That's why for the last five years, SFO has hired a herd from Goats R Us to clear brush in a remote corner of the airport.
and nearly 400 other goats spent two weeks in June cutting away a 20-foot firebreak on the west side of the airport.
Chicago's O'hare International airport (ORD) has requested bids for goats to clear brush in an out of the way area of a 7, 000-acre property.
Goats R Us has about 4, 000 active goats on their payroll. These employees can also be found working away on the side of California freeways, at state parks, under long-distance electric lines,
these goats are sold not for meat! Rather, they get to retire at the farm and visit schools and senior centers.
Goats R Us
Tomorrow's truck loses weight, but at what environmental cost? Ford'S f-150 pickup truck is the best-selling vehicle in the United states it has been for 32 years.
I really wanted goat's milk. And it will never ever, ever be able to properly order me a dozen ripe avocados,
A similar group hunted wild boar in Italy, scraped reindeer lichen off rocks in Lapland, made fruitless attempts to net ducks in Japan,
European settlers imported livestock, fruit trees and techniques like French pastry making, and adopted Native american crops such as corn and squash.
Adriã Â grilled an 80-lb amberjack fish steps away from where pitmaster Rodney Scott roasted a whole hog over a wood-burning pit.
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including public supply (water towers), domestic use (showers, faucets), irrigation, livestock, aquaculture, industrial use, mining, and thermoelectric power generation.
31 percent Livestock: less than 1 percent Aquaculture: 2 percent Industrial use: 4 percent Mining: 1 percent Thermoelectric power generation:
An additional requirement of the bee registration is compliance with the Livestock Disease Control Act 1994 and Regulations
Clothes made from cow's milkwhen milk goes bad, the standard protocol is simply to throw it out.
She will be selling her Couture from Cow's Milk designs for as little as $290. Related on Smartplanet Video:
The chemical could be contributing to spontaneous abortions and infertility in pigs, cattle, and other livestock,
while causing malformations in frog and chick embryos. Detectable concentrations of glyphosate have been found in the urine of farmers and their children in two states.
The Institute of Science in Society has called for a global ban, citing research showing the chemical has extreme toxicity,
A wild boar might be fitted with a collar later too. Via WSJ, CNN. Image by whisperwolf via Flickr
and Glen Bull of the  Curry School of education at the University of Virginia, recently answered my questions about the project.
Bull: Producing and creating customizable manipulatives like base 10 rods, fraction cubes, geometric Tangram shapes all potentially support elementary students'mathematic proficiency and understanding in ways that the teacher controls.
Bull: The decision regarding participation by corporate partners will depend on the commercial outcomes. The decision regarding participation by academic partners will depend on
Bull: While the technology is in emergent state and there are certainly a number of technical challenges,
Glen Bull
With technology, Chicago gets a grip on its greenhouse gas emissionsphiladelphia may be building the greenest city in the United states,
Aztec"cuisine breeds gourmet taste for rare bugs"MEXICO CITY oe  Ant larva, wild boar, fly eggs, wild greens:
a downtown hideaway for pre-Hispanic cuisine in Mexico city, Chef Fortino Rojas serves plates of escamoles (ant larva), chapulines (crickets) and jabalã Â (wild boar),
Meats that are considered pre-Hispanic include venison, duck, boar, armadillo or a squirrel-like rodent called tepezcuintle.
The Spanish introduced cows to Mexico, and who could imagine Mexican food without cheeses and creams?
The idea of dairy cow manure producing electricity or pig feces paving roads didn't disturb me much,
but a train chugging down the track on cow fat gave me some pause yesterday.
For the next year, Amtrak's Heartland Flyer passenger train will make the 206-mile trip between Fort worth
and Oklahoma city on tallow the rendered fat of cattle. Tallow is also an ingredient of some soaps and candles.
The cows came from Texas. The P32-8 engine did need not much modification to accept the biofuel
that could be a lot of cows. That would also be a lot less pollution. In the name of reducing emissions and fuel usage,
A complete pig carcass hangs behind the meat counter, illuminated by a blue LED light, revealing a series of numbers printed on the meat's surface.
