Flexitarian Times is a YouTube channel that deserves a lot more views.
Another very well done and informative piece on the rapidly developing market for non-animal derived meat.
Below: Increased capital investment in cultured meats in 2020 is eye popping.
“Nothing in human history” as great a threat as climate denial that the Republican Party promotes “with Passion”.
Chris Tomlinson in the Houston Chronicle:
Future Houstonians will look back at this moment and say this is when we failed to learn the lessons from Hurricane Harvey and doomed them to deadly flooding.
Risk-averse public works engineers are rejecting innovative solutions in favor of the same old systems that have failed us over and over again. Politicians who over-promised relief to the most vulnerable communities are struggling to address billion-dollar miscalculations.
Squabbling industrialists and environmentalists, meanwhile, continue to delay the construction of the Ike Dike, which would protect thousands of lives and billions of dollars worth of investments.
As I and so many others feared, our community is forgetting the horror of Hurricane Harvey and failing to keep the promises we made ourselves about rebuilding a more resilient Texas.
For years now, I’ve tracked the work of Accelerate H2O, a water technology accelerator run by Richard Seline. Based in San Antonio, he’s worked with communities and start-ups across Texas to develop new ways of tackling weather-related challenges, from flooding to drought.
In Houston and Harris County, though, he’s hit one of those bureaucratic Catch-22’s that should infuriate everyone in the watershed. Private companies will not use new technology without government approval, and the government will not approve the technology unless the private sector uses it first.
We are not talking about two entrepreneurs in a garage here. These proposals include technology firms like Cisco and Microsoft, insurance companies like Aon, and nonprofits like the Insurance Information Institute and the Nature Conservancy.
