For 35 years, John Garlo of Monongalia County has run a framing business, primarily for modular homes, and he's still doing that, but he's changing his ways. Last year he started a business called EcoStructures. His goal is to build affordable modular homes that are completely off the grid, homes he says would sell for $100-$200K. Garlo is building his first EcoStructure.

Who says you never get anything from the government? If you're from West Virginia and you're in the ninth grade and you have an interest and aptitude in science--you may be able to spend a couple of weeks each summer at Green Bank. The program is called The Governor's School for Math and Science. Since 2005, more than 50 pre-high school students from each of the state's counties descend each summer upon the high tech intergalactic radio wave listening post in bucolic Pocahontas County.

Refurbishment and replacement of the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) azimuth track (the circular platform on which the dish rotates) provides a visual opportunity to profile this phenomenal machine built in rural Pocahontas County to study the universe. Green Bank business manager Mike Holstine provides the technical information and tour as West Virginia Public Broadcasting cameras and crew clamber to the top of the 420-foot radio telescope—probably the largest moveable land-based structure on earth. The giant dish lurks clandestinely in a peaceful mountain valley within "The Quiet Zone," where radio signals are illegal and the object of all this attention might be 10,000 light years away.

Scientists from around the world use the GBT to study virtually all types of astronomical objects, from planets and comets in our own solar system to quasars and galaxies billions of light-years away.

Some of this footage was recently featured on the PBS program "Wired Science."