Eco Company Teens

Adam visits with a global climate change expert at Chabot Space & Science Center to get the simple facts about global warming and what is causing it.

Jessica visits the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. In this special facility they are building the world's largest laser...actually 192 lasers that create nuclear fusion to create the same kind of energy that happens on the sun. It's 100% clean energy and produces no reactive waste!

There are a lot of ways we can all make a difference. Here's one idea.

Eco Company visits the home of the San Francisco Giants. The Giants are one of the greenest teams in sports from the concession stands, to watering the field, to recycling and transportation to the park!

Teens...as energy specialists? You bet! These teens are trained to do energy audits at residential homes. They learn ways to save energy, water and MONEY for all of us. It's the kind of house call that's greening up the planet...one neighborhood at a time.

Eco Company goes to the Bay Area and the annual Electric Vehicle Rally & Car Show and meet a group of people passionate about their mode of transportation! Jordan gets the scoop on cars, motorcycles, and bikes in ALL shapes and sizes from classic cars to the newest models!

Eco Company hits the road on a bike, but not your ordinary bike. Bikes are a great way to reduce fuel consumption, save energy, get exercise and enjoy the great outdoors. But Brendan found a bike maker who has taken sustainability a step further. He makes his bikes from bamboo instead of aluminum, titanium or other metals. It's a great way to use a renewable resource to make a zero energy form of transportation even more eco-friendly!

Eco Company visits a local farmers market to talk to farmers about growing organic produce. Then Jessica visits an organic farm that specializes in tomatoes and melons…and a whole lot more.

It was an off-shore oil rig eruption near Santa Barbara in 1969 that inspired a group of activists to establish the first Earth Day. Adam speaks one-on-one talk with one of those founders. Denis Hayes says the impact of that first Earth Day was more than they could have hoped for or dreamed about.

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!

Infrared technology, 3D imaging! These are just two ways NASA helps us understand our planet! Especially when it comes to greenhouse gases, and one of them we don't hear much about. Adam brings us the scoop from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory!

What will the car of the future will really be like. Well, the future is NOW and we visit a Hydrogen Fuel Cell research project to see what they look like. These cars are a reality and we'll be seeing them on our roads very soon.

Jessica gets down to earth, quite literally! She learns how restaurant scraps can provide the nitrogen and wonderful nutrients needed to make the compost that goes back to farms and wineries to grow our food.

Jordan visits a company that is making cooking oil, motor oil, biodiesel fuel and regular gas for our cars from Algae...yes ALGAE! Could this be the fuel of the future?

These girls are participating in the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Young Women In Science program. They get their sea legs and head out on the Monterey Bay where they are tracking down trash. Jessica put on her life jacket to join them and see what it is all about.

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

Where does all the plastic and trash go once it gets into the Pacific Ocean? A lot of it ends up in the Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of swirling waters twice the size of Texas. A scientific mission called Project Kaisei takes us out to the Northern Pacific Gyre. What we see there is very shocking.

We found some typical teens who went to the beach...but, not-so-typically, it was a beach in Costa Rica! They're members of the Environmental Science Academy at Oakland High School and their trip to Costa Rica inspired them to do their part to reduce the use of plastic.

Eco Company follows students into class. But it's not your average class! This ones on wheels…18 of them! And they're learning how to cook! It's Chef Jamie Oliver's Big Rig Teaching Kitchen and the meals are all good for you. See what's on the menu today!

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!

We catch up with two Northern California High School students who have created their own line of eco-friendly clothing. Josy and Aza started Leftover Green Beans a few years back when they were asked to create a few dresses for a green New York fashion show. Since then they have continued to design creative fashions from vintage cloth and more.

There a lot of things we can all do to be Eco-Wise. Here's one suggestion.

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

Buildings account for 50% of the country’s energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Eco Company wanted to know what eco-conscious trends are leading the building design and construction industry. So we head out to the new Brower Center in Berkley, CA. Adam gets the VIP tour and learns how this new structure is setting the standard for green building of the future!