By Christopher J. Guske, Ph.D. and Mark Warner, PE Special to The Digest There are storm clouds on the horizon and those of us actively entrenched in scale-up and manufacturing for Industrial Biotech see the coming apocalypse…and it will likely not be pretty. We make this assertion knowing we are in a superlative-saturated society, where […]
Renewable diesel has been off to quite a start this year. Just one week in February brought several big news stories in the renewable diesel world and that doesn’t even include all the renewable diesel excitement that came throughout March and so far in April. So business is booming? What is the overall demand and […]
You may recognize his name from Blue Marble Biomaterials, which converts organic biomass into renewable specialty chemicals, or as the former senior policy advisor to Washington State Governor Jay Inslee, but Kelly Ogilvie, DeepCell Industries’ CEO and Co-Founder has an interesting, and very personal, story to tell about DeepCell’s cannabis business and why he went […]
Why yes, that is Reese Witherspoon holding up an Amyris Biossance product. Amyris got Reese Witherspoon as the latest celebrity to promote their clean beauty products. Speaking of celebrities, there are rumors that the UK Queen’s consort is looking at a very green burial for Prince Phillip with biodegradable coffin made of wool and being […]
By Rafi Sela, Founder and CEO of AR Challenges Special to The Digest Foreword The world is struggling to act on the climate impact via various new standards and regulations. While the USA declined participation under the Trump administration, the new Biden one will continue to push the climate impact situation. One of the critical […]
Today, in part 3 of our series The Extraordinary remaking of Ordinary Things, let’s begin with the not well-known problem of the paper coffee cup, that it leaks and loses rigidity when hot, unless you put a coating on it, one made of polyethylene, and that coating makes it very, very difficult to break down […]
Did you know concrete is the most consumed substance in the world, other than water? No big deal in terms of environmental impact, after all concrete is pretty “natural” right? Not so fast. Portland cement is a core ingredient in traditional concrete and the cement industry accounts for about 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. […]
Sex sells but now it can even be more sustainable with a boudoir brand’s new biodegradable adult toy line that uses corn starch-based biopolymer biolene. Going to the other extreme of non-sexy, Canadian researchers converted fish guts, heads, bones and skin into a biodegradable replacement for polyurethane. In today’s Digest, a huge $700 million investment […]
By James Cogan, Industry Analyst at Ethanol Europe Special to The Digest Demand for energy in transport rose 7% overall during the five years to 2020. Oil maintains an overwhelming grip on the sector with a steady 94% share. The rest is biofuels with 5.6% and renewable electricity with 0.6%. Three quarters of the extra […]
From Illinois, news arrives that Shell has invested in LanzaJet, to scale the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel. Shell joins founding investors LanzaTech, Suncor Energy Inc., Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and in recent months British Airways joined as an investor and LJ has a n extensive collaboration in place also with All Nippon Airways. There […]
