locals only shooting club as it s called in german, the immigrants that started this rustic fraternity back in 1912. club leader takes me through the fascinating process of creating an old school clam bake. build the kiln with hard wood and stone. burn it down, remove the wood, cover with seaweed and corn husks. we put clams, lobsters, corn in there like a pressure cooker. we ve got a pig also? no, no. we re going to pull a tester out. you can see a what we ve got here. let s eat. all right. first, some good chowder. there really is only one kind of chowder, new england clam shoulder. that is good. steamer clams, lobster, corn,
trash, food and all, and turn it into glass. the laboratory fridge is packed with a treasure-trove of leftovers. you have coffee, this is plain grass. we can eat the food and then use the waste to create materials that we need. reporter: lead researcher dr. ivan says worldwide demand for glass is booming. right now global usage stands at about 100 metric tons a year. the high-value minerals used to manufacture glass are normally dug out of mining pits. what we have done is that we can find the same material that the mining industry can provide today from a different source. reporter: in other words, food that grows from the ground is absorbing the same minerals. plants extract this from the ground, essentially. so in effect, the plants are doing the mining for us. reporter: items like egg shells, banana peels, peanut shells, corn husks get ground
today a massive multinational food conglomerate making a move away from fossil fuel. pepsico, the bottle made of plant material, like pine park, corn husks. traditional plastic bottles made from using fossil fuel by-products from petroleum. and those obviously are not getting cheaper or less toxic. pepsi hopes to reduce its carbon footprint and avoid rising oil costs and a pr boost. the new bottles cost the same as the old bottles and are fully recyclable. the new bottle. coming to a permarket near you in 2012. next, future of america s nuclear industry. new debate about safety and policy after the japan disaster, particularly for places like diablo canyon north of santa barbara on a fault line on the
right cranked it. when you were young did you like stay by the kitchen, dad more the cook, mom, who did a lot of the cooking. when i was really young my grandmother did a lot of the cooking, the mexican old recipes. then she taught it to my mom, she s irish but she thinks she s mexican. and she fully inherited them. so we have this. we have the dough its flavored and delicious and we have the corn husks soaking in water. you want them soaking when you start in really hot water. how long do you soak them for? when you get the corn husks from the store they re going to be hard and tight so this makes them pliable and flexible and easy to work with. we have our filling, our cheese, monterey jack cheese, our olives and our chilies. first step is to pick a corn husk that fits in the palm of your hand. the husks have two different sides so its important to have the smooth side up.
but don t need it now. you don t think that the media is pointing out that children were dying? we would figure it out. we don t need the government to do it. but we need corporate america to figure it out on its own. not an agency that is wasting money. they are out to help with fuel from the vehicles and do we need to reevaluate how they are managed by the epa. i have no idea how we get on dying children, but that is what happens. when you don t have contacts and facts, you bring them down to a emotional argument and that is kids are dying and corn husks and they biodegreat . we are talking about the enzymes that break them down in over two days. and yet the epa is focused on