Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Today, Animals in the Family introduces us to the pygmy hippopotamus which, is just a fraction of the size of the hippo that most of us know and love!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Animals in the Family continues its exploration of the pygmy hippopotamus which, is just a fraction of the size of the hippo that most of us know and love!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Animales en familia takes a closer look at coatis in captivity. Also known as Brazilian aardvarks, these diurnal mammals native to South America, Central America and south-western North America are in the raccoon family.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Animals in the Family takes us through the process of examining and putting an identifying microchip into Nacahué, a docile macaw.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Animals in the Family takes us through the process of putting an identifying microchip into Nacahué, a docile macaw.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
After being separated from her for the first time to receive its first vaccination, a leopard cub is reunited with its mother.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
After being separated from her for the first time to receive her first vaccination, a leopard cub is reunited with her mother.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
Meet and learn about the various types of lemurs in the Madagascar area of Bioparc in Spain.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
In the second part of this series, we see the rest of the process of making the alternative car fuel, biodiesel, with some students from the Rodriguez Casado Institute in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Spain.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The Ideas Club presents eclectic news briefs on student map-making contests, a dedicated dancer of many styles, climate change and a forestry training program for unemployed workers.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
De consumidor a persona means “From consumer to person,” and that’s a transformation of psyche the world may need to undertake if it’s going to survive peak ecological crises. Un Solo Mundo Produciones is a production company in Granada, Spain that produces engaging films revolving around social and environmental themes important to the planet as a whole.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Is organic farming still ecological when excessive resources are spent to ship goods halfway around the world? Why are ecologically-oriented producers more subject to government oversight than those using environmental contaminants?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Reducir, reutilizar, y reciclar: most of us have heard it in English, and here we hear it in Spanish. These women explain to us the “three R's” to combat the excessive amount of waste that we generate.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Transgenic, or genetically modified, crops are a marginal issue for most people in the United States. This is not the case in Europe, where the issue of transgénicos is very much in the forefront of the public's mind.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Comercio Justo, or “Fair Trade” products are often seen in “socially conscious” retailers like health and “whole” food shops. It presents a novel approach to doing business that takes into account social and environmental factors in its pricing to consumers and directly compensates commodity food producers, like coffee and cocoa farmers. Here proponents explain the philosophy from several different vantage points.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Can an educated public really create a kinder, gentler, consumer society? Do informed buyers make decisions more sensitive to their world? Can you have your cake and eat it too? Some activists think that voracioius consumers need not be subdued, but only that their desires be tweaked, redirected…
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Do those who control the wealth in a society also dictate its desires? In this segment we’re able to listen in on the discourse of Spanish intellectuals critical of the modern consumer culture, which they see as something of a Svengali-like oppressor and manipulator of the masses.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Can a consumer-driven market be replaced by an informed system of mutual cooperation by a like-minded populace? Is the market always at odds with the well being of the planet? Is it true that otro mundo es possible? Let’s find out what some experts think…
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Fermín attends a plant fair at the Estepona Orchidarium, where he asks some botanical experts to talk to us about some interesting and exotic plants.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Now we'll hear from a representative of "Begonias y más" [Begonias and More], a company that specializes in Begonias and other exotic plants, who will tell us, among other things, about a Begonia named after a famous Star Wars character, as well as a cactus with the nickname "mother-in-law's cushion"!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Argentina, Spain
Crew members of Greenpeace's ship, the Rainbow Warrior III, from Spain and Argentina tell us a bit about their duties and give us a tour of some areas of the ship where they are performed.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Various members of Greenpeace explain the activities that are taking place aboard the Rainbow Warrior III: expositions, concerts and even a sustainable dinner prepared by a prestigious chef!
Difficulty: Advanced
Ecuador
Modesto Nicolas Gomez Burgos shows us how organic brown sugar is produced at the Santa Barbara factory located in Imbabura, Ecuador.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
In this first episode of Kikiriki Notizine (a news and magazine show), we'll meet its reporters and characters, who will introduce the topics they are going to speak about.
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