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The Future: Engineering for Sustainability.

Look beyond recycling to the higher goal of sustainability. Then close the course by considering the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003. Caused by inadequately pruned trees and a software bug, this cascading sequence of infrastructure failures holds important lessons for the world of everyday engineer...

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Corporate Authors: Great Courses (Firm),$4dst, Kanopy (Firm),$4dst
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses, 2015.
Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Subjects:
Engineering.
Internet videos.
Educational films.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video
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Summary:Look beyond recycling to the higher goal of sustainability. Then close the course by considering the Great Northeast Blackout of 2003. Caused by inadequately pruned trees and a software bug, this cascading sequence of infrastructure failures holds important lessons for the world of everyday engineering..
Item Description:Title from title frames.
Film
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time:00:30:11
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.