Eco Company visits the campus of Santa Clara University where a team of students participate in a biannual competition called the Solar Decathlon sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. What do they have to do to win? They must design and build the greenest, most energy efficient ...
Eco Company is covering a lot of ground, from the Breaking Ground Conference in San Francisco, to Students for Solar Schools in Thousand Oaks, to an insect museum at the University of California Davis, to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. First Brendan and Jordan find ...
In this episode Eco Company visits the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Jessica explores their rain forest dome and finds out why rain forests are so important to the delicate balance of our world-wide eco system. Then Adam takes a quick detour to visit ...
They call themselves the Creek Geeks, They're students from Loma Linda High School in Sacramento, CA, and they are the force behind the Arcade Creek Project. They do it all...habitat restoration, vertebrate (bird) cataloging, creek mapping, and biological assessment. It's all in a day's ...
Eco Company goes back to the beach... and for good reason! Surfing is very popular along the West Coast. But have you ever thought about the materials in Surfboards? Jessica found one guy who not only gave it some thought, but began making surfboards with non-toxic and ...
Eco Company visits a local farmers market to check out the bounty of locally grown organic produce. There are a lot of reasons to buy organic and to buy local, but we wanted to hear and see for ourselves. So Jessica went out to an organic farm that specializes in tomatoes and melons... ...
Eco Company travels to Southern California to visit the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Algalita has been conducting research about plastic in the Earth's oceans for 15 years. Sailing on the foundation's 50 foot catamaran, the Algalita, researchers have traveled around the globe to ...
From ancient civilizations to current day metropolitan cities, all societies have been shaped by the struggle to control water. The future of humankind will be shaped by the element of water and this struggle for control will establish the balance between peace and war, profoundly ...
Meet Gerty, a Volkswagen Beetle. But she's not an ordinary Beetle. That's because the Bheda Family greened her up!! It was total family project. They tore out the old gas engine and put in a new electric motor. No easy task! And as Jalena found out, the project had it's share of ...
Incredible amounts of ice are melting in the Arctic and the warmer temperatures have made it possible to sail all the way around Svalbard, the northern most civilization in the world. These Arctic islands are the best place to see what happens to nature when global warming spreads. ...
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