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Sun, Wind and Wood

This short documentary film illustrates the various ways people fight the high cost of energy by devising ingenious ways to use wood, the sun, and the wind. The film highlights one such project named the Ark. Using natural systems only, this bio-shelter ingeniously provides housing, heat, food and electricity for an entire family.
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This short documentary film illustrates the various ways people fight the high cost of energy by devising ingenious ways to use wood, the sun, and the wind. The film highlights one such project named the Ark. Using natural systems only, this bio-shelter ingeniously provides housing, heat, food and electricity for an entire family.

Environment and Conservation Technology Architecture Politics and Government - Canada All subjects
Our Planet in Focus All channels
  • director
    Dorothy Todd Henaut
  • producer
    Edward Le Lorrain
    Margaret Pettigrew
  • executive producer
    Kathleen Shannon
  • commentary
    Donald Winkler
  • camera
    Don Virgo
  • animation camera
    Simon Leblanc
  • sound
    Claude Beaugrand
  • editing
    Janice Brown
  • sound editing
    Margaret Wong
  • re-recording
    Jean-Pierre Joutel
  • narrator
    Marguerite McDonald
  • music
    Larry Crosley
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