Trump’s Nixonian Pivot
News of high-level appointments have been streaming out of Trump Tower all this week and last, and two trends are already clear: it’s a...
6 Hottie Trends to Watch In Bioeconomy Feedstocks
Fair to say that, hands-down, the most interesting bioconversion engines ever assembled were crowd-sourced, if you will, via evolution — and they reside inside...
COSIA NRG Carbon XPRIZE: tech innovators stalk a stealthy WMD
You may be familiar with the story-telling factoid couplets of the Harper’s Index, and here’s an interesting set in that magazine’s iconic style
Concentration of...
Winter is Not Coming: Pushing back the Frost Wall for more food, more fuel,...
Winter barley and early tomatoes may sound like a dull foundation upon which to further a revolution in agriculture — but then again, the...
The Scandal at USASpending.Gov: Part II: Genomatica responds
On Monday, we reported in Where is Your Money Going? The Mess at USASpending.Gov that according to the US government's transparency in government spending website, bioeconomy...
Here comes BioChina: Amyris, others bypass the 4 Myths of Business in the Middle...
From California arrives the very interesting news that Amyris has entered into an agreement with Blue California whereby its affiliates will provide access to...
The Zero-Emission Planet: IRENA says “affordable, achieveable”.
Eliminating Energy-Related Carbon Emissions Possible, New IRENA Study Finds
Since the election of Donald Trump as US President, we’ve heard a great deal less about...
What Does it Take? The experts report from Ottawa on Scaling up the Bioeconomy
This past week, a remarkable group of people gathered in Ottawa, perhaps described best as the “friends of Jeff” because the ostensible excuse for...
Fantastic 5: US States getting it done, making biobased happen
Any way you look at the US 2016 presidential elections or the turmoil within the European Union (e.g Brexit, or Italy’s referendum on membership),...
Enviral licenses Clariant’s sunliquid technology for commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol project in Slovakia
In Slovakia, Enviral has acquired a license to use Clariant’s sunliquid technology as part of its goal to realize a full scale commercial cellulosic...