Category: Top Stories

Carbon sequestering clothing, Ginkgo Bioworks scale-up rare ingredients, fruit leaf waste fabric, sugarcane shoes and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of September 2nd

September 1, 2021 | admin

Big name shoe and apparel companies like Nike, Pangaia and Old Navy are on a sustainability roll. News from Nike on their work with Newlight Technologies for wearables that actually sequester carbon, Pangaia’s addition of two new biobased fabrics to its collection made from pineapple and banana leaf waste and nettles, eucalyptus and seaweed, and […]

The Oil Industry’s Bright Green Energy Future

August 31, 2021 | Jim Lane

By Mike Newman, Director, Parhelion Underwriting Special to The Digest The Oil industry is under pressure on many fronts in the climate change era and faces an existential threat from alternative, renewable sources of energy – but the industry is also best-positioned to win the Prize in energy’s green future. It’s “code red for humanity” […]

One if by sea, two if by sky: the search for affordable CO2 capture technology

August 30, 2021 | Jim Lane

In a companion piece, “Where will we put all the CO2?” we looked at the potential storage solutions from geologic storage to limestone. Here’s the math. According to a chart from the US Department of Energy, we need to bring 10 billion gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s enough, by volume, to fill […]

Chicken and Cow Champions – Chevron, bp dive into poultry poop and dairy doodoo for RNG

August 29, 2021 | admin

A double doozy came in the news with Chevron expanding their JV partnership with Brightmark on their dairy biomethane renewable natural gas work together, and then bp and Clean Bay Renewables’ new 15-year agreement where bp will buy RNG processed from poultry litter and sell it as fuel for the U.S. transportation sector. In today’s […]

Lab-fermented chocolate, coffee cookie cups, Apeel Sciences raises $250M, LG Chem to build $2.2 bio-buildings and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of August 27th

August 26, 2021 | admin

Chocolate without the cocoa bean? We’ve covered beef without the cow, dairy without the cow, pork without the pig, lab-grown lamb and fish, bioprinted meat, even food made out of thin air. But now we’ve got a no-cocoa chocolate in an effort to address the climate, child labor and human rights concerns surrounding the cocoa […]

The Fuel Economy Rule: An EPA That Won’t See, Hear, or Speak to the Facts

August 25, 2021 | Jim Lane

By Doug Durante, Executive Director Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest The release of the highly anticipated revision of the Safe Affordable Fuel Efficient Vehicle (SAFE) proposed rule this month was, for the biofuels industry, yet another poke in the eye as the EPA totally ignored reality and continued their long history of […]

SUSTAINABLE HIGHWAYS: New technologies will help us Build Healthier Societies in 7 Ways

August 24, 2021 | Jim Lane

Wonder of an earlier age, the modern limited-access highway is a commonplace of our times that we almost never give a thought to it — it’s just there, seems eternal and never changes, like granite formations or the fortunes of the Seattle Mariners. Change is coming, and perhaps soon. Because the most important fact of […]

Blue Hydrogen for Transport in the US: The Transition to Green Hydrogen & the Conduit to Keeping Pace with the EU

August 23, 2021 | Jim Lane

By Salim Rahemtulla, President, PowerTap Hydrogen Fueling Corp. Special to The Digest As the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) indicates in its Hydrogen Program Plan it published in 2020, “Hydrogen, as a versatile energy carrier and chemical feedstock, offers advantages that unite all of our nation’s energy resources—renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuels—and enables innovations in […]

lululemon + Genomatica = Bio-Nylon

August 22, 2021 | admin

In a merry mix of Canadians and Californians, lululemon athletica inc. entered a multi-year collaboration with sustainable materials leader Genomatica to bring renewably-sourced, bio-based materials into lululemon’s products. This represents lululemon’s first-ever equity investment in a sustainable materials company and Genomatica’s largest partnership within the retail industry. In today’s Digest, how together the two companies […]

Competitive Edge: Advanced Biofuels USA

August 19, 2021 | Jim Lane

Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? In 2007, Bob Kozak and Joanne Ivancic visited offices on Capitol Hill on behalf of Atlantic Biomass Conversions, Kozak’s enzyme […]

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