Å These numbers show the date that the pig was slaughtered, and which shipment the pig is part of, Â Zhang Bo,
a worker for Beijing based company ZHD Laser said, pointing out the marks with an LED torch.
which use lasers to burn these codes onto the pigs after they are slaughtered, part of a food safety plan launched this week by the Beijing government.
and Beijing alone will consume nearly 30,000 pigs a day over the New Year period.
Last year, more than 4 million pounds of pork were recalled by the Chinese government after pigs in central China were found to have been injected with a fat-reducing drug called Clenbuterol.
One of the codes printed onto pig skin with a laser. In response, Beijing's Government has launched the ŠMeat Reassurance  project.
As well as the codes etched onto pigs bodies with lasers, customers at sixty-seven supermarkets across Beijing will receive a printed code each time they buy pork,
which are used to record the weight of pigs before and after they leave the slaughterhouse.
allowing farmers to keep better track of their assets--from crops to livestock to expenses.
which brings analytics to livestock management; and Mountain view, Calif.-based  Solum, which focuses on soil analysis. In essence,
poultry and seafood. They are manufactured by Be Green Packaging. Excellent Packaging & Supply is the distributor.
because the alternatives just don't hold up to real use behind the meat, poultry and fish counters.
helping those women buy a cow or learn a skill. Those are good things, but its not transformative into the community.
elephant poo is like the cow dung, which is worshipped by millions of Indians. Even his elderly mother has made peace with the poo.
produced by everything from household waste to charcoal burning to gassy livestock. The hope is that the World bank can play a central role in streamlining the application process for climate projects.
A subspecies of Pyrenean ibex was cloned momentarily back to life. Credit: Joseph Wolf (1898), via Wikimedia) But returning to the merits of Mulligan's proposal, remember that resurrecting dead
such as the Asian gaur in 2001, but often with limited success. In 2009 Spanish biologists cloned the calf of an extinct subspecies of Pyrenean ibex from tissue samples preserved for that purpose,
but minutes after its birth the calf died of lung abnormalities (which have been cloned common among animals to date).
Moreover, all those cloning efforts crucially relied on the use of egg cells or surrogate mothers from living species closely related to the ones being brought back.
There is more corn grown in the United states used for ethanol fuel production than for livestock feed.
It could also produce 25%of poultry and shell eggs, and 100%of honey. In addition, if Cleveland used 80%of every vacant lot and 9%of every occupied residential lot,
the city could generate between 31%and 68%of the needed fresh produce, 94%of poultry and shell eggs,
94%of its poultry and shell eggs and 100%of its honey. The study says:
the nation's largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, is in hot water today after the company chose to remove a standard safety feature--side-curtain airbags--from thousands of Chevrolet Impala fleet vehicles
The Star's investigation found that hundreds of Impalas already sold had been advertised incorrectly online as having the safety feature.
Enterprise says the cost-shaving maneuver saved the company $175 for each Impala, or about $11. 5 million total.
Enterprise determined that 745 Impalas were marked incorrectly and that it would send letters to all 745 buyers notifying them of the problem.
While the Impalas aren't the only vehicles in which Enterprise removed side airbags--about 5,
a crop that has fed long the cattle that the food industry turns into burgers and steaks that groups like White Castle and Wendy's sell.
Steve Foglesong, a cattle producer and the former chair of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;
as well as attempting to breed cattle that are resistant to foot and mouth disease and pigs that contain heart-healthy omega 3 fatty acids.
In the meantime, crucial research work in the United states is now going begging overseas. One of the most promising is a program in Van Eenennaam's department.
It is aimed at genetically altering goats so their milk contains high levels of an antimicrobial enzyme to help infants ward off stomach infections, a problem that plagues the developing world's children.
like a cow with fins. It carries two bits of foreign DNA: a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon and a genetic switch from an eellike fish, called an ocean pout,
It's like releasing a cow into nature--it does not know how to survive, much less procreate,
Itã¢â â¢s like selective breeding in cattle to increase milk production or produce more beef per pound.
Ten-foot plant eats sheep Links to more drinks on Smartplanet: At last, a cork that screws in an out of the wine bottle A shift among the world's biggest drinkers Getting crafty:
said Andy Cornish, former director of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Hong kong who is now an independent ecologist.
Cornish said. Security is a very real concern, as customs departments around the world have run into problems of theft.
