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DVDs come from different regions and use different TV standards which mean not everyone may be able to play them. Hopefully these notes will help you make the right choice.

Standards

PAL & NTSC are two very different encoding methods for TV signals. NTSC is the US standard and locks to their electricity supply which is at 60 cycles per second. PAL is the UK standard and locks to our electricity supply which is at 50 cycles per second.

DVD Regions

DVDs have a region encoded onto them so that commercial products can't be pirated by other parts of the world. In theory they will only play in the region encoded. Region 0 has no coding and can be played anywhere in the world, subject to it being the correct standard. Region 1 is encoded for the USA and Canada and will be in NTSC. Region 2 is encoded for the UK, Europe, Egypt, Arabia, Japan & S Africa and will be in PAL Except for Japanese DVDs which may be in NTSC. Region 3 is for Korea, Thailand & Borneo. Region 4 is for Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean & S. America. Region 5 is for India, Africa, Russia & former USSR countries. Region 6 is China. 7 is unused, 8 airlines & cruise ships, 9 can be used as region free.

Compatibility

If you live in the correct region and use the same TV standard there will be no problem. If you live in another region and/or use a different TV standard you will need to check the compatibility of your equipment. For instance if you live in the UK and want to play a region 1, NTSC disc you will need a multiregion DVD player with NTSC to PAL decoding or a multiregion player and a TV which accepts NTSC signals. Some computers can play all types of DVD, but others either don't or require software switching from one region/standard to another. In any case please check your systems capability before purchasing.

DVDs

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	THE AGRICULTURAL REBEL (Der Agrar Rebell) Permaculture In The Saltzburg Alps Bertram Verhaag Introducing Sepp Holzer, the permaculture farming genius, who grows top and soft fruit plus poly-cultures of vegetables on his forest farm at 1500m in the Austrian Alps. He demonstrates perma-culture in terms of broadscale farming and horticulture, and shows how he integrates domesticated and wild animals, heritage grain crops plus aquaculture systems.This is permaculture and forest farming at its very best. 1 DVD. 43 mins. PAL. Region: 0. English, German & Spanish DVD-TAR £24.95 add to cart

	THE ALLOTMENT Wild Fire Productions Organic, local and grown by you – a 15 part series in which Jane Moore and David Cemlyn demonstrate the benefits and fun of growing your own fruit and veg alongside other members of your local community. Each DVD is divided into clearly labelled sections taking you through the seasons and giving invaluable advice from choosing a suitable plot, clearing the site, building a shed to pruning fruit trees and trading on LETS. Great recycling ideas and advice by experienced allotment holders like permaculture teacher Mike Feingold! 3 DVDs. 5 hours 30 mins. PAL. Region: 2 DVD-TAD £19.95 add to cart

	ANCIENT FUTURES Learning From Ladakh + Paradise With Side Effects ISEC First, the award-winning film based on Helena Norberg-Hodge’s book, with live footage from Ladakh. Then a new documentary following two Ladakhi women on a trip to England as part of an International Society For Ecology & Culture (ISEC) ‘reality tour’, introducing Ladakhi participants to everyday life in the West as it really is, thereby helping to balance some of the glamorised images of the modern world. Very moving and inspiring. 1 DVD. 1 hour 40 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-AFL £19.95 add to cart

	BRIDGING INDUSTRY TO PERMACULTURE Directed by Mark Russell Berns An inspiring documentary presenting solutions for climate change and peak oil. It covers international examples of permaculture, sustainable living and new renewable technologies, small and large-scale. Intelligently presents the potential for a sustainable and abundant future. 1 DVD. 56mins. NTSC. Region: 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 DVD-BIP £14.95 add to cart

	CATCH & COOK with Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall & Nick Fisher A complete guide to sea and shellfish that can be caught off Dorset’s Jurassic coast throughout the year, from mackerel in spring, to black bream and bass in summer and autumn early winter squid. With sections on preparing the fresh catch, home smoking, a feast of recipes (70 minutes of brand new footage) plus a best of River Cottage fish fun and good counsel about putting back what you don’t eat. 1 DVD. 100mins. PAL. Region: 2 DVD-CAC £21.95 add to cart

	A CONVENIENT TRUTH A Story Of Hope From Curitiba, Brazil Giovanni Vaz Del Bello / Maria Terezinha Vaz An important film about a marvellous city and its people called Curitiba where the problems of poverty, seasonal flooding, waste, transport and slums have been solved with little money but much political will and many ground breaking ideas. If you have any concern about what is happening to our planet Earth and wonder if there are any solutions to our present problems, you need to see this film. It’s uplifting! 1 DVD. 52mins. NTSC. Region: 0 DVD-CTU £16.95 add to cart

