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Environmental and ecological issues explored on film

• Future in Fusion
  

  Nuclear fusion - will it produce a limitless source of clean, green energy? Green.tv visits the Culham Science Centre, home of UK fusion research, to find out if fusion is the future.

• Highly Endangered Rhino Moved to Manas
  

  There are only around 1,700 Greater Asian one-horned rhinos left in the world. In February 2008, a one-and-a-half year-old female rhino calf was successfully rehabilitated and relocated to Manas National Park. This calf is only the fourth rhino in the park following 3 others moved by IFAW and partner organization Wildlife Trust of India in the last two years.

• Fairtrade Coffee in Uganda
  

  Here we look at Fairtrade certified coffee producers in Uganda. Fairtrade has helped to improve their quality of life and has helped fund various community projects.

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• Solar Energy
  

  If solar panels are the solution to global warming, why are they not everywhere already? Gwenan Edwards talks to Toby Ferenczi about his research into solar energy at Imperial.

• Congo Expedition
  

  Thanks to their size, strength and intelligence, gorillas face almost no mortal threats from other animals except human beings. Sadly, that's what they're up against in the Congo Basin. Join Conservation International President, Russ Mittermeier, on a journey to discover gorillas in the wild, and meet the communities that are working together to protect these amazing primates.

• The People of Bukit Lawang
  

  In Bukit Lawang, devastating flooding attributed to illegal logging in the surrounding Gunung Leuser National Park caused over 239 deaths in 2003. Since the floods, this village community has been involved in voluntary forest governance enforcement schemes in an attempt to curb illegal logging in the National Park, and has embraced the important role of ecotourism in the preservation of their surrounding forests.

• Protecting the Oceans
  

  If it's raining where you are, the oceans played a role. If you drove to work today, the seas are absorbing the carbon dioxide from your car. No matter where you live on Earth, what you do affects the oceans - and what happens to the oceans affects you.

• Vitya - The Recycling Man
  

  Vitya aims to do three things- explore the environmental theme of recycling, give an insight into the social landscape of rural India, and draw an engaging portrait of a man who lives a full yet uncomplicated life. He comes across as a likeable character. Both confident and humble, generous and honest. By giving an insight into Vitya's life the film also helps to communicate to audiences the atmosphere within a rural Indian village, low-income entrepreneurship within the rural economy, small-scale industry within Indian towns, and the intimate nature and traditional values of the Indian family.

• More For Less
  

  Two men called Martin and Alf have been living over the past few years from the excessive waste generated by people and supermarkets. In a way they have chosen to go against the societal norm of having steady, paid jobs and yet survive well by not participating in the process of earning money and adding to the burden of existing over-consumption in western society which creates far more throwaway waste than we can handle. As they put it 'being content to live off less'. Taking this stand of living leaves them more time to interact with members of the public and communal service.

• Design to make you green with envy
  

  Green.tv visits Cavendish Square in London to see the latest trends in ethical and fairtrade fashion for the upcoming season. From handbags, clothes and shoes to ethical jewellery, eco-fashion is really hitting the mainstream.

• Urban Wind
  

  Stunning timelapse film of the construction of 3 wind turbines at Bristol Port. The turbines will produce over 15 million units of new green electricity annually, enough to save around 13,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year for the next 30 years.

• Jeunesse Park
  

  The United Nations Environment Programme has awarded this year's Sasakawa Prize on the theme of Climate Change to an individual, Jeunesse Park, CEO of Food & Trees for Africa.

• Destination Antarctica
  

  About 30,000 travellers visit Antarctica every year, but should we be there at all? Destination Antarctica looks at the wildlife and landscape of one of the Earth's most fragile environments.

• Sumatra
  

  In the past few decades, Sumatra's lowland forests have shrunk dramatically, from 16 million hectares in 1900 to just 500,000-600,000 hectares today; and if we don't act now, the Harapan Rainforest and its amazing wildlife will be gone in five years. This film details the dangers facing the Sumatran rainforest. To learn more, visit www.rspb.org.uk/sumatra

• The Forests of South East Sulawesi
  

  Local people have developed a sustainable community-based forestry co-operative. The land was purchased by the community and is farmed for teak. The co-operative is the first in Indonesia to achieve Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for sustainability. This has helped to regulate timber production and secure fair prices. However, this forestry program is under continued threat by Indonesia's endemic corruption.

• Sam Suds and the case of PVC - The Poison Plastic
  

  Sam Suds, PI. (Poisons Investigator) protects the Johnson household from dangerous toxins. Word around the bathroom was he was washed up: until she floated in...

• Sri Lankan Rainforests
  

  Sri Lanka's national parks are home to some of the planet's most endangered wildlife and plants. But they're under constant threat from logging and agriculture. The key to their survival is carefully managed tourism.

• Oliver Heath on the Power of Recycling
  

  Renowned British eco-designer Oliver Heath - former presenter of the TV series Changing Rooms - explores the uses of recycled materials in the home - what can be recycled, how to reuse materials in diy projects, and what sort of products made from recycled goods are available.