Journalist Amanda Little talks with food innovator Uma Valeti at Aspen Ideas: Health. Valeti is growing meat from cell cultures.

“Climate change is becoming something we can taste,” says Amanda Little, author of The Fate of Food. Every decade going forward, she says, we’ll see a 2 to 6 percent decline in food production because of drought, heat, flooding, and more. On top of that, the world’s population is growing — so there are more mouths to feed and less food to go around. Former cardiologist Uma Valeti has an innovative solution: grow meat in a laboratory. His company Memphis Meats is using animal cells to produce meat. “We look for cells we think will yield high quality taste and texture,” he says. The company is growing meat, not the animal, so the climate impact is minimal — an important factor given how much methane traditional agriculture emits. Learn more about how Valeti is rethinking meat.

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Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide

With an impeachment inquiry underway in the House, it’s time to brush up on American history. In the Aspen Ideas to Go podcast, Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein offers a primer on how impeachment works, what makes an impeachable offense, and how many presidents have been impeached. His take is nonpartisan and historical. After hearing Sunstein, you’ll be in awe of our constitutional order and the power it gives We the People. Listen to the podcast episode.

“Art comes from that part of us that is without fear, prejudice, malice, or any of the other things that we create to separate ourselves one from the other.” — Jessye Norman, Aspen Ideas 2007

This week fans of Jessye Norman, a Grammy award-winning soprano, said goodbye to the legendary artist. Norman, who was an Artist-in-Residence of the Aspen Institute, was 74 years old. At the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival, she talked about the power of art in bringing us together.