i've come to the town of oberlin in ohio, where john and his team have come up with a quite brilliant way to raise awareness of their community's resource use. the environmental dashboard was really kind of built around the science and putting people and humans in connection with how they're using their natural resources. and so what this does is it gives a visual representation of the usage. and they put it into the schools and so it's really gotten a lot more into the community. and the teachers are utilising it in their lessons. i want you to pay close attention to the squirrel on the right side. and watch what happens. as it goes down, he gets sadder and sadder and starts to cry. teacher: why do you think the squirrel got happier or sadder? i noticed that too. well, probably because we're using a lot of electricity at that point. more than we regularly used. john: we did a controlled study where we have another school system very similar to oberlin's school systems in a different area of ohio. they've got the same curriculum as we do, but they don't have dashboard. we found as a r

to be educated in memphis, tennessee, which you can understand, so they sent her to ohio to go to oberlin college, and got a masters in germany. she is the highly educated woman. as she is leaving germany, by the way, three men in germany asked for her hand, one was a barren. may have been a pretty good deal. she was thinking, should i stay over here she could see people in germany were very anti- semitic and she didn't understand why. she had to decide, do i stay here? she is walking down the street in berlin, she walks, not thinking much about it, walking by the american embassy in berlin, she sees the flag snapping in the breeze, the red, white, and blue, she said, that is my flag. i am going to go back. she said, i guess i am patriotic , a revelation to her. >> talk about her achievements. >> mary church terrell , my gosh, she is one of those people, she keeps going and going. she met with every president in the united states, other than woodrow wilson, we won't go into that. by the way, interesting story in itself. she was a person who was steadily advocating for women's rights and r

again, that starts in the 1830s in places like antioch college and oberlin and ohio university. there matriculating black students very early on. and these big ten schools, we were just talking about that become big research there their desegregate did from the beginning and that's another great aspect to midwestern history that people don't talk about. there's some great stories the 20th century when university of minnesota and there's probably michigan angle on this, too. but i remember university, minnesota, university of iowa, they were asked to go to louisiana, play lsu. and, of course, the rule, if you went to louisiana was you can't bring any black players and. these big ten schools would object and they would say that there's no way we're doing that. we're bringing all our players and so this became a real friction, like the 1930s and forties when these midwest schools were playing southern schools. now, the question. yes, back row almost the row. i was watching you drive around. i often see buildings that i understand to be from the grange movement. and i was thinking,

again, that starts in the 1830s in places like antioch college and oberlin and ohio university. there matriculating black students very early on. and these big ten schools, we were just talking about that become big research there their desegregate did from the beginning and that's another great aspect to midwestern history that people don't talk about. there's some great stories the 20th century when university of minnesota and there's probably michigan angle on this, too. but i remember university, minnesota, university of iowa, they were asked to go to louisiana, play lsu. and, of course, the rule, if you went to louisiana was you can't bring any black players and. these big ten schools would object and they would say that there's no way we're doing that. we're bringing all our players and so this became a real friction, like the 1930s and forties when these midwest schools were playing southern schools. now, the question. yes, back row almost the row. i was watching you drive around. i often see buildings that i understand to be from the grange movement. and i was thinking,

she went to oberlin college, and then she went to germany and got a master's degree there. and so she's this highly educated woman. and as she's leaving germany and by the way, three men in germany asked for her hand. one was a baron. so i guess it was might have been a pretty good deal. and she she's thinking, should i just stay over here? she thought it was interesting because she could see people in germany were very anti-semitic and like she couldn't get it. like, why? you know, what's that about? why would you judge me on the basis of their religion? but when she told them about racism in the america in the united states are like, well, why i don't get that. surely the color of their skin isn't the thing. and she's like, no, it is. and so she had to decide, do i just stay here? and so she's walking down the street one day in berlin and she walks not thinking much about it. she walks past the american embassy in berlin, and she sees that flag snapping in the breeze. you know, the red, white and blue. and she just says, you know, that's my flag. you know, i'm not going t