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Its earth day. when it comes to being green, three states in new england topped the list according to the "wall street journal." so which states could use a refresher course on how to reduce, reuse, recycle? ohio, indiana, and west virginia. well, were all feeling it, right? gas prices skyrocketing, pushing up the cost of almost everything that we buy now. right now the average price of regular is $3.85 a gallon. drivers in several states already paying more than four bucks a gallon. our busin...

Carpet, wood residues from old telephone poles, for example. >> this one right here. it looks like garbage. you can see pieces of yarn and -- >> plastics, which we cant recycle, old telephone poles, rail ties. sulfurs. that is shredded. >> okay. >> all right. in less than four minutes, we zap it and we turn that into ethanol fuel, like that. so we do that using our clean and energy efficient technology that we have evolved. >> can you fuel a car with ethanol? >> you can fuel a car with -- they d...

Sublime architectural element that cascades down the mountain. in my original renderings, i imagined these thin, floating roofs of the wings which are cascading down the ridge to really blend into the landscape rather than a box sitting on the mountain itself. those were really the inspiration for using the wings as floating roofs so theyre not living in the house. theyll be living underneath the wings which are then enclosed with glass. >> you see yourself as an architect, you see some advantag...

Children have a parent in prison and more than half of new looks kids have a family member or friend in a gang. ♪ so instead of surrounding himself with only the good life, the five-time grammy winner immerses himself in their lives. >> start a small recycle thing and it would grow and grow and grow. >> through efforts like his powered by service initiative which he just launched. its a day dedicated to taking kids to places like the georgia aquarium and teaching them about the environment so ...

New look says 1 in 3 of its children have a parent in prison and more than half of new looks kids have a family member or friend in a gang. ♪ you know im loving ♪ your style so instead of surrounding himself with only the good life, the five-time grammy winner immerses himself in their lives. >> start a small recycle thing and it would grow and grow and grow. >> through efforts like his powered by service initiative which he just launched. its a day dedicated to taking kids to places like th...

Issues that everybody wants and everybody wants to collect. batman, number one, is a big deal, because its the first issue of the comic, andle the joker, who everybody knows, made his first appearance there, and it was also the first story ever with catwoman, and those are characters everybody knows and everybody likes. and not many copies of these -- this is from spring 1940, and not much from that era has survived because in world war ii they have the patriotic paper drives that said bring in ...

Another tool. in the federal resources were inaccurate to meet the demand. >> maybe you could explain for us, how would that tool, that california tool, help you do any more than youre currently doing? because if you come across someone who is committing a crime and you find out theyre illegal, you refer them to the federal government. how would this law really have changed anything in the front line? >> well occasionally, we run into what we call frequent fliers. people that we process through ...

Land fill each day. >> shannon: how in the world did you limit yourself do that? you and your husband, two people at least that i know of in 12 months? >> our guiding principle is really that we looked at what we were buying, the packaging before we brought it home and if it wasnt recyclable we didnt buy it. we did without or found an alternative. >> shannon: how tough or easy was this for you? >> well, at first it took some work getting the system in place and researching the recycling option a...

The heat was captured from the production of something else. the arcelormatel steal plant is saving $100 million a year on the electrical bill. as the renewable or green energy gains momentum, the recycle or gray energy did not receive as much attention, in no small parts because it involves big ugly factories and smokestacks. its not environmentally sexy. windmills and solar panels photograph well and enjoy new investment from the federal government. government regulations discourage private in...

The difference from coal is the heat was captured from the production of something else. the arcelormatel steal plant is saving $100 million a year on the electrical bill. as the renewable or green energy gains momentum, the recycle or gray energy did not receive as much attention, in no small parts because it involves big ugly factories and smokestacks. its not environmentally sexy. windmills and solar panels photograph well and enjoy new investment from the federal government. government regul...