college textbooks may feed the college textbooks may feed the brain, but they also take a but somewhere along the way, something went horribly wrong. george allen voted for trillions in debt while voting to raise his pay four times, then voted to keep special tax breaks for oil and gas companies and took over a half-million from them. worse, allen went to work for them. >>> the good news is today there are more ways for college students to spend less. liz crenshaw is here to explain. >> it used to be you bought new or maybe you bought used, but that was it. today you can rent books, you can download ebooks and there's a textbook monday to be saved. shopping for books. it's a hassle. books are expensive. >> it's really confusing, and i'm a little afraid about how much money i'll be spending. >> college textbooks aren't cheap. the average student spence close to $700 a year on textbooks, to save many are giving buying the boot. >> the big thing that's happened in the last two years is the rental program. that's the biggest trend. >> antoine is the director of howard university stores, how

a lot of the search engines will find the cheapest textbook retailers. >> resales an exchange of textbooks is easier than ever thanks to web sites like amazon and bookfinder. >> what better way to trade books or purchase books and to do so from people you know? use your social network. use the folks you know on twitter and facebook. >> search for the international versions of textbooks. the ones designed for different regions of the world often have the same content as the u.s. edition but can save you as much as 70%. >> good advice. meantime, a delaware bankruptcy judge will hold a hearing today on the sale of baltimore's argies steel mill. earlier, at the judge approved the purchase of the sparrows point mill. today's hearing will address concern of creditors asking for more time to remove their property from the site. r g s. steel is the nation's fourth largest steel manufacturer, but saw bankruptcy protection in may. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with ava marie. >> good afternoon. we're looking at pleasant temperatures right now. has not hit 80 degrees yet in catonsville.

a lot of those online textbook search engines will find the cheapest textbook retailers.the re-sale and exchange of previously used textbooks has become easier than ever thanks to specialized websites like amazon and bookfinder-dot-com. and students should tap into their own personal social networks too. what better way to trade books or purchase books than to do so by people yyu know? so you want to use your social etworks. use the folks you know on twitter, on facebook. gamm also recommends searching for the international editions of textbooks..these books designed for different regions of the world often have the same ccntent as the u-s edition, but can save you as much as 70 percent. for consumer watch, i'm karin caifa. technology in the classroom...can be damaging. damaging.the body part that's suffering from new advances n . schools. -3

editions but can save you, get this, international textbooks 70% less than the u.s.odel. >>> towson town center is trying to help kids with the back to school jitters. today they are going to be holding a back to school rally. >> from would-to a four this evening -- from one to four this evening on level one. college students can take advantage of the shopping incent knives there's going to be refreshments and they will have gift bags given to the first 300 students with a college id so something to keel in -- keep in mind and have fun as students are stressed going to college. >> got to alleviate the street but -- stress but the bills is another thing. if you don't pay the water bill, you, me, you, it gets shut off. >> that's how it works. not the case if you own a business in baltimore. we will tell you what is being done to get companies to may the millions they owe in delinquent water bills. >> did you say millions? >> millions. >> its about time. tropical storm isaac could be a huge disaster. it could impact more than the weather. what it could mean for your pri

textbooks can take a bite out of a college book bite app for android aims to take a bite out of costs. student can buy, represent and sell used textbooks on the go, scan books to find out how much they are worth. the amazon student app for iphone let's users do the same things and get amazon gift cards for books. view the thousands of e textbooks purchased through the website on a mobile device including iphone, ipad, android and kindel fire and add notes as they read. to give a dorm room the comforts, the design yore dorm web app, has design apps. students can drag and drop items from app on line store and fit them in to the floor plans, come pay shopping lists with roommates or divide purchases and odder items to have them -- order items to have them shipped directly to the dorm. >> whether you use an app or take care of your back to school shopping the old fashion way, consider picking up sumays for a student -- supplies for a student in need. we are working with you, to collect school supplies for students through august 24th. here are the supplies we are looking for, backpacks, p