	DRY STONE WALLING with Andy Radford A thoroughly comprehensive and easy to follow guide; Andy Radford gives a history of dry stone walling in the UK and then clearly demonstrates all you need to know to build or repair a wall. Chapters on Tools and Safety, Dismantling the wall, Preparation and Foundations, Grading Stones, Laying Foundations and Building the wall take you through step by step. 1 DVD. 82mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-DSW £19.95 add to cart

	THE END OF SUBURBIA Oil Depletion & The Collapse Of The American Dream Electric Wallpaper Company A brutally honest exploration of how the American suburban dream will collapse when rocketing fuel prices destroy the sprawling drive-in culture. This film tells it like it really is. It strips away the denial of peak oil and lays bare where we are, and it’s not a comfortable message to hear. This is not a feel-good movie, it is a deeply sobering wake-up call. Get a copy and organise a screening in your community. Everyone needs to see it. 1 DVD. I hour 18mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-ESO £12.95 add to cart

	FOREST GARDENING With Robert Hart Also Featuring Ken Fern of Plants For A Future, & Mike & Julia Guerra. Directed by Malcolm Baldwin 45 years ago the late Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small food-producing forest, which could fulfil the needs of a healthy diet and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound environment. This film explores his practical and philosophical ideas and looks at 2 other projects inspired by the principles of forest gardening and perennial vegetable growing. Ken Fern’s plot in Cornwall where he grows 1500 species of useful perennials and North of London Mike and Julia Guerra have created a small garden as an inspiration to anyone who wants to act locally. 1 DVD. 50 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-FGR £15.00 add to cart

	THE FUTURE OF FOOD There's A Revolution Happening. Deborah Koons Garcia An excellent wake up call to remind us why we are striving for a sustainable future and why our choices as consumers are so important. Giving a voice to the farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been destroyed by unlabelled GM patented food that has silently been filling our supermarket shelves for the past decade; this film explores the health implications of GM food, government policies and global influence of multinational corperations that seek to control the world’s food system. Informative, educational and motivating!y. 1 DVD. 2 hours 8 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-FOF £19.95 add to cart

	THE GLOBAL GARDENER With Bill Mollison Bullfrog Films A series of four half-hour programs on a single DVD. Each episode looks at examples of permaculture in different bioregions: the tropics, arid lands, cool climates and urban. With footage filmed in Australia, Africa, USA and Europe, these films have introduced thousands of people to permaculture design and Bill Mollison’s vision. Essential viewing! 1 DVD. 1 hour 52 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-GG £21.95 add to cart

See also Earthships Vol.1,2 &3	GARBAGE WARRIOR Oliver Hodge Charts Michael Reynolds’ architectural journey and the evolution of his earthships concept. Beer can and rammed tyre houses, the introduction of passive solar design and thermal gain, and renewable technology. The final result is dwellings that require no heating systems even at minus 30ºF in winter, are completely autonomous in water and sewage treatment and have large indoor growing spaces. All this experimentation has been despite years of legal struggles with the authorities in New Mexico. A gritty, stunning and inspirational film. A must for earthship fans everywere! 1 DVD. 1 hour 24 mins. PAL. Region: 2 DVD-GWA £19.95 add to cart

	AN INTRODUCTION TO BEEKEEPING with Paul Metcalf This DVD shows you all the routine tasks in the hive from April until the onset of winter. Paul Metcalf has been keeping bees for over 50 years; he assumes some prior knowledge of terminology etc. but his instructions are clear and extremely easy to understand for anyone who has taken a basic course or read one of the books. Includes swarm control, disease control, honey extraction and feeding, identifying brood, finding eggs, marking the queen and much more. An excellent way to build confidence working with your own colonies. 1 DVD. 1 hour 40 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-ITB £19.95 add to cart

	JOANNA MACY The Work That Reconnects Joanna Macy Intensives This DVD set presents oral teachings and experiential methods of The Work That Reconnects to transform despair in the face of societal and ecological crises into positive, creative action. This is brilliant, profoundly spiritual work by Joanna Macy. Used the world over to empower people, the DVDs are a tool for activists, educators, caring professionals, clergy, trainers and anyone who is worried about Planet Earth. Invaluable inspiration for the Great Turning. 2DVDs. 4 hours 21 mins. NTSC. Region: 0 DVD-WTR £27.95 add to cart

	MOTHER EARTH A New Future For Small Farmers Paul Enkelaar & Jan Paul Smit The message behind this film is one of the upmost importance and one which we would like to be spread far and wide: One that shows the story of hope within the solidarity and strength of women working together, in a truely sustainable way. From a common situation of the cash for mono crops system, relying on unstable government subsidies, working alone and existing in poverty, to combining land, resources, swapping seeds, creating crop diversity, harvesting together and providing food for their families and local community. 1 DVD. 30 mins. PAL. Region: 0. English & Telugu; English or Dutch Subtitles DVD-MEN £14.95 add to cart

