by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Oct 23, 2024 | BioFab, blog, Climate Swan, Foody, Projects
Astronauts Want Cake So I was thinking, how do we make the astronaut’s birthday cake? Humans need protein, oils and carbs but nobody is bio fabricating carbs. Hundreds of companies are working on making biofab protein, because protein production is expensive and...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Aug 15, 2024 | blog, Idea, Inequity Swan, Opinion
PlutoFascism: The Last Stage of Capitalism After the end of World War II, civilization was reset again and America was culturally cohesive, capitalist but meritocratic. Work hard and you could get ahead and the playing field with somewhat level. But capitalism...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Aug 14, 2024 | Idea, Sustainability, Travel
The Lawn Haters Have Arrived For centuries, people have loved lawns. now, suddenly there is a fad of replacing lawns with native landscapes, xeriscapes, decomposed granite, etc. This is a good thing because I love native plants so I’m happy about people using...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Apr 16, 2024 | BioFab, Black Swan, Foody, Sustainability
At 12 years old, in the Mendocino Hills, I realized the cows were destroying the land, eating the native wildflowers, making the streams and ponds putrid. The hills were chewed to stubble, torn by eroded gullies. Streams once clear, were trampled by cows, filled with...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Apr 2, 2024 | BioFab, Black Swan, Foody, Idea, Sustainability
Saving Wildlife with Cultivated Meat When I was in Nambia, the California diet wasn’t available. It was meat. Meat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. “The gastronomy of Namibia is mostly based on meat, indeed, an almost infinite variety of meats. In Namibia, they...
