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>> reporter: as you walk through skanska's uk headquarters outside london, you can't miss the green awards, including its prize as top green construction firm last year from the "sunday times." or the green wall with skanska's own shades from light to deep where uk's ceo mike putnam explains where each construction project falls on its own green scale. is it your company can go deep green or is it more realistically to say we're here, we're moving this way but the projects themselves will be a different shade of green. >> a combination ever that. the journey is to deep green. that's how we des...

Likely i would have been back in the streets. >> reporter: but his future now is a career in green construction. >> i'm able to work and contribute back to society. they saved me. >> reporter: so far, nearly 300 students have graduated. and although the oil disaster in the gulf is a long way from here, 15 of the graduates were hired to help clean it up. as they say, hang it forward. in bronx, new york, poppy harlow reporting. >> great story, great big i for us. we're always talking about briefings. got briefings on capitol hill and briefings here in the gulf because of the oil spill. this is t...

>> let me ask rick here. rick, when you look at what we're talking about, big picture, let's look at the proposals that are possibly in the president's plan. payroll tax cut extension, as jared said, hiring tax cuts and incentives, green construction, rehabilitations of schools, mortgage refinancing. many of us that have been supportive of the president? many areas, saying he should go all the way, big pictures, and throw it at the republicans and see if your party would oppose this. one reason is because we need a big picture, but the other is because it seems that no matter what he does, the...