that means we help plants make more plants.. >> wow! you planted this? >> all of us did. we even planted a rock. it didn't grow though. >> heh heh. butterflies live here, too? >> and bees and birds and spiders and slugs. >> it's a whole nature community. [tank's stomach growls] >> was that thunder? i think it's gonna rain. >> no. that was my stomach. your garden smells really, really good. i think i'd better go. >> hey, you, horn boy. hold up a minute. >> me? horn? what was that? >> tank, meet sammy the slug. >> uh, hello. >> hiya. you're a herbivore right? >> a hungry, hungry herbivore. >> well, that's great! this garden needs help. little herbivores like me can't eat enough, so everything's all overgrown. if gardens get too overgrown, nothing new can grow, so, uh, can you help? >> what? >> wait. you want tank to eat the garden? >> not all of it, but big herbivores are part of our nature community. a little snacking from the big guy will help the garden, not hurt it. >> you man i get to eat? >> yup! let me tell you where we ne

now this plant is the same as this plant except this is a dwarf variety.s is a dwarf burford holly and the same culture, look the same except has smaller leaves and this one makes a really nice hedge for them. what we like about these is they are very diverse like some of the other plants we're going to show you and they require a little bit less water than most plant do in the hot summers. this is another great bullet proof plant. this can be used all over the country as well because it will tolerate real cold temperatures as well as warm temperatures. what we like about this and the landscaping of this tree is that you can get a real nice contrast of color and texture in your landscape. this has a real colander growth and it'll grow up to about 15 feet tall. once this is established it tolerates a lot of diverse conditions and doesn't use as much water as most plants. this is probably one of the oldest house plants around it's called a mother in law's tongue or sansevieria. it's very easy to take care of. i had one of these in college. i don't think i ev

we made the initial investments in the plants and the pipes. but once we accomplished that, there was this great recognition that we had a series of issues associated with wet weather conditions. storm events where, all of a sudden, you're dealing with a lot of water. narrator: large amounts of rainwater can cause flooding. engineers developed two approaches to stormwater infrastructure to transport water away from the urban environment. one approach was to carry waste and stormwater through the same pipe. this combined system was less expensive than building two individual pipe networks. and stormwater was seen as a way to flush out the sewers. through the 19th century, the combined system was considered state-of-the-art throughout the world, and is still in use in many cities today. but cities constructed these systems before treatment was the standard. and even today's largest treatment plant doesn't have the capacity to treat the sudden volumes of water rushing through a combined system during rain. the plant is overloaded, and the excess r

and plant your $1,000 seed. when you plant it you'll name it your favor seed. favor is going to explode in your life. now, you may have called in the last several days and sown a seed at a lower level into this ministry. but you're listening to me right now and saying, god is stirring you giving you common faith to believe. call in and say, i'm going to go ahead and increase it. i'm going to plant the $1,000 seed. do not let this moment pass. holding on to this seed. you do not know when god is going to give dwlou kind of faith to believe for impossible things. i really believe with all of my heart over the next 90 days you'll see miracles take place. for many it will be a 24-hour miracle. for some, you'll be in 72 hours. but there's a turn-around quickly. quickly go to the phone. don't delay this. when you call, do not forget to ask, as our seed of appreciation for obeying god, and sowing into this great minimum stree the cd teaching ten promises of the covenant blessing. i was at a church preaching this message. my dear, dear friend who pastors an incredible

those are the street trees we want people to be planting. we do a lot of tree plantings. all of you must intuitively go, "of course it's good to plant trees," of course, i want to put a rain barrel on my house." but is there a measurable environmental impact? trees are going to take up a lot of stormwater over time and are kind of a long-term green investment. we've had more than 200 volunteers come out planting street trees. we need people to make active changes on their property. and to reduce the amount of flow that's going into the combined sewer lines, we're trying to install 4,000 rain barrels. narrator: homeowners can disconnect roof gutter downspouts from the sewer system and divert the stormwater into a rain barrel. schombert: the rain water then can be used to water lawns and gardens and infiltrate back in the ground slowly, rather than being piped to a creek where it disappears moments after the storm's over. it's being held within the watershed and it helps regenerate ground water and stream flows. hecht: that's what we're going to do this afternoon is think a

they revealed their assessment of higashidori plant. there were two faults running under the compound are active. the possibility of active faults under nuclear plants anticipate the accident in fukushima last year have prompted many japanese to question the use of atomic energy. the former government said it would aim to take all react ors off line within a couple of decades but now a new government is in power and promising a different approach. >> reporter: kaho izumitani is putting everything on the table when it comes to energy policy. they will explore possibilities including restarting nuclear reactors. >> translator: we need to decide our energy policy based on technical assessments. we will not start with the conclusion of halting nuclear power generation by the 2030s. >> reporter: the previous administration led by former prime minister yoshihko noda drafted an energy policy that stated the government would aim to shut down all nuclear plants by the 2030s. before last year's accident in fukushima, nuclear power accounted for 2

