Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Bloomberg Green executive reporter Zahra Hirji leads a dynamic dialogue on the latest developments in solar power across urban and rural communities. She is joined by Nancy Bechtol, who leads the greening of the Smithsonian’s twenty-one museums—many right here on the National Mall!—along with other experts and community leaders championing solar-power infrastructure.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live real-time captioning and American Sign Language Interpretation are available for this program.
Bloomberg Green executive reporter Zahra Hirji leads a dynamic dialogue on the latest developments in solar power across urban and rural communities. She is joined by Nancy Bechtol, who leads the greening of the Smithsonian’s twenty-one museums—many right here on the National Mall!—along with other experts and community leaders championing solar-power infrastructure.
ACCESSIBILITY: Live real-time captioning and American Sign Language Interpretation are available for this program.

![The Folklife Festival’s Pakistani Painted Truck Keeps on Truckin’
In May 2022, Loraine Goetsch acquired the Pakistani “jingle truck” created for the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Silk Road program by Haider Ali and Jamil Uddin. For most of the past twenty years, the truck has been exposed to the elements at a Smithsonian storage facility in Maryland. Thanks to Goetsch, the truck will have a new life in New Jersey.
Video produced by Yijo Shen
Music: “Bhawaiya” - Bengali Farmers’ Work Song by Mumtaz Ali Khan, Folk Music of Pakistan (Folkways Records, 1951)
[Catalog No. CFV11484; © Smithsonian Institution, 2022] The Folklife Festival’s Pakistani Painted Truck Keeps on Truckin’](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mPXpesg1c_U/mqdefault.jpg)








