Lab-Grown Meat, The Future Is Soon

Flipping to the resources page of the New Harvest website, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and advance meat substitutes, you find twice as many popular articles on the subject of lab-grown meat as there are technical articles on it.  Test-tube meat, in vitro meat, cultured meat or whatever name you call it may [...]

July 20, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology  No Comments

Getting Both Your Mind and Car Running: Coffee Is The New Biofuel

The first diesel engine, invented by Rudolph Diesel in Germany, ran on pure peanut oil. Eventually crude oil was used because it was cheaper to produce and easier to work with. However, the concern for the environment and the extreme fluctuations in crude oil prices have brought biodiesels back on the scene. [...]

April 3, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Science & Technology  3 Comments

True Cost of Beef Flowchart

Reading Omnivore’s Dilemma, one realizes that something is missing. Something that could tie many of Pollan’s points into something greater…Something one could understand at a glance…What the book needs is pictures!  More specifically: flowcharts!  Pollan discusses the hidden costs of cheap beef creation via factory farming.  While the paragraphs he devotes to the topic [...]

February 26, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Health, Science & Technology  8 Comments

A White House Garden, Part II: Cuba Shows US The Way?

Although it wouldn’t be an efficient way to feed the first family and guests, a White House garden would remain a potent symbolic gesture of progressive, green action.  It would demonstrate the seriousness of our new president’s perspective on greenhouse gases and global warming.   A modern White House garden would invoke an image of [...]

February 3, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Politics  One Comment

A Garden On The White House Lawn, Definitely A Shovel-Ready Program

At a time when every carbon footprint is being measured and accounted for, the White House Administration need only look out the many windows of their mansion to see their own big contribution to global warming.  Encompassing about 18 acres, the White House grounds are manicured with more precision than the most posh country club [...]

February 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Politics  2 Comments

EPA Causes Stink Over Cow Stink, Farmers Opposed to Tax on Farm Animals

The cap-and-trade system may not be limited to the traditional grimy industries like the coal processors and car makers.  New discussions have surfaced about the possibility of targeting greenhouse gas emissions caused by our four-legged, mooing friends.  Yes, environmentalists have recognized for some time that cows are the predominant emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas [...]

December 14, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Politics  One Comment