Cornish says. People who trade in these kinds of things are very flexible in the methods they use,
The state of food in 2012 China mulls vegetables on Mars $282 million of turkey trashed during U s. Thanksgiving Your next refrigerator could be a magnet Fenugreen's Freshpaper lets produce keep for longer
you ll find yourself looking at a wild boar, Chan said. It is a drastic lifestyle change;
How wireless networks could keep cows from burping methanehere s a novel way to combat global warming:
Settle the stomachs of gassy cows. As it turns out, cow burps are a major contributor to global methane emissions,
a troubling fact considering the gas is even more potent than carbon dioxide. With 1. 2 billion methane-burping animals on the planet today, the digestive systems of livestock are worthy of examination.
CSIRO s Sustainable agriculture Flagship in Brisbane, Australia may have found an unlikely solution in wireless networks.
By dropping electronic devices into cows stomachs, researchers hope to monitor what it is that makes the animals so gassy
the plan is to pop them in the stomachs of whole paddocks of cows and connect them with an ad hoc wireless network.
and stops it from moving beyond the rumen-the chamber in a cow or sheep's stomach where much of the gas production occurs.
By measuring how much and when cattle produce methane scientists hope to alter the cows diets to produce Šlow methane  animals.
CSIRO is also researching exactly how diet and feeding affect methane burps, Fast Co. Exist reports,
but scientists still don t completely understand how the two are related. Image: Kevin Walsh/Flickr via Fast Co. Exist via New Scientist
Cows and chickens still have an important role to play in a healthy biosystem. Even so, conventional livestock uses 70 percent of the world's agricultural land.
Insects emit less greenhouse gases, can often be grown on organic waste, frequently prefer to be packed together,
crickets need six times less feed than cattle to produce the same amount of protein. With these facts in mind, the European union is investing some 4 million euros in a feasibility study of insects as protein in animal feed.
Hindus, who consider the cow sacred don t eat beef. Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean,
don t eat pork. Fish and chicken are safe bets. The New york times calculates Mcdonald s accounts for 3 percent of beef consumption in the United states,
which works out to 1. 37 million cows per year killed for Mcdonald s in the United states alone.
It is associated an organization with cow slaughter. If we make an announcement that they're slaughtering cows,
people won't eat there, Â he said. Å We are definitely going to fight it. Â India, often described as a country of contradictions,
But there is a cow-buffalo distinction. The exported meat is water buffalo. The killing of male and female cows or even milk-giving buffaloes is prohibited by federal law.
Srivastava, however, doesn t see how a Mcdonald s opening up near Vaishno Devi Šhumiliates  Hindus.
Å It s just a foreign company making its investments, Â he said. Gita Arora, a homemaker
sees the cow-based opposition to Mcdonalds as Å pseudo. Â Å If one is so angry about cows being slaughtered in the US then why have any Mcdonald places?
 she asked. ŠSo it s okay to eat at Mcdonald s in Delhi but not in Vaishno Devi  doesn t make sense to me.
 ŠI don t think most people who eat in Mcdonald s are even aware about killing cows in America or wherever,  continued Arora,
or as feed for livestock, there is no clear cut explanation for why the green fell out of favor.
Their cattle have open spaces to graze. We won't give up our jungle, she said. Everything will be destroyed.
Japan to grow human organs inside pigsâ Japanese researchers are seeking less conventional methods to ensure transplant waiting list patients can receive the organs they need--by growing them inside pigs.
Professor Nagashima has been conducting experiments on pigs. Female pigs have been injected with embryos containing genetic material from two different species,
in order for the piglets to grow into chimeric animals. The animals have been modified genetically to switch off natural genes with instructions to create particular organs.
Stem cells from other animals are introduced then to replace the missing instructions with organ growth from different pig species. For example
as a modified white pig grew, so did the animal's pancreas --which is genetically a black pig's. The ultimate objective of this research is to eventually develop a method for human organs to be grown inside pigs.
Not only this, but Professor Hiro Nakauchi from Tokyo University has taken things a step further. Nakauchi wants to be able to take skin cells from human adults
and change them into ips cells that can be injected into pig embryos. IPS cells are similar to embryonic stem cells,
and can grow in to any organ in an animal's body --and so it may be possibleâ to grow genetically identical organs for humans who need a transplant inside other animals.
