." ♪ carol: we are here with the assistant managing editor of "bloomberg businessweek," jim ellis. m, you guys do a solutions issue. tell us about this issue. you have a lot of stories that tackle tough problems. what is the thinking that goes into this kind of issue? jim: often, we look back at things that have happened in the past couple weeks or sometimes throw things ahead to think about financial issues. but we wanted to take a step back now and say, there are a lot of things that people who are interested in business and management worry about, what are the big problems of life and how do you tackle those? julia: take us to india now, trying to do magical things with waste. jim: it's interesting because india, you normally think of as a place that has a true waste problem and it does. , less than a quarter of waste in india is actually even processed. most of it is dumped and often, it is in places where it can foul water, where people can get eat -- eaten by the livestock they used -- they use or eat. so it's a really big problem. so there's a city in southern india now and i

julia: we are back with assistant managing editor jim ellis. ng at pursuits and the game changer to talk about the most intimidating tree hugger you have ever seen. jim: it's an interesting quick profile of nichols as a welsh guy who has become very japanese and is a japanese citizen. he has lived there for millions of years and what he's tried to do is look for ways to protect japan's forests. when you think of japan, particular outside the series, -- the cities of tokyo, you think it's a beautiful wooded place. what he discovered is that as people age there, a lot of farmers move on, more people move to cities, they are not protecting the wildlands as much as they used to. he took it upon himself as a way to do that. he bought 50,000 square kilometers and he uses it as a way to have sustainable land use and use it as an example for others to follow in his footsteps and do that, which you wouldn't think you would need that in a country where six to 67% of lands are protected. carol: would have to go to a futures story. an example of, this is a

. ♪ carol: we are here with the assistant managing editor at bloomberg businessweek jim ellis. want to start at the business, because there is a fascinating story. we had the auto show underway in detroit. when we think of self driving, we think of the auto manufacturers, but you also have to think about the paint manufacturers. we think this technology is all about sensors and high-tech things and now some of the most ,ld-school companies around paint manufacturers are key to the new technology. it turns out that for all the sensors we are equipping newfangled cars with, autonomous vehicles need to be able to bounce off another oncoming vehicle or vehicles around and they judge the distance between them, they do -- crucial to make this work. problem is, there is a blind spot these cars -- these sensors can'tnd that his people read very well cars that are black or dark colored. carol: and there are a lot out there. james: that is it, the bouncing needed to determine distance between things doesn't happen with black. paint manufacturers are coming up with new ways to how to make

is still to come on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ julia: we are back with assistant managing editor jim ellisof the business section here. in the more must-read section, beauty may be skin deep, but that skin matters. jim: it matters quite a lot. it turns out that humans all have very similar epidermis, but beneath that, there are lots of differences. lots of ways that individual cells react differently depending on the race or nationality or locality of the person, and l'oreal, the french cosmetics company, is doing some very interesting work with that, looking at how it can tailor-make cosmetics for chinese skin, and to do that, it has gone to the lab and are making chinese skin, growing it there. carol: it's fascinating. and this is how they can play around with products, adapting existing products so they work well on chinese skin. jim: it turns out that when even if the products have the same name, they can have big differences for the chinese market or the u.s. market, or even the european market. for example, revita-lift in the u.s. market and europe, it goes through getting rid of wri

." ♪ a carol: we are here with the assistant managing editor at bloomberg businessweek, jim ellis.ss,