MPG is Deceptive

"People pretty much rank order things in terms of linear improvement in miles per gallon. So, the bigger improvement in miles per gallon, that's what they think is better. That turns out not to be the case. mathematically."

"If we stick with the idea that they drive both vehicles a hundred miles per week, we can just simply ask, 'How much gas is being used?', based on each of the current vehicles.

Before the Whites

"We have taught our children, the Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the sons of the Earth. This we know. The Earth does not belong to man. Man belongs to Earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which connects one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the sons of the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle

"From the coastlines to the mountains the abundance of the Earth determined the roots of culture. Each animal, each tree and rock has a spirit and a history. Our shamans and our priests knew the secrets and the powers of the natural world. Our identity was our landscape. And our landscape was sacred..."

Alberta's Oil Sands

And over the next 10 years up to 50 billion dollars will be invested to develop it. It is the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta, Canada. This is the story from its discover through to the present day.

There are at lease 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the oil sands, about 15 percent more than the proven oil supply in Saudi Arabia. Canada produces as much oil per day as Kuwait and is the number one supplier of oil to the United States.

"Pay Dirt: Alberta's Oil Sands - Making the Unconventional Conventional" tells the dramatic story behind the development of the Alberta oil sands, the largest oil reserve in the world, projected to one day yield five million barrels of oil a day.

Francis Martin Duncan

"In August 1903, this film made its debut at the Alhambra Theater in London. It's stars are cheese mites crawling through a piece of Stilton. But on the big screen they looked a lot more like 8-legged aliens. It wa an instant hit and marked the beginning of science and nature film making."

"The original film is just a minute long and it just shows cheese mites shot down a microscope. There has been a story put about that the cheese manufacturers complained about the cheese mites film."

"'Cheese Mites' was produced by Francis Martin Duncan, an amateur natural historian, who had previously published books on how to take photos through microscopes..."