Three Fundred Million Dollar Man
Conceptual artist Mel Chin has made a career turning toxic landfills and abandoned buildings into things of beauty. Lately he’s been concerned with the poisonous levels of lead in the soil of New Orleans. Cleaning up a problem like this is a huge undertaking that requires an enormous amount of money; Eve Abrams looks at Chin’s creative scheme to make money.
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