As pigs and humans are related only distantly, growing human organs inside the pigs is a massive step beyond current experiments.
While the team are confident the transition from black pigs and white pigs to humans can be done,
it could take up to five years--or longer. In addition, critics of chimeric research could prevent such hybrids from being legal,
and the ethics of such experiments also comes in to play. Via: BBC Photo credit:
Kraft surpasses several sustainability goalsnext time you're wondering which brand of hot dogs to grab for the summer barbecue
Lamborghini SUV supercar may be a game-changerone good way of getting a better understanding of the kind of world we live in now is to take a look at the Lamborghini Urus, a SUV supercar concept vehicle unveiled yesterday at the Beijing Auto Show.
If the Urus goes into production, it will boast a 600 horsepower engine along with all-wheel-drive.
Volkswagon has stated that they plan to ensure that Urus debuts as the greenest luxury SUV (translation:
Urus will boast the lowest CO2 emissions. SUVS stand for freedom and emotion, says Stephan Winkelmann, the president of Automobili Lamborghini.
The Urus is a very concrete idea for the future of Lamborghini. Want more? Check back here tomorrow for a special preview of a car from the future.
Livestock: the eco-friendly, economically efficient alternative to lawn mowersgraveyard grazers also are used in England.
Sheep and goats. The livestock will graze on graveyard grass so that the town does not have to pay humans with high-tech equipment to do so.
It's both unorthodox and utterly traditional, as historically livestock were responsible for keeping the grass trimmed.
NPR reports that according to Charlotte town's Cemetery Commission Stephen Brooks, it will save them about $2000 a year
They rented the two sheep and two goats from a farmer in the area, and put them to work immediately.
sheep and goats can chew a higher percentage or a lower percentage of what needs to be chewed down in direct proportion to how fast the grass is growing,
And grant me one more generalization--most third world countries have plenty of goats. Where am I going with this?
Co. Exist reports that Texas A&m researchers have engineered goats that can produce a malaria vaccine in their milk.
If you produce these proteins in goats and other transgenic animals, it s way more efficient,
In another application of this technology, scientists at UC Davis have reared goats that produce milk with an antidiarrheal disease enzyme.
and economic needs than their moral squeamishness and put the goat milk cures into widespread use in the near future. via Co. Exist Photo:
Meet the Maverick: the only fully legal flying carthe last time a flying car had shot a at making an impact was in 1956,
the Maverick Sport is powered officially a parachute. The Sport Pilot license required to fly it is much easier to obtain than a standard pilot's license.
For the first certified Maverick's vanity plate, FLY CAR seemed an appropriate choice. As for the hardware, it's a lithe, 900lb vehicle reminiscent of a dune buggy.
The Maverick Sport should be available for purchase in time for Airventure 2011 a yearly air show held in July.
the Maverick Sport has a unusual creation story. The mastermind of the project, a missionary named Steve Saint, created the Maverick not to indulge some kind of sci-fi whim,
but to solve practical transportation problems in the developing world. From CNN: What we're doing here at
'The Maverick flying car is just one piece of the puzzle for I-Tec. We've been working on this particular project for six years,
and sees the Maverick's potential uses as extremely diverse, from security to recreation to search and rescue.
The negative team (animals should be on the menu) was made up of agriculture lecturer and pig farmer Fiona Chambers, animal scientist Bruce Mcgregor,
Referring to the recent report Livestock s long shadow he argued that animal (livestock) production is a bigger contributor to climate change than all of transport.
grass-fed cattle made the situation even worse for the environment. Per kilo of beef produced, cattle on grass produce at least 50%more methane than cattle fed grain
because they need more grass, he said, and it s the digestion by the ruminant digestive system that produces the methane.
Farmer Fiona Chambers Singer's argument was counteracted by organic pig farmer Fiona Chambers, who explained that the environment was equipped well to deal with this.
a dog is a pig is a bear is a boy. Meat today is the new asbestos, more murderous than tobacco,
A significant letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack points out that alfalfa is a major source of forage for dairy cows.