don't forget lugging all of the expensive heavy textbooks around. >> you don't have textbooks. >> the biggest thing in your book bag is your computer. >> welcome to what could be the future of education located here in moorsville north carolina. stop here. moorsville is probably best known as the home of nascar raci racing not tore state of the art school. now the school district is gaining national attention over its conversion to 21st century technology. it's visionary superintendent is dr. mark edwin. >> all of the students 3rd through 12th have laptops and we are using digital content that allows us to personalize approach to learning and bring a level of data and information back to students that otherwise would be impossible. now how do you give everyone a lap top? laptops cost money. >> we have repurpose pussed or funding. we have 19 districts in funding we are considered a modestly funded school district. >> how much do you spend per purple? >> 7,400 per pupil per year. >> what's a cost of the a family? we charge a $50 what we call a user fee. we have had families who fwraut i

don't forget lugging all of the expensive heavy textbooks around. >> you don't have textbooks. >> thebook bag is your computer. >> welcome to what could be the future of education located here in moorsville north carolina. stop here. moorsville is probably best known as the home of nascar raci racing not tore state of the art school. now the school district is gaining national attention over its conversion to 21st century technology. it's visionary superintendent is dr. mark edwin. >> all of the students 3rd through 12th have laptops and we are using digital content that allows us to personalize approach to learning and bring a level of data and information back to students that otherwise would be impossible. now how do you give everyone a lap top? laptops cost money. >> we have repurpose pussed or funding. we have 19 districts in funding we are considered a modestly funded school district. >> how much do you spend per purple? >> 7,400 per pupil per year. >> what's a cost of the a family? we charge a $50 what we call a user fee. we have had families who fwraut in a big jar of coins wh

textbooks can take a huge bite out of a college student's budget.for apple and android aims to take a bite out of some of those costs. students can buy, rent and sell used textbooks on the go, and scan books to find out how much they're worth. the amazon student app for iphone lets users do maay of the same cardd for books they trade in. "coursesmart's" apps let users view any of the thousands of e- textbooks purchased through their website on a mobile device - including iihone, ipad, android and kindle fire they read. and to give a dorm room the comforts of back home, the "design your dorm" web app has floor plans for porms at dozens of colleges and universities. before they get to campus, students can drag and drop items from an online store and fit them in ttose floor plans, compare shopping lists with roommates or divide purchases, and order items to have items shipped directly to the dorm. i'm karin caifa, and you're now... clicked in. it's the end of an era. era.production of the jeep liberty is done.find out if a new one.. will take its place

the average student spends about $1200 on textbooks.gh the college bookstore maybe the most convenient option, it's not a student's only option. >> the books there are typically top dollar, so you want to check those online sites. a lot of the online search engines will find the cheapest retailers. >> reporter: it has become easier than ever thanks to web so thes like amazon and book finder.com. >> what better way to trade books or purchase books than to do so from people you know. you want to use your social network. >> reporter: they recommend searching for the international edition of textbooks. they often have the same content but can save you as much as 70%. in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>> isaac has finally become a hurricane. plus, we'll talk live to a reporter from our station in louisiana. >>> has been charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder and first degree assault. >> and here is the picture of the first glimpse of the teen, they say, opened fire in a perry hall high school cafeteria. >> sticks and stones ma

it is and all of the textbooks, but then a couple of years ago, a young hero anatomist in brazil called and send an e-mail around asking how many brain cells people thought we had come all this talk about science and where we got that number from an devotee of course wrote back 100 million also wrote back i have no idea where that number comes from it is just in all the books so she developed a new method of counting brain cells. it's actually not a trivial problem to count anything that is several billions and resemble the tens of billions, but she developed a new method that was very interesting. she recounted them and found that there were in fact only 80 billion. now, that is an order of magnitude. o.k. so what is in that big a difference. the larger difference might have been that we thought we had ten times as many so-called cells which are the packing cells in the brain, and in fact from the greek we thought we had ten times as many. a thousand billion and it turns out that we only have about 80 billion of those as well. what don't we know? >> that is a big question. as i point o

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the social studies alive textbook will be department in third grade textbooking. >> some parents pound to a passage of free health care in other countries. the superintendent says the textbook should be replaced, but it would be too expensive to do so immediately. >>> there is growing opposition that governor mcdonnell's plan to charge a toll on i-95. this plan would build tollbooths at several locations near the virginia/north carolina border. spots l le -- spotsylvania join others in opposition. >> it's a free ride, but governor bob mcdonnell's plans to add a toll are picking up speed. the cost $4 for cars, $12 for trucks. the roughly 40 million a year raise would be used to maintain and improve the heavily traveled road, but this week the spotsylvania's board of supervisor include ejoined seve jurisdictions opposing the plan. >> these roads have been built with gas taxes already. the people who drive on them have paid for them, and now we're asking them to pay again for transportation improvements elsewhere that will benefit others. >> several national trucking organizations have mo

