cooking. so we are taking our chalk talk into a culinary arts classroom. if you are in miss wilma stephenson s class in philadelphia, you will work. how many people heard of me? whatever you heard, 500 times worse. i don t care if you like it or not, just taste it. and don t say ooh and all that because that s very ghetto-minded. joining me now is wilma stephenson. thank you for being with us. you re the culinary arts teacher in philadelphia. listen, do you teach cooking to kids so it makes them better people, better cooks or they might have a future in cooking? what s the aim of that class? all three. everything that you just asked me, all three of those things, that s exactly what i do. and how is that working out? how are they responding to this? you had a lot of boys in that class too. quite a few, quite a few young men are in my class.
being with us. you are the culinary arts teacher at frankfurt high school. continue with that fantastic work you re doing. thank you. thank you. if your home energy bills are skyrocketing, listen up, you can do some simple things to cut your energy use and your energy costs. as a matter of fact, one guy took it to the point where he s actually producing more energy in his home than he s using. here s jim spellman. reporter: it s the holy grail of green living, a net zero house. net zero means that we re producing more energy in this house than we are using. reporter: that s jeff in the foothills of the rocky mountains. he s turned his home from a power user into a power producer. the houses that most of us live in and work in and learn and play in are about as efficient as hummers. they waste a lot of energy. reporter: so how did he convert his house from a hummer to a prius? you know, the first thing we did was get a caulk gun out and we just started caulking all air
this is history unfolding before our eyes, what do you make of it? it s profounding. it s amazing because we teach these children to have a voice and have an opinion and we strug physical we taught them enough and if they have a way of educating themselves continuously and and voicing their opinions and just by the small amount that started and now you see how it s just going across the nation, it s amazing to me for what our students are doing and what they are able to achieve. you re a culinary arts teacher from what i gather who was forced to make split-second decision when you had active shooter on campus, tell us all how did you make the decision to open up the door and save more people? well, because i teach culinary and we are suppose today keep our doors locked at all times to begin with, it just so happened we were doing a lab that day and my door was propped