Category: Top Stories

ABLC 2021, in a year about policy — From Pioneer to Player, Field to Fork, Plant to Pump, and Trash to Cash

ABLC 2021, in a year about policy — From Pioneer to Player, Field to Fork, Plant to Pump, and Trash to Cash

October 22, 2020 |

In Florida, The Daily Digest announced that ABLC 2021 will be held March 17-19, 2021. We’ll be safely live in Washington DC and will have a virtual program for those who cannot join us for the main stage events. At ABLC 2021 we’ll be focused on three interlocked strands: emerging technologies and the feedstocks they work with, the vibrant stream of commercial-scale […]

Read More

Cyanobacteria biofilm that produces ethylene, cool car, kicks, and shades all biobased, cell-based meat brisket, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 22nd

Cyanobacteria biofilm that produces ethylene, cool car, kicks, and shades all biobased, cell-based meat brisket, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 22nd

October 21, 2020 |

Madonna’s lyrics “Cause we are living in a material world, And I am a material girl” come to mind when looking at the hottest innovations of the week. From a biobased car made with coconut fiber, horsehair, and flax, to cool kicks made from sugarcane and algae, we live in a material world that is […]

Read More

The Need for State and Local Initiative

The Need for State and Local Initiative

October 20, 2020 |

American citizens are rich. They own governments that are “of the people, by the people and for the people”. Through them as trustee, citizens own land, water, and air as well as public infrastructure such as transportation, water and energy management assets and land parcels with improvements. Arguably, they even have an earned interest in […]

Read More

What Ag Needs: Accelerating Technology to Secure The Future

What Ag Needs: Accelerating Technology to Secure The Future

October 19, 2020 |

By Jim Collins, CEO, Corteva Agriscience Special to The Digest Adapted with permission from two of Jim’s most recent articles, here and here. Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in an engaging and thought-provoking discussion at the World Food Prize, titled “Investment Innovations for Food System Transformations.” One of the questions posed to the […]

Read More

U.S. Department of Energy announces $27M in plastics R&D, LanzaTech, Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Stora Enso, ADM, AltAir included

U.S. Department of Energy announces $27M in plastics R&D, LanzaTech, Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Stora Enso, ADM, AltAir included

October 18, 2020 |

What does plastic have to do with the bioeconomy? Well, everything. It’s about taking plastic waste, breaking it down into building blocks and converting it into a valuable treasure and it’s about creating biobased plastics. News from the U.S. Department of Energy on their $27 million in funding for plastics recycling and new biobased plastics […]

Read More

Biobased COVID-19 tests, masks, fun with fungus, crustacean shells to bioplastic, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 16th

Biobased COVID-19 tests, masks, fun with fungus, crustacean shells to bioplastic, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of October 16th

October 15, 2020 |

COVID-19 has seen an explosion in disposable items, but now innovators in India came up with a paper based COVID-19 test (that happens to be at much lower cost and gets results in under 30 minutes), and COVID-19 masks from pine needles to simultaneously help the populous nation address its plastics waste challenge and prevent […]

Read More

Trump narrows Biden’s lead in swing rural states, but still trails as election looms: poll

Trump narrows Biden’s lead in swing rural states, but still trails as election looms: poll

October 14, 2020 |

In a new poll released by Focus on Rural America  President Trump narrowed his deficit from 11 points to 5, trailing challenger Joe Biden 50-45 percent across the states of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The President trailed Biden 52-41 in a similar poll conducted in early August. The poll was conducted for FORA by RG Strategies, […]

Read More

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Licella, Canfor form Arbios Biotech JV to accelerate adoption of ultra low-carbon fuels technology

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Licella, Canfor form Arbios Biotech JV to accelerate adoption of ultra low-carbon fuels technology

October 13, 2020 |

In Australia and Canada, Licella has entered into a new joint venture with Canadian Forest Products Ltd, usually known as Canfor — the JV is called Arbios Biotech. Arbios will be principally focused on the advanced biofuel sector in the short-to-medium term, reflecting its positive environmental footprint as well as the current market stimulus for […]

Read More

New feedstock options and trends boost biodiesel production

New feedstock options and trends boost biodiesel production

October 13, 2020 |

By Brian Levine, Executive Vice President, Greasezilla Special to The Digest In the United States, efforts to replace fossil fuels with biofuels are gaining momentum, supported by growing public awareness, government programs and emerging waste-to-fuel technologies. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) analysis of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) projected that several types of biofuels, such […]

Read More

On the Move –Avantium Board members, Pluton Biosciences researchers, Cellink Bioprinting Business Area Manager, DEMETA’s NexTene CTO, a Finnair SVP

On the Move –Avantium Board members, Pluton Biosciences researchers, Cellink Bioprinting Business Area Manager, DEMETA’s NexTene CTO, a Finnair SVP

October 12, 2020 |

This week we have Cynthia Arnold and Trudy Schoolenberg appointed as members of Avantium’s Supervisory Board, Pluton Biosciences gets two new research associates, Dr. Anthony Thevenon joins as Chief Technology Officer for DEMETA’s low carbon resins, a CELLINK Board Member switches to Bioprinting Business Area Manager, and Päivyt Tallqvist is to succeed Arja Suominen as […]

Read More

}