my book is one of the more popular textbooks now and so i teach and so forth. so i've been on the of it shows and stuff so maybe i'm playing a little bit of a role. it's freemont always said that he stood on the shoulders of giants. as isaac newton said. i feel the same way. i benefited so much for all the great economists who have come before me. >> you said you teach. where are you currently teaching? >> i'm actually teaching at mercy college teaching a program at sing sing penitentiary, believe it or not, i was teaching at colombia university. , and teaching the best and the brightest. i'll tell you what, i teach in maximum security prison. they are all male. 25 students i teach economics and business that. i have an incredible thirst for knowledge. it's unbelievable how the men who have been committed serious crimes in the youth trying to turn their lives around. i have stiewmentds at sing sing who have read the entire textbook before coming to class. i couldn't say that -- some of my students at colombia. not all of them. so i'm teaching that. my wife teac

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a new semester means expensive textbooks. have some tips to save. >> the average college student spends about $1,200 and text books are in the last academic year. the bookstore may be the most convenient option, it is not their only option. >> the books there are typically top dollar. >> the resale an exchange of textbooks has become easier than ever thanks to websites like amazon. >> what better way to trade books then to do so from people you know. use the folks you know on twitter and facebook. >> search for the international designs of textbooks and can save as much as 70%. >> your guys got some deals. >> that helped out a lot. fasten your seat belt as you get ready for some bad holiday traffic. jane king has the bloomberg business report. good morning. >> good morning the energy market catching a bit of a break. gasoline futures are lower as a hurricane isaac makes landfall without any damage to oil refineries. the cotton crop may be damaged. we're waiting for an assessment on that. we did finish mixed yesterday. get rea

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which are, um, open up the textbook sections where the teacher can then open up the textbook and usee section that they're using in the textbook with this part of the book, and they can combine them, and it makes it more interesting for the student and also for the teacher. they call it sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating with close reading. each lesson plan will then stand on its own. it engages students in historical inquiry revolving around one question in the be primary source documents giving the teacher a chance to do something a little bit different and more interesting than just rote memorization which, to me, would have made it a lot more interesting to sit in the classroom. i don't know about the rest of you. my next book, "worlds apart: bosnian lessons for global security," was my be favorite book. i know it sounds kind of depressing, but it was really remarkably written, and it was by an amazing author. suwanee hunt was very much involved in bosnia, even today. she spent a lot of her time going to bosnia during the bosnian war while it was actually happening. the boo

average student is going to spend around 1200 dollars on textbooks in the coming academic year.experts say shopping through online sites can help you find a better deal and students they should tap into their personal social networks as well. another suggestion search for the international edition of textbooks that have the same content as the u.s. edition butcan save as much as 70%. big tip. >>> students at perry hall high school are finding ways to move forward following a shooting that happened in the cafeteria the first day of school. >> good morning maryland at 5 begins right now. >> you're watching the station that works for you now, good morning maryland. >> students a perry hall high are hoping the second day goes better than the first. the latest on the shooting and how the community is coming together. >> also the cool died-- school guidance counselor hailed a hero. students speak out about his quick action that is saved a lot of lives. >> we are keeping a close eye on the path of isaac. details in a live report from the big easy. how they are getting ready andit's goi

amazon just launched textbook rental. saving 70%. users can search the site and click rent for bookses available foreign tall. free shipping. the books come with a prepaid label for returns. what a great idea. >> this thing is awesome because, remember, you would sell your books back and you wouldn't get even a fraction of the cost. >> exactly. >> they cost up to $600 a semester. >> this is going to be big savings for a lot of parents and students. >> great idea. >>> let's check in with meteorologist tom kierein, looking outside. everything is calm and cool so far. will that low humidity stick around, tom? >> in fact, you can tell we've got low humidity just by looking at live view from our hd city camera on this monday morning. we've got excellent visibility. hardly any haze in the air. and you can see the washington monument. it's under a clear sky now. and temperature rsz cos are coo. all the areas in the green are the 60s. the dark green areas, the 50s. that includes much of west virginia, western maryland. closer to washington,

