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...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Feb 16, 2024 | BioFab, Sustainability
Arguments against the viability of the cultivated meat industry, 2021 This is a personal archive of an article from the now defunct website The Counter, just in case the website is taken down, and I lose access to these arguments. This article is long and verbose. I...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Feb 16, 2024 | BioFab, Idea, Obsession Projects, Sustainability
Beef is a Pig Cows hog resources, pollute the air, water, soil and spread diseases as well as being tied to human illnesses. They are huge source of CO2 and methane. But, cows are about to get run over. Biotechnology is revolutionizing various industries, including...
by stevematthews@yahoo.com | Feb 12, 2024 | Architecture/Urban, Idea, Obsession Projects, Sustainability
I need a truck! But I live in a suburb and I don’t own a car, truck, van… what do I do? Neighbors don’t have trucks or they don’t want to loan them or I don’t know anyone with the truck. Home Depot rents trucks for short term but...
