Huell attends SolFest in Hopland at Solar Living Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting sustainable living through education. He discovers exciting products for individuals to practice a healthy lifestyle and use renewable energy.
Huell goes to Ojai to meet Joel and Rebecca Woolf whose company, VegPowered Systems, offers a conversion system that allows cars and trucks with diesel engines to run on used cooking oil discarded by local restaurants.
Huell goes to The Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar where he learns that cars with alternatives to internal combustion engines are nothing new. He rides in early 20th century automobiles driven by steam, electric motors, and hybrid drivetrains.
Huell joins members of Southern California Bluebird Club in Orange County as they place and monitor nest boxes in urban green space for bluebirds, and other cavity nesting birds, thus restoring habitat otherwise lost to human encroachment.
Huell goes to Inland Orange Conservancy in Redlands to learn how this organization is connecting local citrus farmers with the community who doesn't want to see the last remnants of the citrus industry bulldozed in the name of "progress".
Huell goes to two businesses in Arcata that use recycled material to create beautiful, functional art: Whit McLeod Furniture craftsmen turn wine barrels into furniture and Fire and Light artists turn old bottles into gifts and dinnerware.
Huell gets a private tour of a wind farm in Southern California's Coachella Valley. The Palm Springs Windmill Tour shows us the history, technology, and economic benefits of wind as a natural power source.
Huell goes to family-run Gills Onions, the state's largest onion processing plant and also the greenest. They convert over 150 tons of onion peel and juice waste daily to power fuel cells that provide power for lights and refrigeration.
Huell heads south of the Salton Sea to the small town of Heber for a stop at Ormat Technologies. He learns how they harness the area's hot geothermal water in the ground and use it to generate electricity in a clean and renewable way.
Huell goes on a "green" adventure to find out how all the old refrigerators that are thrown away each day are recycled. He follows an old fridge from a home all the way through the entire process.