In the US, Sunday, March 8 marked the fourth annual National Biobased Products Day, an event created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to amplify the efforts of innovators and the economic benefits of the US bioeconomy. According to the USDA’s BioPreferred program, National Biobased Products Day is “designed to raise awareness of biobased products—how […]
In the US, the Sustainable Technology Evaluation and Demonstration program, a Department of Defense program aimed at identifying more efficient equipment, together with the Marine Corps Shooting Team, has found a new biobased cleaner, lubricant and preservative. Reginald Mack, deputy director of the STED program, called it a “game changer,” because it requires fewer applications […]
In the US, lobbying from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has prompted the Department of Defense to cancel plans to fund research into cultivated meat for military consumption. The DoD put out a call in May for funding applications for sustainable food and materials technologies with military applications that reduced emissions via bioindustrial processes. The […]
