Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?: The world has seen the first international conference on manufacturing meat. This is the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals. [NYT]
Newest energy source: cow patties: Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California’s most-alternative new energy. On a dairy farm near Fresno, manure is being turned into natural gas for use by PG&E in what the utility hopes will be a new way to power homes with renewable, if not entirely clean, energy. [LA Times]
Pollution is making flowers smell less: Pollution is diminishing the fragrance of flowers and accelerating the decline of bees, butterflies and other insects. Air pollution from power plants and cars is destroying the fragrance and thereby inhibiting the ability of pollinating insects to follow scent trails to their source, a new University of Virginia study indicates. [Telegraph]
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