manufacturing base, and that's ford motor company with two plants. one manufactures the escape, the other is the kentucky truck plant. and then general electric appliances as well. so those are large employers. they invested over a billion dollars two years ago in the modernization of their plants as in ge's case reshoring business, two product lines from business, one from china. after being out of intensely u.s.-dedicated manufacturing for 10 or 15 years. and so they realize it's better to have the whole supply chain closerrer together, and particularly to have r&d closer together. bring back the products to america and now they're in the process of saying what did we lose in that 10 or 15-year period. as has been mentioned up here, a lot of the manufacturing work force is aging. one of the rock star positions in the manufacturing plant would be an industrial maintenance technician. these guys, and they're usually guys, they can fix anything, you know? whether it's a hammer or a

and plant your $1,000 seed. when you plant it you'll name it your favor seed. favor is going to explode in your life. now, you may have called in the last several days and sown a seed at a lower level into this ministry. but you're listening to me right now and saying god is stirring you giving you common faith to believe. call in and say, i'm going to go ahead and increase it. i'm going to plant the $1,000 seed. do not let this moment pass. holding on to this seed. you do not know when god is going to give dwlou kind of faith to believe for impossible things. i really believe with all of my heart over the next 90 days you'll see miracles take place. for many it will be a 24-hour miracle. for some you'll be in 72 hours. but there's a turn-around quickly. quickly go to the phone. don't delay this. when you call do not forget to ask, as our seed of appreciation for obeying god, and sowing into this great minimum stree the cd teaching ten promises of the covenant blessing. i was at a church preaching this message. my dear dear friend who pastors an incredible chur

it's a vine type plant. then start with a soil less mixture and fill in around the plant.o ahead and fill that all in there. >> i am making a huge mess and you are totally fine over there. >> the kids will like the mess. put down craft paper to help prevent the mess. i have decorative river stone here. i'm going to put these down around the planter and put some around yours. push the soil in there. and put the decorative stones there. if you've got a boy that's got marbles, you can pop marbles in there. whatever you want to as a decorative element in the base. base sure it's something that is going to be resistant to the water and there you have a really great dish garden. these are going to last for a long time. you can have the kids take care of them themselves and teach them about nurture. or it will be a great plant for them is gift to a teacher. it's a really fun project for a weekend like this. >> so here is the big question: if you gift it , do you allow that person to think you spend $100 or do you tell them you made it? >> i'm going to let you spin that. >> if you

the experts are examining fissures beneath three plants. it includes the only plant in the country that's running, the one at oui town along the strait of japan. it's also along the plant in central japan. they analyze nearby layers of rock. the analysts suggested the land may have moved sometime in the last 120,000 to 130,000 years. that would meet one of the conditions for being classified as active. the experts also examined the fault's direction. they say their report will indicate it could be an extension of another fault running directly beneath the reactor. they say their report will conclude the fault might be active. the operators of the plant say the assessments have little scientific basis. officials with the japan atomic power company will provide their input. then the experts will submit their report to the regulator. government guidelines prohibit building two nuclear facilities directly above active faults. japanese researchers say residents of fukushima prefecture were not exposed to levels of radiation that would damage the

plants approved for use in the u.s. contain that very gene keep in mind those are the same plants being fed to the animals that you and i get are aids milk and meat from nice but of course even after discovering all of the yes they didn't recall the genes six containing crops no instead they just released a retroactive risk assessment of the gene so to talk about this genetically mutating virus in the fight to get g.m.o. foods off of our grocery shelves or at least labeled i'm joined now by alexis baden mayer political director for the organic consumers association thank you so much for coming on thank you so talk about this jeanne what effect does it really have on the crops well it's very interesting i am not actually not surprised that they discovered this because they never really looked into it before right but it's really scary one of the properties of this viral gene is that it can break down the defenses of a plant and we're not so different from plants when it comes to how viruses attack us and some viruses tha

nuclear power plant in the czech republic also. created this specially for. our i will you call that a lie by the bulgarian people obviously a good percent of them have bought into that what does the government say how exactly is it going to help the economy. so. all opinion is. even in the situation or an economical crisis is still in bulgaria and in europe new build. new production of new investments approximately five billion in bed and during the crisis time it will create for getting people new jobs approximately ten thousand to fifty thousand. and this could. get economy to get built from the crisis do you think the government's move was an independent decision or was there any kind of pressure from the e.u. who of course has high concerns over nuclear energy after what we saw in japan in fukushima. before you but some commission of from some countries which are already. nuclear. pressure the government and this isn't a foreign government it's not. is not independent if the parliament does decide against building this plant what does that mean for the f