	ONE MAN, ONE COW, ONE PLANET Tom & Barbera Burstyn Hoes rather than swords are at the frontline of a battle for agricultural control that is being fought over Indian soil. Its outcome could well determine the future of the entire earth. Using biodynamic-organic methods, farmers of India are reclaiming their lands and livelihood. This documentary focuses on how to address the agricultural crisis that the world faces and explores what an environmentally sustainable food system capable of feeding everyone actually looks like. 1 DVD. 56 mins. PAL. Region: 0. DVD-OMO £16.95 add to cart

	PERMACULTURE IN PRACTICE Ecologically Sound Living - By Design Directed by Malcolm Baldwin Now available as a DVD, this aims to inspire people to start their own permaculture projects. With four examples in very different settings in the UK; the Editors of Permaculture Magazine’s back garden in Hampshire, a housing estate in Bradford tackling problems of unemployment, environmental awareness and backyard food-growing, a community co-op in Devon and a small farm in the Forest of Dean supplying local produce. Filmed in 1997. 1 DVD. 48 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-PIP £15.00 add to cart

	PIG IN A DAY with Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall & Ray Smith A thorough grounding in small-scale pig rearing and a complete guide to butchering and processing a pig from nose to tail, so no part is wasted. You don’t have to keep pigs to enjoy this DVD, just be a pig and pork enthusiast who wants to find out how and why the best pork comes from the happiest pigs. With footage from the River Cottage TV series plus new material. 1 DVD. 140mins. PAL. Region: 2 DVD-PID £21.95 add to cart

	THE POWER OF COMMUNITY How Cuba Survived Peak Oil The Community Solution This is the story of the Cuban people’s hardship after they lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s. In their own words the people tell of their ingenuity and triumph over sudden adversity – through co-operation, conservation and community. It is a model of how to create a low-energy society using permaculture, transforming fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farms and ur from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one that fosters better education and health care. "Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film" Richard Heindburg 1 DVD. 53mins. NTSC. Region: 0 DVD-PCH £14.95 add to cart

	SEPP HOLZER'S PERMACULTURE Farming With Nature, Farming With Water, Farming With Terraces & Raised Beds Crystal Lake Video These films describe Sepp Holzer’s extraordinary permaculture farm in Alpine Austria. In average annual temperatures of a mere 4.2ºC (39.5ºF), Sepp Holzer grows everything from apricots to eucalyptus, figs to kiwi fruit, peaches to wheat at an altitude of between 1,000 and 1,500 metres (3,300 and 4,900ft). Sepp has developed aquaculture ponds and comprehensive terracing and created an astonishingly abundant environment. 1 DVD. 1 hour 32 mins. PAL. Region: 2 Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Polish & Russian. DVD-SHP £23.95 add to cart

	THE SOLAR POWER VILLAGE And The Idea Of The Global Campus Nigel Dickinson Tamera Ecovillage, Portugal, presents a model for a solar peace village for social and ecological sustainability, decentralised energy and food grown in harmony with nature. The film also shows their cutting edge solar technology, developed by Jürgen Kleinwächter, that heats oil, stores it, uses it for cooking, electricity production via a low-temperature Stirling engine and water pumping with the SUNpulse – another adaptation of the Stirling principle. 1 DVD. 25 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-SPV £16.95 add to cart

Click cover for preview	VOICES OF COHOUSING Building Small Villages In The City Matthieu Lietaert One of today’s biggest paradoxes, is that half of the world’s population lives in cities, yet many feel lonely and do not know their neighbours... Imagine 20 households, each with its own dwelling, but all sharing some common rooms and activities. Urban and rural cohousing schemes make life easier and more fun for both adults and children, while preserving privacy. This documentary, based on interviews conducted in 14 cohousings, shows that another life is possible. This dvd also has a 22 min. practical advise section. 1 DVD. 59 mins. PAL. Region: 0 Subtitles: German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian & Swedish. DVD-VCB £16.95 add to cart

	WE ARE TRAFFIC & THE RETURN OF THE SCORCHER Ted White We Are Traffic! Chronicles the development of the bicycle movement, Critical Mass. By demonstrating a vibrant alternative to cities choked with cars, Critical Mass organises cycling events, filling the streets with bikes. They are vibrant, pollution-free social spaces that over-flowing with camaraderie and they spread from San Francisco to 300 cities in 14 countries. In the 1890s, before the infernal combustion engine, bicycles were called ‘scorchers’ because of their blazing speed. Over a century later Return of the Scorcher discovers an inspired cycling renaissance. Shot in China, Europe and the US, it full of ideas and designs for sustainable transport, romance, social transformation and feminism. Perfect Transition City material... 1 DVD. 78 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-WAT £19.95 add to cart

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