Eco Company TV Episodes

When you think of Yale University you probably don't think farming. That's because you haven't heard about the Yale Sustainability Food Project. As Adam discovered, students grow food on a one acre plot on the Yale campus. Yale students are learning about sustainability in a way that you can't learn in a classroom. Meanwhile Jordan visits the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She tours their new building built sustainably...as you can imagine!

This special episode of Eco Company features the best of the teen videos from Planet Connect's annual video contest. Teens from Hawaii to Massachusetts submitted their video that demonstrated an "Ocean Connection," how our actions can affect the environmental health of the oceans. The videos selected to be highlighted in this show demonstrated great creativity and a variety of approaches...from demonstrations and animations to dramatic presentations and...even a little dance!

It's a story everyone should see!! Household toxins...paints, aerosols, pesticides, insecticides, household cleaners, batteries, CFLs...many with dangerous carcinogens. What to do with them? How to get rid of them so they don't get into the environment and our water supplies. Take a few minutes to watch this story.

We all know to recycle...at least the basics...paper, glass & plastic. But what happens to all that stuff? How does it get reused? We decided to find out how all the plastic we recycle gets made into something else. So into a plastics recycling center we went.

What better place to learn about conservation than the zoo! Jordan visits the Oakland Zoo to learn about their conservation efforts around the world. She meets up with Teen Wild Guides and gets up close and personal with Squirrel Monkeys! It was a great day at the a zoo.

Teens taking action everywhere we go! First up, Jessica meets the teens behind Students For Solar Schools. They started the organization which is a network of schools working together to get solar power installed at their school facilities. They started with their very own Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks, California. It was an achievement they'll never forget.

Traveling around the globe to trawl for plastic in the 5 major gyres. That's what researchers from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation have been doing and what they've found is shocking. 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 gone where plastic debris gathers. Eco Company travels to Southern California to visit the Algalita lab and see all of the plastic "confetti" which is meticulously catalogued and analyzed.

It's teens to the rescue, restoring a creek, a redwood grove and a natural marsh. First up, they call themselves the Creek Geeks. They're students from Mira Loma 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 days work for this crew.

Eco Company addresses environmental challenges of the Urban Jungle. Did you know that buildings account for 50% of the country’s energy consumption and CO2 emissions? We wanted to find out what eco-conscientious trends are leading the building design and construction industry. So we headed out to the new Brower Center in Berkley, CA, named after pioneering environmentalist and former Executive Director of the Sierra Club David Brower.