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Sherri Shepherd, co-host on "The View," spoke with Russ Mitchell on the YAI fundraising walk in Central Park raising awareness and money for children with special needs.

In the past two weeks, Google has made two staggeringly large renewable energy investments: a $168 million investment in the Ivanpah solar farm, and a $100 million investment in the world's largest wind farm . We had a chance to speak with the man behind these investments--Rick Needham, Google's Director of Green Business Operations and Strategy (pictured in stylish duds, center)--to find out why the search engine giant has seemingly all of a sudden become a major clean energy player. When Needham came to Google in 2008, the company had already made early-stage clean energy investments through Google.org (the company's philanthropic arm), but Needham spent most of his time figuring out how to make Google's own operations more energy efficient.

Is Google a search engine, an ad outfit, or a clean energy company? Every day it gets a little harder to answer that question