By Sam Nejame, Special to the Digest Early last month I travelled to San Francisco for a conference. Over the weekend I and some old college friends cycled through Marin. In rain and fog we spun up long steady climbs then bombed hairy twisting descents through the famed redwoods. When my borrowed bicycle needed a […]
Food vs Fuel, biofuels causing corn planting to skyrocket, low oil prices killing off renewable fuels, the subsidy myth, the emissions myth, the “people won’t buy the fuels” myth, and the RINsanity myth. Ahem, here’s the hard data. It’s Christmas Week, and somewhere around the world this Thursday night some skeptical 9-year old is going to […]
The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, jumped 1.08 percent to 51.55 as the sector enjoyed a Santa Claus rally. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) jumped 5.49 percent to $1.73, while Global Bioenergies (ALGEB.PA) shed 3.69 percent to $26.10. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) soared 29.23 percent to $0.84. Overall, […]
Here are the photo votes received for Novozymes in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.
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The Digest Bioeconomy Index, an index of publicly traded advanced bioeconomy stocks, jumped 1.21 percent to 51.00 as advanced bio gained. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) soared 14.19 percent to $0.73, while Solazyme (SZYM) topped that with a 15.10 percent gain to $2.82. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) shed 15.58 percent to $0.65. Overall, advances […]
$1 biodiesel tax credit extended through 2016, and much more. In Washington, lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate passed legislation for retroactive reinstatement of the $1 per gallon biodiesel mixture excise tax credit from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016. Despite efforts of the US biodiesel industry to reform it to more directly […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for the week in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy. LanzaTech (2 winners), Amyris (2 winners), REG (2 winners), Sweetwater Energy, Green Biologics and StoraEnso took home the winning bonus votes this week. Voting continues through January 15th, 2016 at 5pm ET. “There’s nothing like a photo […]
In California, Amyris appointed Margaret H. Georgiadis, President, Americas at Google, Inc., as a member of Amyris’s Board of Directors. Prior to her current role, Georgiadis held senior level positions at Groupon, Discover Financial Services, and McKinsey and Company. Georgiadis has extensive experience and capabilities in technology, marketing, consumer sales, and business strategy and development. She holds […]
In North Carolina, Blue Sphere announced the acquisition of four operating biogas facilities in Italy, a major milestone in the Company’s history. Blue Sphere has acquired 100% of the stock of Agricerere, S.R.L., Agrielektra, S.r.L., Agrisorse, S.r.L. and Gefa, S.r.L. Individually, each fully operational facility generates one megawatt of electricity per hour which is sold […]
