The Phoenix Botanical Garden used to give classes on such things; I attended one.

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[Short Film] Harvesting the Future"#Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The #TohonoOodham people have used #AkChin farming, a form of #DryFarming, to grow crops for thousands of years. In this short documentary by #WenonaBenally and #SalBaldenegro from Tucson, #Arizona, cultural experts demonstrate these traditional practices and implementations for future community planning."

Watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=BXyYr24tRy…

#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #WaterIsLife #IndigenousHistory #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #ClimateChange #HarvestingTheFuture #FoodSecurity

The Open University was founded by the Labour government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson was a strong advocate, using the vision of Michael Young. Planning commenced in 1965 under Minister of State for Education Jennie Lee, who established a model for the OU as one of widening access to the highest standards of scholarship in higher education, and set up a planning committee consisting of university vice-chancellors, educationalists and television broadcasters, chaired by Sir Peter Venables. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Assistant Director of Engineering at the time James Redmond, had obtained most of his qualifications at night school, and his natural enthusiasm for the project did much to overcome the technical difficulties of using television to broadcast teaching programmes. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University

And here's a treasure trove of stuff that someone has organised on archive.org
Here's the "home page" and here's the index page. The file names speak for themselves.
#openuniversity
#ou
#education
#publictelevision
#archiveorg
#uk

Remembering NICAM: Deep-Dive Into A Broadcasting Legacy

#history #teardown #mts #nicam #publictelevision #zweikanalton #hackaday
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Remembering NICAM: Deep-Dive Into A Broadcasting Legacy

Although for many the introduction of color television would have seemed to be the pinnacle of analog broadcast television, the 1970s saw the development of stereo audio systems to go with TV broad…