It has been a long winter in the bioeconomy, companies and technologies laboring to convert promise into production, and unlock agricultural surplus to make sustainable energy and materials. Now the bioeconomy’s hour has arrived. Perhaps it was COVID, when biotechnology produced vaccines in record time. Perhaps it was the supply-chain crisis that come with […]
By Arianna Baldo, Programme Director, RSB and Tjaša Bole-Rentel, Bioenergy Programme Manager, WWF South Africa Special to The Digest Invasive alien plants (IAPs) are a scourge across Southern Africa – with species like black wattle and port jackson found across the region. It is estimated that more than 10% of South Africa’s land mass is […]
People in Finland are ranked as the happiest people in the world for the 5th year in a row according to the World Happiness Report, a publication of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network that draws on global survey data from people in about 150 countries. Maybe that’s because the national air carrier of Finland, […]
Q: Tell us about your organization. What do you do? The world desperately needs an alternative to fossil hydrocarbons. AlgEternal (www.algeternal.com) solves this problem by growing microalgae at scale faster, more reliably, cleaner and at a lower cost for use as alternative feedstock in multiple products and for carbon capture, water treatment, and soil rejuvenation. […]
We’ve reported on beef without the cows, pork without the pig, dairy without the cow and now we have honey without the bee from California start-up MeliBio which raised $7.5 million to scale and commercialize its precision fermentation and plant science and tech to manufacture honey. In today’s Digest, we also have Texas-based Dell exploring […]
As the industry exits ABLC and returns to the day-to-day of transforming the world’s industrial base to a sustainable future, news arrives from Colorado that Gevo signed $8.1 billion in deals yesterday. Yes, one day. The Delta deal: $2.8 billion Gevo signed a “take-or-pay” agreement with Delta Air Lines to supply 75 million gallons of […]
The din of 700 people dealmaking could not drown out the dialogue heard on the ABLC 2022 floor, which went something like this. Buyer: You sit here, friend. Colleague: All right. Buyer: (to Seller) Morning! Seller: Morning! Buyer: Well, what’ve you got? Seller: There’s meat without the cow, milk without the cow, renewable diesel, and […]
You heard Jennifer Holmgren as a keynote speaker last week at the ABLC in Washington, D.C., and we’ve covered LanzaTech’s going public news with their $2.2 billion SPAC merger, but just in is breaking news that they are collaborating in a new carbon capture and utilization project in Western Australia with ReCarbon and Woodside Energy. […]
On Day 2 of ABLC in Washington, DC, The Digest announced the 50 Hottest Projects in the Advanced Bioeconomy 2022. This year, the focus was on advanced bioeconomy manufacturing sites, completed or in development, at pilot, demonstration or commercial scale for intermediates or finished products, rather than companies. In today’s Digest, who was voted #1 Hot […]
ABLC 2022 kicked off with opening keynote speaker Hon. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, ABLC’s theme of “Dawn of Net Zero” and hundreds of delegates from organizations all over the world grappling with the immense opportunities and supply chain challenges posed by the world’s rapid turn towards charting a path toward a post-fossil society. […]
