West of Moscow, I once stood in a sand trap that wasn’t a sand trap. It was 1990, in Nakhabino, where the Soviet Union was attempting something almost as improbable as perestroika itself: building a championship golf course. I had gone on a journey not permitted to journalists at the time, for a story that, […]
On Virginia Key, just across the water from The Digest’s home base on Key Biscayne, Flipper is getting flipped. The old Miami Seaquarium has finally closed its doors. The dolphins are gone, the crowds have departed, and a new owner is actively rethinking one of South Florida’s most iconic pieces of real estate, where the […]
Certified compostable plastics disintegrate at ninety-eight percent in field trials, proving material performance is not the primary failure point for biopolymers. Instead, collection route access creates a rigid ceiling for end-of-life recovery. Only eleven to twelve percent of American households currently possess municipal food-waste collection services, while eleven states lack full-scale composting facilities entirely. Furthermore, […]
By Sam A. Rushing, president Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd. www.CO2consultant.us Special to The Digest We have biofuels, manufacturing and fossil fuel based CO2 emissions to start……then add the ever worse (current and future) massive data center emissions making things significantly worse……plus a full rollback in Federal environmental policies; however, there are options for reducing such threats […]
Bowman Draw, Converse County, Wyoming. April 21, 2026. It is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, and blowing. Nobody at the Rocky Road well pad needs a thermometer to establish this. The coffee is doing the measuring. A few men stand around Pete Martin Drilling’s rig with paper cups wrapped in gloved hands, partly for […]
Feedstock competition in the bioeconomy represents a massive arithmetic failure rather than a market working. Because individual producers forecast demand independently against a shared physical resource base, the sum of their assumptions quietly exceeds the real supply. This invisible conflict never appears as a demand statement; instead, it surfaces late as price spikes, substitution, or […]
NEW DELHI — The sun has not quite made it through the morning haze when the flight to Pune begins its departure roll at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Beyond the cabin window, runway lights recede into the gray-orange dawn as aircraft queue along the taxiways, jet engines whine in continuous idle, baggage tractors dart beneath […]
Bioeconomy coalitions fail when they act as mere conveners rather than contractual counterparties. Most standard organizations lack exit, enforcement, and replacement mechanisms, creating severe defection-at-will risks where one member’s departure overburdens those remaining. Passing a rigorous four-part orchestration test requires a legal entity, delegated spending authority, clear allocation rules, and priced exit clauses. While popular […]
Public-private deployment coordination succeeds or fails based on the legal instrument supporting it. While statutes and regulated asset base licenses provide durable structures that survive political transitions, the bioeconomy relies on highly vulnerable discretionary grants. When political administrations change, these discretionary funding commitments are easily revoked, as seen in the sudden termination of billions in […]
NEW YORK FASHION WEEK — The Digest is reporting from just off the catwalk, close enough to see the lights reflected in the runway and hear the last murmurs from the crowd. Elsewhere, Marc Jacobs has been stirring it up, and Ralph Lauren is preparing another expression of rugged American luxury. But we’re here for […]
