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An interview with Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, is presented. Asked her introduction to the outdoors, she cites the time she spent at a family ranch in Lake County in Oakland, California. Regarding Outdoor Afro, she describes how her interest in connecting African-Americans to the outdoor by using social media to develop the concept. She says that African-Americans have a historical fear of the outdoors.

An interview with John O'Hurley, a partner in Nevada-based green energy company Energy-Inc., is presented. O'Hurley explained that Energy-Inc. creates integrated systems that convert waste to synthetic gas to power generators that could supply electricity to hospitals and businesses, as well as refining methane gas from landfills into a liquid fuel that burns cleaner than gasoline. He also confirmed that Energy-Inc. plans to build a plant in Elkhart County, Indiana because of the availability of skilled labor and empty manufacturing plants in the area.