We’ve had three Wednesdays in January so far this year, and none of us will ever forget them. On January 6th, a mob of insurrectionists attacked the citadel of Liberty, the United States Capitol. On January 13th, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Donald J. Trump for ‘incitement of insurrection’. On January 20th, […]
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD)’s Maritime Environmental and Technical Assistance (META) Program promotes the research, demonstration, and development of emerging technologies, practices, and processes that improve maritime industrial environmental sustainability with a focus on reduction in vessel and port air emissions. One way to do this is through biofuels and this illuminating […]
by Bruce Comer, Founder, Managing Partner and Frank Kim, Director, Ocean Park Advisors Special to The Digest COVID-19 further plagues the already challenged North American biofuels M&A market, while capital investments thrive. Biofuels merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in North America remained sluggish in 2020. For the second consecutive year, no large-scale, operating biofuels plant […]
Mark Brodziski, Deputy Administrator at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC 2020 about how the USDA’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service offers programs to support rural business growth across markets in the bioeconomy like biofuels, renewable chemicals and biobased products like the 9003 Program, Ag Innovation Agenda, and more.
Who are the key bioeconomy players in the new Biden Administration? What recent moves by the outgoing Trump Administration and Congress will set their budget and regulatory framework for 2021. What will the new Administration do, right away and this year? 1. New faces Here are the key bioeconomy players, as nominated and as-yet unconfirmed, […]
How do you recycle mixed and complex waste? What about waste that can’t be recycled? These are the questions that Mike Hart, CEO of Sierra Energy tackles in this illuminating slide guide that looks at waste generation by region, zero waste goals, FastOx gasification as the future of waste to energy, their facility in California, […]
By Shawn Kreloff, Founder & CEO of Bioenergy Devco Special to The Digest Facing rising shorelines and catastrophic wildfires, the reality of climate change has set in. Policymakers, business leaders, consumers, and businesses of all types have been pushing for a transition away from their reliance on fossil fuels – towards a carbon-negative power supply […]
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s A.J. Simon shared this illuminating slide guide at ABLC 2020 to look at the role that bioeconomy pathways play in drawing down CO2 from the atmosphere. From pathway selection, corn starch, switchgrass, forest residue, and a comparison of their net emissions pathways, this is one slide guide you won’t want to […]
On DigestConnect last week, Patrick Rose of the US Department of Defense and BIOMADE CEO Doug Friedman shared this illuminating slide guide to look into the Bioindustrial Manufacturing And Design Ecosystem (BioMADE), a Manufacturing USA Institute working to build a sustainable, domestic end-to-end bioindustrial manufacturing ecosystem. Here’s your chance to see what they had to […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? MBP Solutions was founded in 1999 in Scandinavia based on the idea of sustainability, legal compliance, transparency and optimal utilization […]