there's no room for error when a robot is sent into a nuclear plant. once it's exposed to radiation, it can't be retrieved for repairs. so engineers need to make sure the robot won't break down. his team made the machine more solid and outfitted it with more rugged treads. the robot navigated stairways, recorded video and measured radiation levels on the top floor for the first time. >> translator: we wanted to focus on a different area than the u.s. robots so we made lots of improvements before sending it into the plant. >> reporter: but there was still a part of the building the robot couldn't access. the basement. it's flooded with radioactive water, which is leaking. damaged areas urgently need to be identified. but the landing of the stair well that leads to the basement is too narrow for the robot to pass through. he and his team are working on a smaller version that's about 70% the size of the quints. the circuits used in the body are the smallest available. so he separated and stacked them to reduce the robot's size. this new design enables it

it's been through a treatment plant. and now it's in our lake and we're watering with it. narrator: these reuse and conservation techniques enable las vegas to exist in the desert. another important form of conservation is preventing leaks. man: every drop counts. all water systems have what they call an efficiency rating. so if you were to measure the water that goes into your system and compare it to the water that goes out, how much is unaccounted for? most states have a goal of 10%. ours is at only 5.5% right now. and we have plans to lower that to 4%. man: we actually have our entire distribution system mapped out in a computerized or electronic format. and we can locate our pipes, we can locate our valves, we can locate water meters that are out there. we've got small units installed in the distribution system. and they actually listen for leaks. we can schedule the repair, minimize its impacts to the surrounding community, and it minimizes cost, because obviously, if you've got a leak that's been leaking for sometime, you're going to see a lot of undermining of the

the 1,000 or so plant workers migrate as well with about a 95% retention rate. the same not true for field workers. thus the automated harvesters, making sure the lettuce is picked when and how it needs to be. >> we're looking for a nice upright tight hearted starting to close in head. >> mike: they are the lifeblood of the u.s. economy: small and medium-size businesses. and the fastest-growing segment are those small businesses owned and operated by women. let's meet some women now who are tipping their hat, both to history and to future growth. it has been going on at paul's hat works in san francisco's richmond district since 1918, the making of hats. lineage that runs from its peruvian founder over 94 years to four young women from the neighborhood. >> we were kind of an odd bunch before, didn't plan to be hatters, as most people probably don't, and stumbled on it, really did. stumbled on it. and the story and the ambience and that's what took us. >> mike: the story is a familiar one: in 2009, battered by the down economy, the owner needed to sell, no one wo

in fact, hey call their largest wastewater treatment plant a recycling center. >> this is the only planthe country that recycles or reuses all of the processed residuals that come out of this plant. >> reporter: scientist and senior analyst gregg eckhardt gave me a tour. >> we're recycling this water. we're recycling the solids and the gas, no other places doing that. we've got the solar farm out here. >> reporter: just for good measure. >> between all those things, there's no other place in texas that's any greener than this plant. >> reporter: eckhardt walked me through the water treatment process: clarifying, a scrubbing with bacteria and microorganisms fed by oxygen and then clarifying again. >> after this, we also do a filtration process. we can meet all the standards without that, but we do that just to polish the water, to give it that extra shine. >> reporter: "polish the water," that's what you call it? >> yeah, polish the water. >> reporter: 30% of that polished water goes into the san antonio river, the remaining 70% is captured and reused. the polished, yet non potable water,

that's because the gas was needed to fuel power plants. most nuclear plants in japan are offline for inspection following the mar 11 crisis at the fukushima daiichi. lng prices also stayed high throughout the year, due to stronger demand from emerging countries. another reason for the boost in imports has been a certain reversal in currency markets. the yen began weakening at the end of last year. the yen has continued to weaken and the new prime minister shinzo abe's bold economic policy. this corporation is one of japan's major trading companies. it imports lng from asia and the middle east. they expect imports of lng to be at least as high as last year, but the cost will be much higher as the value of the yen continues to drop. >> translator: we are really getting a triple punch in the shortage of lng supplies, the high price of the gas and the depreciation of the yen. as an energy importing company, we are concerned about what level the exchange rate will settle at because it has a big impact on our import costs. >> reporter: experts t

the tree shrew feeds by licking the secretions from the pitcher plant's lid and the pitcher plant gets its fertilizer by collecting the tree shrew's droppings. [ helicopter whirring ] wildlife cameramen are always trying to film some piece of animal behavior that no one has ever seen before and aerial photography enabled them to do just that. in the early days, we occasionally managed to get up in a small plane to get a shot of the landscape. but the plane vibrated so much that you couldn't use long lenses to get close-ups of animals, and if you went low, the roar of the engine frightened them. so we tried other forms of aerial transport. balloons were a little quieter but they took you where the wind blew them not where you wanted to go and getting steady shots was still difficult. it wasn't until the invention of a kind of mount that could hold the camera almost miraculously free of vibration that it was possible to use the long lenses necessary in order to film animals from a height when they didn't even know you were there. it's almost impossible to follow a wild dog hunt at ground