URINE: Not just for gardens anymore!

Someone call Crunchy chicken. Seems there is a new use for pee/urine:
From Inhabitat.com:
Assistant architecture professor Ginger Krieg Dosier recently unveiled a new breed of biologically “grown” bricks that are durable, sustainably manufactured, and easily produced from readily available materials. Called “Better Bricks,” the building material can be “grown” from sand, common bacteria, calcium chloride, and urea (yes, the stuff in your pee) instead of being baked, which consumes a ton of energy.

It seems that producing the 1.23 trillion bricks manufactured per year right now creates more pollution than all the airplanes in the world!
Better Bricks were conceived by Ginger Krieg Dosier, an assistant architecture professor, in a lab at the American University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, as a solution to the enormous environmental impact of producing all of the bricks the world needs each year.

Read more: Researcher Grows Durable "Bio Bricks" From Sand, Bacteria, and Urea Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World