but tonight, we're going to round up money saving tips to help them along. >> college textbooks can hit a student's wallet hard. but college board says the average student spent about $1200 on them during the last academic year. financial experts say even though the college bookstore may be the most convenient option, it's not a student's only option. >> books there are typically top dollar. you want to check those online sites. a will lot of online search engines will find the cheapest retailers. >> the retail and exchange has become easier than ever thanks to specialized websites like amazon and bookfinder.com. students should tap into their own personal social networks, too. >> what better way to trade books or purchase books than to do so from people you know? you want to use your social network. use the folks you know on twitter and facebook. >> also, search for the international editions of textbooks. they are designed for different regions, but often have the same content as the u.s. edition and that will save you as much as 70%. students can also save bishoping on craigslist and

i think this is one of the reasons she's not in the textbook. her life doesn't intersect with the women in the way other -- they tended to know one another. who was her influence? her mother. her mother was her big influence and a stanch supporter. i think they had a generally warm relationship throughout most of the lives, although it could be tense. she had a good role model in her mom as well. she was founder of the colonial chapter and red cross in georgia, an author, did many things. that was her biggest influence, and then she was friends with baden-powell and agnus. she knew those women. indoor scouting is where she found friends, dear, dear friends in the chief lieutenants. uh-huh? nobody wants to ask about the deafness -- >> that's what i wanted to -- >> okay. >> how did her deafness work with her not being able to hear certain things she didn't want to hear and continuing on her vision? >> right. this is a story girl scouts know well. juliette low was unstoppable, completely on optimistic, but ao she could just not take no for an answe

in general, used textbooks are the better bet. rentals will city more in the beginning -- nearly 40% more. are your kids getting ready for school this morning? they want to know what is hot and what is not. the editor of seventeen magazine has some tips. >> the editor has fiscal year's hottest trends. she says the first do is polka dots -- they are back. so is a plaid. >> you want to bounce something short with a cozy sweater and a cute little jack and some fierce little booties. >> not just any skinny jeans. >> make sure there is something special, like a print or cool color. >> you can still look good. when your classroom feels more like antarctica, no need to sacrifice style to keep warm. get yourself a really cute cardigan. it looks more polished than a hoodie or 18 jacket. >> who dies, we did not forget about you. she says try slimmer jeans. >> letterman jackets, whether you play a sport or not, are really good. >> if you wear a uniform, you can still make a statement by changing shoelaces to something bright or printed. have

. >> in the year means a new class is and in textbooks.rding to the college for the average is didn't spend about $1,200 on textbooks. economists say students should do search engine checker to find low-cost retailers and utilize exchange sites in use social media to their advantage and exchange but some people they know on facebook and its odor. we are back in two minutes as the kron4 news continues. >> what redoing at the time when this happened? >> i was watching television show. >> did you hear him climbing on to the house? >> i did not hear him at all. then i noticed the police around the house. they ask me if they go in the backyard. then, they let the canine out. he was barking in that is when they discovered he was on the roof. >> you could hear them yelling >> i think he pulled out a gun i heard the police yell, put the gun down. as soon as they said the act, i thought i heard that in movies to many times and i still on the ground. >> he said an officer actually look through your window? >> he did not look for my window but he was

with computers i-pads and other smart deviceds taking the place of textbooks.... doctors say students are putting mooe strain on theer eyes.it's called "computer incluue blurred vision ... headaches... loss of focus, neck pain, and double vision. there are some ways to prevent it. "every twenty minutes, take a twenty second break, looking twenty feet away. don't forget to blink, people stare when they are looking at a computer aad blinking is really important to restore the ear film. also make sure your computer screen is four to five inches below eye level." llvel."moot importantly ....doctors say every child should get an eye exam at the start of the school year. a new study links marijuana use at a young age... to a deeline in intelligence in adulthood..and it appears to be irreversible. irreversibll.the conclusions come from a study out of duke university.the study also found people who started smoking pot as adults did not suffer any decline in intelligence. reseachers say... teenagers brains are not fully developed and are more susceptible to the adverse imp

