikely cattle rancher who claims he can save the rain forest.

Set in the foothills of the Appalachians, this film explores one man's vision of using green burials to conserve land. Dr. Billy Campbell, the town's only physician, and his efforts have radically changed our understanding of burials in the United States. Dr. Campbell's dream is to conserve one million acres of land. Dying Green focuses on the revolutionary idea of using our own death to fund land conservation and create wildlife preserves.