On Yul’s journey he has been surprised to find that America is still making things and is still the leader in many of its fields of expertise. Americans are continuously innovating, Google, Intel, Facebook, some of the largest companies in the world all started in America. The fact is, we manufacture more now than we ever have in our history.

In this video we meet David Hackenberg, a commercial bee keeper. We discover how the humble honey bee is an essential part of the crop production process. Yul learns how David and his bess travel around the country pollinating crops and in this data visualization we can see David trucking his bees all over America.

From the grandstand of Daytona International Speedway, you might think oil and gas rule the racetrack, but NASCAR has made significant steps to address their energy consumption. NASCAR champion Greg Biffle makes a pit stop with Yul to talk about the racing association’s green initiatives.

Our economy depends on goods that are transported by rail, coast to coast. Our railroads are dominated by freight trains, rather than passenger trains, it is no surprise that freight companies own most of America’s rail tracks. Nearly all of America’s freight passes through one small section of Chicago’s freight yards. It’s Jack Strejc’s job to process all this freight. Yul meets up with Jack to

In this data visualization we can see how our food produce is exported all over the world and in turn; we import food from other countries’ own Food machines. This globalized food market allows us to eat what we want when we want.

A converted warehouse in Brooklyn may house manufacturing’s new frontier. MakerBot is a company producing desktop 3D printers at a relatively low price. The printers use plastic to “print” three-dimensional objects — anything from machine parts to toy planes. Enthusiasts say it’s reduced the cost of failure, encouraging innovation and democratizing production.

Yul meets Debra Griffith, air traffic control manager at the Air Traffic Control Command center in Northern Virginia. Debra talks Yul through the complex and concise system that keeps our planes in the air. She explains to Yul how factors such as the weather can seriously affect the day’s flight plan.

Yul talks to food writer and industry expert Scott Allmendinger to discuss how our eating habits have changed over the years. Eating out in restaurants thirty years ago was something we did on special occasions, now these ‘celebration foods’ have become part of our everyday food consumption. Joel Fierman, a wholesale food supplier in New York, explains how advertising and clever marketing is used

Kansas farmer Greg Stone’s corn production is under attack. Yul talks to Greg about the measures he has taken to stop pests from ravishing his crops. Yul also meets Robert Grace, a crop duster or ‘Ag-flyer’. Robert has seen a change over the years in the number of different types of chemicals he has to use.

Urban farming is a new phenomenon ‘cropping up’ in our cities. Yul meets Detroit, urban farmer Will Gardner and finds out how he has been growing his own produce to eat and sell at local farmer’s markets. Will is one of 16 000 urban farmers in detroit. Yul also speaks to Ashley Atkinson of Greening Of Detroit to find out more.

Since the 1950s, America’s air traffic has been controlled with radar technology. But with 700 million air passengers a year and climbing, a new system is in the works. Federal Aviation Administration head Randy Babbitt and Alaskan pilot Sam Wright discuss NextGen – the space-based GPS navigation system set to revolutionize the way we fly.

Follow the journey of crop sprayer Robert Grace in this data visualization. We attached a GPS unit to Robert’s plane and tracked him for two weeks as he sprayed crops in Kansas. This video gives a unique view of the work that Robert does and reveals why crop spraying is still necessary even though farmers grow genetically modified crops with built in toxins to kill pests.

From the grandstand of Daytona International Speedway, you might think oil and gas rule the racetrack, but NASCAR has made significant steps to address their energy consumption. NASCAR champion Greg Biffle makes a pit stop with Yul to talk about the racing association’s green initiatives.

Water doesn’t come cheap in California’s Central Valley. So luckily, farmer Zachary Sheely is handy with his iPhone. Sheely, the latest in a long line of American agricultural innovators, has developed an iPhone app to help manage the family farm. His program layers high-tech aerial imagery, soil info and irrigation blueprints to create a user-friendly management tool for the 21st century farmer.

Join host Yul Kwon on a cross-country adventure to discover how the American food machine keeps nearly 300 million Americans fed every day. 4/16/2012

Understand the intricacies, vulnerabilities and remarkable ingenuity required to keep up America’s modern electric power grid up and running. 4/25/2012

Re-evaluate your perceptions of the American manufacturing machine as host Yul Kwon introduces you to the men and women who are changing the system. 5/2/2012

Yul meets Roger Sammons, custom harvester, who takes his team and their machines all over America to harvest the nation’s crops. Rather than harvesting their own crops, thousands of American farmers rely on specialists like Roger and their state of the art equipment to bring in the yield.

Ted Sheely is a farmer in California’s central valley; he grows onions, wine grapes, pistachios and a key ingredient for pizza sauce, tomatoes – fifteen to sixteen acres of them in fact. 13 million tonnes of tomatoes are produced in California every year. A third of the tomatoes consumed by the entire world! California is the perfect place to grow fruit and vegetables, Ted Sheely explains why

A summer afternoon in 2003 saw the loss of nearly all transmission lines in New York, a total black out. Yul speaks to Rick Gonzales, Chief Operating Officer at NYISO (New York Independent System Operator) about what happened that day and looks at the technology they use to monitor the whole of New York’s power systems.

Every driver in L.A. experiences sixty-four hours of delay every year. Yul looks into Los Angeles’ transportation past to find out why its roads are so prone too gridlock. Yul gets a much clearer view of the city’s traffic problems from the air when he meets Commander Chuck Street, traffic reporter and helicopter pilot.

Commercial bee keeper David Hackenberg first alerted the world to Colony Collapse Disorder. A phenomenon that mysteriously wipes out whole hives of bees. Scientists are currently researching CCD and the jury is still out on what is causing it. David believes it may be environmental stresses, like pesticides affecting the bees. Yul chats to David to find out more.

At Mission Produce’s avocado processing facility, their average electricity bill ran about $50,000 a month. By redesigning their system to account for each and every kilowatt, they can now monitor energy consumption in real time. It’s all part of the smart grid system. Mission’s system manager enthusiastically explains how it works and why their monthly utility bill is only half of what it used to

Small producers still play a big role in America’s food system. Many consumers are interested in fresh, local products, like those provided by the clammers, or baymen, of Long Island’s South Shore. Every weekend, Alex Duschere motors his boat out on the hunt for hard clams. It’s labor-intensive work, using technology that hasn’t changed much since the days of the colonists.