We are on the cusp of a transportation revolution. From the warehouse to the consumer's converting transportation needs, change is afoot. For years, this has been a labor-intensive area with tremendous capital investment. This is rapidly changing. I thought I would start out this month by relating my personal experience in one area of rapidly changing transportation--lawnmowing.

Hopefully, this month I have given you some serious matters to think about going forward when it comes to the earth's environment. For our children and others in the next generation (don't forget our pets and other flora and fauna) we will leave the Earth in the best shape we can. I am mostly worried about the next generation of humans.

The stumbling blocks when one is discussing environmental issues is that the impacts are at the macro level while the causes are often at the microscopic or submicroscopic levels. The probability and statistics applications to take those microscopic and submicroscopic findings to a solid cause and effect solution are not trivial, either.

Environmental Issues seem to have no sunset. The typical environmental scientist (at least I think from my own experience) became interested in the subject while in high school, pursued it in higher education, then obtained employment in a lab or regulatory agency, often government funded.

This is going to be a different kind of column series this month. We are not going to be discussing the science behind the environmental movement; we are going to discuss the emotions and human behavior drivers behind the environmental movement.