Southern California's Pasadena Freeway Celebrates 73rd Birthday — But Can We Achieve Sustainable Transportation?
As The Writer’s Almanac notes, the Los Angeles area’s Pasadena Freeway was opened on this date in 1940, the first freeway — a high-speed, divided, and limited-access thoroughfare — in the western United States.
This was just a few years after a group of large corporate interests related to the automotive and transportation industries, including General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, and Mack Trucks, bought over 100 electric surface-traction systems in 45 cities here and several other large American cities, including Baltimore, Newark, Los Angeles, New York City, Oakland and San Diego and systematically dismantled then. Several of the companies involved were convicted in 1949 of conspiracy to monopolize interstate commerce.
This, of course, is water under the proverbial bridge. What matters now is how, if at all, we can progress in the direction of sustainable transportation.
For those who may be trying to understand the principles of thermodynamics as they apply to renewable energy – but who may not wish to take the subject too seriously, here is the British comedy duo of yesteryear, 
Every time you have a soda, what do you with the empty can? Do you toss it into the trash, or do you make a conscious effort to dispose it off into a bin that’s clearly marked “recycle”? Did you know that practically every ounce of metal that you dispose can be recycled and put to some use? Metal is found everywhere, from plumbing fixtures to vehicles to almost every device we use in our day-to-day lives. So all your old, broken-down appliances or your rundown car has enough metal that can be turned over to a scrap yard to help you make a few greenbacks in the process. 
Getting a message across in six seconds might sound a little like writing a haiku.
When some left-leaning sociology professor at NYU who looks like Jerry Garcia tells us that fracking is dangerous and climate change is a real threat, I’m sure some people discount those opinions. But what happens when they come from a retired Executive Vice President at Mobil? Here’s an 
Here’s a bit of pessimism on the prospect of 
Dr. John Grotzinger, a friend from high school, has become the spokesperson for NASA’s exploration of Mars. Here’s an article he wrote in a recent issue of 
Good news for householders: the Government’s Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) is being extended to residential properties. This means that green homeowners could be paid hundreds of pounds a year for generating heat by solar thermal panels, biomass boilers and heat pumps.
