Sustainability in Civil Engineering

A searchable database containing full-length educational films and film clips. Try searching for "whaling", "Moby Dick", or "Herman Melville".

Contains presentations by leading scientists, designers, and engineers on problems facing the world in the 21st century.

A concise overview of concrete's large carbon footprint, and how materials engineers are seeking to reduce it (14 min).

"This program profiles CO2 Zero, an eco-friendly housing development in the UK, focusing on its use of recycled plastics and FSC-certified wood (25 min)."

A documentary examines innovations that have made this Brazilian city one of the world's most sustainable (55 min).

Hamburg's HafenCity and Tianjin Eco-City as models of sustainable urban planning (27 min).

Homes "engineered to stay comfortable year-round by exploiting sunlight in winter and shielding against it in summer, with minimal operating costs (33 min)."

This documentary film explores global fossil fuel and sustainable energy demands (98 min.)

How urban farms are eliminating transportation burdens while providing jobs and food to inner cities (27 min).