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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 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

	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

	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

	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

	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

	MAKING LIVING WILLOW SCULPTURES Hands On Video Steve Pickup take you through the process of making a living willow structure, showing you: how to choose an appropriate location; preparation of the site; how to plant the willow rods; the different weaving techniques, and how best to care for your finished structure. Using his ‘universal weave’ technique he shows how to make an arch and fedge (living willow fence/hedge). Once mastered, this technique will allow you to make play domes for children and cool, shady arbours. The extras include making other structures, tools and materials. Very clear and filled with detail. 1 DVD. 1 hour 15 mins. PAL. Region: 0 DVD-MLW £19.95 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

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