ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability was profiled on NBC Nightly News last night. Thanks to Danp for sending this story in.

This is a entertaining look at two typical New Yorkers taken out of their element and off the grid for 30 days to see what happens. It’s a couple years old, but it’s a entertaining, educational, and funny look at how we’re affecting the planet and what some people are trying to do to fix it. Solar power, biodiesel, composting toilets, eco-footprints, veganism can the New Yorkers take it? Perhaps a happy medium will be found?

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I don’t know what the real story on this is, I assume they are designed to handle high wind. Probably some sort of malfunction. Makes for a spectacular video though.