, one of the leading textbooks in the field by eric candel and the colleagues, and the textbook weighed pounds, twice the weight of a human brain so that can't be right. i think that the students have gotten the idea by the end of the course that everything was known about neuroscience, and that's certainly not true, and that the way we kept track of what we know about neuroscience is we build up facts and stick them in books, and that's not true. we don't really know much about the brain yet at all. we adopt even know what we don't know about the brain in some ways. we are still finding marvelous things out about it that we never would have thought of. i thought i have to teach them ignorance in neuroscience so i devoted a couple lectures to that at the end of the course and thought, oh, let's go a whole course, see if it works with other sciences as well. that's what we do. the course meets once a week at the seminar course for two hours app evening, and i invite the faculty or scientists visiting through new york to come in and talk to the students for two hours about what they don't

amazon just launched textbook rental allowing students to save up to 70%. users can search the site and click rent depending on how many books you rent, you can qualify for free shipping, too. the shipment comes with a prepaid label in case you need to return the books. >>> governing what your kids eat could be the key to keeping them in shape, according to a new study. researchers say laws that restrict the sale of junk food and sweet tridrinks could play role in keeping kids' weight in check. they say children gain ls weight in fifth through eight grades if they live in states with strong laws as opposed to states that don't govern which snacks are available at school. >>> your children's snoring may be linked to behavioral problems. they found kids that snored loudly at least twice a week suffered from hyperactivity and inattention. researchers say breathing trouble and poor sleep qualify -- poor sleep quality appear to cause these problems. researchers surveyhrveyed mothe 249 children for the study. >>> 1:50 is the time right now. happy news for a holly

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the response had been textbook. crew arriving a minute after the first call for help. and some people inside of the church had to run to escape the flames. >> i go inside of the church. the flames so hot, already. toupt ceiling already. soy tried to even the fire. and. >> firefighters say the thick smoke billowing from the building created blackout conditions inside of the structure. the fire also triggered an automatic evacuation of the school. and there are 320 students taken out of class. >> this is in two minute autos investigators working with the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms to determine how it started. that is secondary to firefighters who are worried about frank ryan and knowing they can't all be with him. >> we're struggling. and we're going to -- important to know is that we're going carry out if we get another fire we're going to go to work. that is how we do things. >> there are firefighters ready to respond. their thoughts with frank ryan tonight. 20 are gathered and frank ryan is in serious but stable condition in san jose, abc 7 news. >> and t

before they purchase an assigned textbook, they'll investigate whether it's available for rent or purchase as an e book. to them, the twilight zone involves vampires, not rod suhr ling. they watch television everywhere, but on a television. they consider point and shoot cameras so outdated. like last year's class, when they say amazon, the last thing they mean is the river in south america. nbc news. >> so true. 11:52 is our time right now. coming up meteorologist tom kierein will be back with >>> some new artwork is on display on u street. ben's chili bowl is commemorating the favorite visitors with a larger than life prediction. an artist worked through this with the e-mail. now he's working on chuck brown the late godfather of go-g. you'll see that in a minute. he sketched it out. because of rain it's likely wednesday before he finishes it all. he's moving pretty fast with that. look at the stories we're going to follow for news 4 this afternoon. at 4:00 a mother's friptenning ordeal behind the wheel. what happened when her accelerator got stuck and the car hit speets of 120 miles per h

they say the possible new curriculum will require new textbooks anyway. they agreed to wait as well. the parents did upset of the board's decision because it was made when several board members were sympathetic to them. >>> if you know somebody from mississippi you might want to think twice before letting him or her make a call from your iphone. mississippi apparently the clumsiest state in the country when it comes to handling the smart phone. researchers gave mississippi the dubious distinction based on reports of broken and damaged iphones. south carolina, is clumsiest state when it comes to handling ipads. washington ranked fourth. this was a study done by a warranty company that looked at the number of claims they got to see where they got most of the claims. mississippi is it. >> handling too much stuff. you have your briefcase and ipad and iphone and you're trying to do too much? >> i literally -- >> hailing a cab. >> i want to take a picture with my phone, so i stop in a parking lot and went to turn out the window to take a picture, threw the phon

