![]() ![]() While lab-grown meat was busy trying to find its way out of the petri dish, plant-based meat substitutes were undergoing a revolution. Then an undergrad in neuroscience, she threw herself into a then-fringe area of research: growing and harvesting edible animal cells without killing any sentient creatures. One cool fall night in 2010, Jessica Krieger was horrified by a documentary that showed the gruesome ways animals are slaughtered for food. Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon-and it’ll be “blended” If you haven’t already, subscribe to make sure you don’t miss out on future stories-subscriptions start from just $80 a year. This story is from our forthcoming print issue, which is all about accessibility. ![]() Matthew Ponsford takes a look at three new titles, and what those of us without hectares of land to our names can do to help. A growing number of books propose practical projects to repair the natural environment, with the aim of leading us out from ecological anxiety toward hope for a wilder world. Not since the eco-utopian communes of the 1960s and ’70s has there been such an appetite for practical guides to engineer our surroundings to meet the needs of nature. One way we can restore some of its natural ecosystems is through rewilding: making more room for natural processes and allowing other species the freedom to shape their environments, with human management kept to a minimum. Repairing the damage humans have done to the planet is a colossal challenge. “Too Sequoia,” he said.What “rewilding” means-and what’s missing from this new movement I asked Ohanian, clad in a black T-shirt and shorts and blue Crocs, if there was a metaphor to glean from the literal seeds he was putting into the ground outside and the figurative ones he was tending through his startup investments. ![]() Next to them grew sugar-cane plants and coconut-palm saplings about a foot high. Across the way, banana trees hung heavy with yellow-green ripening fruit. Auntie Venus had been hitting balls here a few hours earlier she and Olympia play on the court more than Serena, who prefers to practice away from home. In The Farm’s yard was a small soccer pitch for Olympia-his and Williams’ five-year-old daughter-and a blue tennis court identical to the one at Arthur Ashe Stadium, where Williams dramatically concluded her U.S. “We have a lot of aunties in this family,” he explained as we strolled The Farm’s grounds last month. Ohanian and Williams like guests to stay here when they visit. Located a few miles away in Jupiter, Fla., The Farm is a several-acre plot with a smaller, equally modernist house shielded behind a shoulder-high wall. Meanwhile, Ohanian would work from The Farm. So they decided that she would operate from their 14,500-square-foot, ultramodern mansion that she gut-renovated with her sister Venus’ help. ![]() But the setup had begun to irritate both of them, in particular Williams. They’d been working under the same roof during the pandemic, Ohanian running his venture shop, Seven Seven Six, and Williams overseeing her growing empire of endorsements, entertainment deals and seed investments. A while back, Alexis Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder and venture capitalist, and his wife Serena Williams, the tennis legend and angel investor, reached a compromise. ![]()
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