{"id":12451,"date":"2011-06-06T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=12451"},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:31:00","slug":"bacteria-nitrogen-cellulose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/bacteria-nitrogen-cellulose\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria Made Your Lunch – Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Bacteria are one of the few reasons that I can remain optimistic about future prospects for feeding humanity. \u00a0We who are involved in feeding the world face many challenges in addition to population growth (climate change, peak oil, growing Asian middle classes..). \u00a0Still, we might just pull it off because we have microscopic friends that allow us to tap into almost limitless supplies of two key nutrients – nitrogen and cellulose. I wrote a post about this<\/a> when I first started blogging, but I want to revisit the topic.<\/p>\n