. >> she teaches domestic violence laws and wrote the textbook. boy, if there is anything that she is qualified to opine on, it is what domestic laws is. you may feel they did not need the help, but she is certainly qualified to offer that opinion. >> any objections from the commissioners to striking a 82- 87? >> i would keep 87 in. >> any other views? i can live with that. >> i agree. >> ok, so a 82-86 will be stricken. mr. kopp, i'm tired of carrying your relevance objection. that i apparently took more seriously than you did. >> well, you have heard my view. >> i will let you did this. >> i will focus on the paragraph you have already raised. >> no, just the ones you raised. >> ok, so 95? yeah. i think much of this was already stricken in the various declarations. i think the determination was already made this was not relevant. >> ms. kaiser? >> our experts have relied on here say, which was one of the bases, but i did not remember perfectly for striking this information last time. it is relevant for the same reasons that the florez testimony

we don't think that the way to grow up is to spend all of the time in textbooks. you have to interact and play games and get knocked about, socialize. learn about the world. that is what we are trying to do. parents want their children to do well in school, so whatever we do in school, the parents tend to add aren't a little bit more. >> the people back in the states do not know about the wonderful diversity of this culture. the religious groups, the ethnic groups, and how well everyone seems to get along. >> we were greeted like this. we are three-quarters chinese, we have malays, who are muslims, maybe 8%, 9% indians. all of the major religions in the world are present in singapore. muslims, buddhists, christians, hindus. we have to get along together, cheek by jowl. we are living close together, integrated, working together, serving the army together. it is the only way we can survive because if we fight one another, i think that our society would fracture and that would be permanent. >> the relationship between singapore and the u.s. is very important to both

. >> wow, jim, that is textbook bad wingmanship. >> definitely worth checking out. to see these videos, head over to rightthisminute.com and click on best of rtm. >>> if you're a nature photographer, getting close is what it's all about. this guy, graham dwayne, from earth touch web tv got super close to a humpback whale. and you know those things are enormous. so when you're up close, it's a whole different perspective on it. this is beautiful footage off the coast of south africa. graham was in the water when he saw this humpback and realized how close he was able to get. you can see graham there and you can see him approaching the whale. but the other beautiful part about this is what you can hear. check this out. >> it began standing on its head and pushing its tail upwards towards the surface. >> the humpback started putting on a really unique display with graham right in the water and he was able to get some really incredible shots of the huge tail fin. >> the whale was like, oh, you're taking pictures? let me stretch out and show you my good side. >> that's a

one of the best known facts is the map the you find in every high school textbook and most believe there is a map of sensitivity on your tongue and to taste sweet with the tip and bitter at the back and that is completely untrue. it is a mess translation of an anecdotal report from the early 1900 that was picked up by well-known psychology professor. one is called psychology the other is called boring. apparently it stood the test of time even though it is totally wrong. >> so many things to lead to two 1/2 of the test of time and we can launch space shuttles using newton floss of gravity. the most notably since einstein but the way we say it is the regime that newton proposals mermaid but what is changed is it has expanded so now newtons formulations work as long as you don't travel the speed of light. then you have to invoke relativity. slow good gps devices need to be adjusted or otherwise they would be 50 meters off. albert einstein has stood up but he had a couple of alleges that said he claimed to the now what has come back. he does not know that but it seems to be important it is

when you do not have a degree, you really do not have the textbooks, and the internet offers that. such scientific advances would be nearly impossible without it. a famous quote from newton is "i stood on the shoulders, and that is why i could see so well." he was standing on the shoulders of others to make more advances. >> i wonder what he is going to do for an encore. jacked -- jack andraka, 15 years old. that brings our show to a close, and you can find updates on our website. to find out more at any time, check out our facebook page. i am jane o'brien. for all of us at "bbc world news america," thank you for watching, and see you back here tomorrow. >> funding of this presentation was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, union bank, and shell. >> at shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energies. that's why we're supplying cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity. and it's also why, with our partner in brazil, shell is producing ethanol, a biofuel made from renewable sugar cane. >> a

there is no textbook definition of the sharing economy. we will then begin the panel discussion which will last for 45 minutes or an hour, however long you want it to last. before i dived in here, raise your hand if you are familiar with at least one of these books. i highly recommend all of them. the one on the end is coming out in may. "share or die" -- i do not recommend that for marketing, but for a cause, we're trying to push a boundary and break a trail for new companies to follow. that is our perspective about what is at stake on a planet of finite resources with a growing population and growing per capita consumption. it should be obvious that we should be talking about sharing. this is a gigantic hole in our public dialogue. this panel and the working group and hopefully the book can fix that. see how this works. we face disaster unless we simultaneously reduce resource consumption and raise two million people out of poverty. this is the challenge we have in the 21st century. the growth the economy we are moving out of hopefully c