Soaring fish meal prices, a 9 billion human population on the way, and a world eating more protein per capita every day. A recipe for disaster? Along comes Calysta with a technology to turn abundant natural gas into food. And getting closer to industrialization. If, like the author, you happened to laze away the 1970s […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, slipped 1.16 percent to 48.50 as advanced bioequities tumbled again. For the day, The Andersons (ANDE) dropped 5.31 percent to $27.45, while Amyris (AMRS) dumped 9.15 percent to $1.29. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) shed 6.28 percent to $1.79. Overall, declines led advances […]
In Florida, the Digest has released the 30 Hottest Biobased Molecules for 2016, as voted by the Digest’s global readership. The Readers were surveyed over December and January, and rated more than 100 individual molecules “of little interest now”, “some interest now, maybe more later,” “a real opportunity, perhaps critical later” and “a major opportunity […]
“Gas under two bucks a gallon ain’t bad, either.” So let’s talk about the future, and four big questions that we as a country have to answer—regardless of who the next President is, or who controls the next Congress. First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new […]
The full text of the State of the Union address, as released by the White House just before the speech’s delivery. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I’m going […]
In Florida, early voting rankings were released today for 50 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, representing roughly 90% of the overall subscriber vote expected. Subscriber voting ends Friday, January 15 at 5pm ET. The Hot 50 rankings will be announced live at ABLC 2016 in Washington DC at 6pm on February 17, 2016. Below, we’ve […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for this week in the 2016 Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy competition. Amyris, REG (3 winners), Stora Enso, LanzaTech (4 winners) and Novozymes took home the winning bonus votes this week. Voting continues through January 15th, 2016 at 5pm ET. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company,” said Digest editor […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, slipped 0.45 percent to 49.07 as advanced bio equities tumbled. For the day, BioAmber (BIOA) shed 5.34 percent to $5.49, while Amyris (AMRS) lost 5.96 percent to $1.42. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) dumped 13.75 percent to $0.41. Overall, declines led advances by […]
Sometimes, the set-up of the transition from fossil fuels is as pretty and impractical as Dr. Doolittle’s Pushmi-Pullyu. The Digest investigates. As you may have noticed in the stories around the launch of the Great Green Fleet, it is a complex maze of relationships when it comes to a technology benefitting from mandates like the […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, dropped 1.04 percent to 49.29 as falling oil prices weighed on sector equities. For the day, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dumped 11.81 percent to $3.36, while Abengoa (ABGB) rallied 4.10 percent to $1.27. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) dumped 9.43 percent to $0.46. Overall, […]
