Eco Company Teens

At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory they do a lot more than make unmanned spacecrafts. The scientists here spend a lot of time studying the earth, and specifically, climate change and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

What is Ocean Acidification? Let's go to the Eco-Lingo dictionary and learn more.

Over 95% of the clothing sold in the U.S. is made overseas. But we found one woman who would like to change that. Jalena visits Rebecca Burgess on a plot of land she farms. She grows flowers and uses the leaves to make natural dyes.! It's all an effort to buy local...even for your clothes!

One High School in California has a very cool Green Energy Technology Academy. For one project students build is a real product…and it's helping to bring electricity to people around the world!

All of the products we buy and use every day is made of chemicals, built from a molecule and made into a material. At the University of California at Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry they want to make sure all that stuff is safe for humans and for the environment.

Cell phones go out of style like fashion. Everyone wants the latest laptop or tablet. Computers and servers are abandoned like old cars. It's no wonder E-waste recycling has become big business. One company using a Big Green Machine to separates all the different materials for reuse.

We are all accustomed to seeing solar panels on roofs and shading cars in parking lots. But you probably haven't seen mirrored solar panels that focus sunlight to generate heat that powers a large turbine? That's what happens in the Mojave Desert at one of the world's largest concentrated solar power installations. It's quite a sight to see.

Adam visits a Fuel Cell plant and finds out the technology is here NOW and being put to use! They’re producing fuel cell power plants providing power for whole communities!

We found a guy in Connecticut who turns used cooking oil into biodiesel to use in vehicles AND to run a power plant! He wanted to do something with the used grease his restaurant was throwing out. Now it's a green business of its own.

Students in Thousand Oaks, California started the organization Students for Solar Schools. Their quest, to get solar panels for their own high school, grew into a network of high schools across the nation working together to bring solar power to education!

Santa Monica High School's Team Marine recycles plastics for cash to buy lifestraws for 3rd world countries.

We talk about it. But is renewable energy? The Eco-Lingo dictionary will help us out.

It's off to Nebraska to visit Arbor Day Farm, a place to celebrate the wonder of trees. But there's a lot more going here than meets the eye. We're talking hazelnuts...and we're here to learn all about it.

At Goodwin Technical High School students are being prepared for green jobs! They're getting valuable experience by constructing a green building from the ground up including solar panels that provide the electrical power!

We all know what it means to live "large." But we found one teen aspiring to live SMALL! He's building his own "mini house." IIt's a home that minimizes the resident's footprint on the planet.

Eco Company visits San Francisco's Garden for the Environment to learn about the Urban Youth Sprouts program. In this program teens find out what growing food sustainably is all about. They grow vegetables, learn about food systems, and how to live a healthier lifestyle.

We all love the beach. But we're probably unaware of the critters that live beneath the sand. These critters can be an important part of the the balance of nature. We found some teens looking for sand crabs and documenting the ebb and flow of its population. It's a real story of budding scientists.

When you think of NASA you think of space, right. Well, they're using their satellites and their scientific brain power to study the Earth's oceans as well! We talked to NASA scientists who are studying changes in ocean temps and what it's doing to our coastlines and beaches.

A raft made of 15,000 plastic bottles? Sailing from Los Angeles to Hawaii? Yep...Marcus Erickson, Joel Paschal and Anna Cummins did just that. Check it out.

Did you know that idling your car for more than :10 wastes more gas that restarting? Learn more!

High School students in California started the organization Students for Solar Schools. Their quest to get solar panels for their own high school grew into a network of high schools across the nation working together to bring solar power to education!

Project Open Hand prepares 2600 meals everyday of the year for senior citizens and others in need. Their operation requires a lot of energy. But they do a lot to reduce energy consumption and their carbon footprint while serving sustainable and organic meals to so many.

The second largest wetland restoration project in the U.S. is located along the San Francisco Bay where a salt production company used the natural area for solar salt production. But what remains now is an eco-wasteland. On this day a group of teens have volunteered their time to remove unwanted vegetation and plant seedlings natural to the habitat.

We hear a lot about the ozone. Let's go to the Eco-Lingo dictionary to see what it really is.

Project Open Hand is a place that's hustling and bustling all day long. They prepare 2600 meals everyday of the year for senior citizens and others in need. Their operation requires a lot of energy. But they do a lot to reduce energy consumption and their carbon footprint while serving sustainable and organic meals to so many.