If organic dairy producers cannot get uncontaminated organic alfalfa to feed their cows, they will not be able to get their milk certified as organic.
agriculture, in the form of raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle. What's surprising is that many industries produce chemicals that actually cool the globe, according to the study.
Neon pigs raised to lower our healthcare billsscientists from Japan are seeking ways to make medicine cheaper,
and their latest experiment involves pigs that glow when placed under black lighting. Zhenfang Wu and Zicong Li of the South China Agricultural University, Guangdong, used a technique developed by reproductive scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's John A. Burns School of medicine to transfer plasmids carrying a fluorescent
protein from jellyfish DNA into the pig embryos. The plasmids are tiny DNA molecules, separate from chromosomal DNA,
The experiments resulted in ten transgenic piglets being born six of them since August, and under a black light they will glow green.
Glowing pigs might seem like an oddity rather than a valuable use of time, but the experiments herald the technique's success in future goals of introducing beneficial genes into animals
For example, anticoagulant ATRYN is produced in the milk of genetically modified goats and if current methods to create these types of animals can be improved,
In the press materials announcing the new bottle, Conrad Mackerron, the senior program director of San francisco-based environmental foundation As You Sow
Guan Haisen (pictured top), an appraiser who works at Beijing Antique City, imports the Ocean Optics LIBS system from the U s,
I've previously reported on efforts to produce goats that synthesize the human breast milk ingredients
 China has been afflicted by a string of food safety scandals in recent years, from lethal baby-milk powder to fake pig-trotters.
Last week, four sheep have taken up residence outside of the Paris Archives where they will spend the next few weeks trimming the grass.
The Ouessant sheep, a formerly endangered breed from Brittany, has been chosen for its small size and hardiness.
But Masson said that the sheep, for her, are a pretext to promote the Archives'activities.
she said on the day of the sheep's arrival from the Archives'lobby. Photographers coaxed the sheep to approach the camera as visiting children looked on at the odd sight.
Her original idea was to propose a community activity like a beehive project or even a donkey for children to ride.
Masson eventually received a photograph from the Ferme de Paris of four black sheep, and the ball began to roll.
The sheep will be a new highlight to the already active agenda at the Archives. Local school children who will come for educational programs will eventually name the anonymous sheep.
While largely promotional and tangential to the Archives'fundamental mission, Masson says that overall the center needs to educate.
Even the workers at the Archives, the animals'temporary caretakers, have completed a biodiversity training to educate them on the importance of the sheep.
she said of the ecological underpinnings of the sheep-cum-landscapers. While Masson hopes it draws people to the Archives,
Issues concerning safety, control and efficiency will be addressed as the Ferme de Paris observes the sheep over the next few months.
Livestock remains illegal, but the topic will be on the legislative table later this year.)Similarities also exist up north in Minneapolis,
So, for example, it would be possible to distinguish corn-fed cattle from Vermont from their cousins from Texas or Idaho.
Some of the codes will make it easier to own a commercial farm--with bee, crops, poultry,
and/or livestock--the site must be at least three acres--down from the previous five acres that were needed to run a farm in the city.
and that the city will crack down on people who have a horse or a pig as a pet.
Horses and pigs are considered not pets under the city code. Under the new rules, a person with under 3 acres must seek special permission to have either animal.
quail, turkey. We even have black bears. What your playing schedule when you â â¢re not on tour?
Livestock farming once thrived in Fukushima until most of its farmers were forced to evacuate after the meltdown,
and 5, 000 cattle were ordered slaughtered and the rest were left to starve to death.
Sensor swilling cattle can alleviate world hunger  Slip this Texas longhorn a sonar mickey, connect to big data,
Keep cattle healthy. Cows get so routinely sick that they undermine the planet's tenuous food supply
and cost the global economy an estimated $60 billion. Â U s. startup company Vital Herd has a solution:
Slip a sonar device down a bovine's gullet and it will sit in the gut, emitting precise information about the digestion that's churning away or not.
Rig up a wireless receiver in the cattle yard, and you can capture that intelligence, spotting early warning signs that the animal isn't feeling so well.
getting the most out of your cattle as you learn how, what and when to better feed them.
Forty per cent of dairy cows get ill each year. The cause can be early lactation, the type of feed they are receiving or one of a very large spectrum of health complications.
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