In Washington, D.C., five trailblazing projects aiming to prevent the devastating impacts of microplastic pollution have won $525,000 as part of Conservation X Lab’s (CXL) Microfiber Innovation Challenge, including Mango Materials which turns methane from waste carbon emissions into biopolyester fibers. The winners beat competition from 19 countries for their solutions to prevent shedding of […]
In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office is looking to fill multiple vacancies for physical scientists/general engineers who are interested in decarbonizing the U.S. economy to fight climate change through research, development, and demonstration of new bioenergy technologies. Current open positions include: Feedstock Technologies program is looking for a GS-13 Physical […]
In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro drove a biomethane-powered tractor at a ceremony launching the government’s incentive measures to increase the production and sustainable use of biomethane, according to AgenciaBrasil. The measures include investments under Brazil’s Special Regime of Incentives for Infrastructure Development and creating the National Program for the Reduction of Methane Emissions, also known […]
In Colorado, new patented technology from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory makes it possible to produce flocculants from biomass, providing an environmentally sustainable and cost-competitive alternative to chemicals currently made from petroleum. Mars Materials was granted an option for an exclusive license to use NREL’s renewable acrylonitrile technology in producing bio-based […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
In Italy, Argus reports that Italian integrated oil firm Eni has pushed back its target to double its hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) production capacity to 2mn t/yr by one year to 2025. After that, the company said capacity will grow at a much faster pace than previously expected. Speaking at Eni’s 2022-25 strategy day, chief […]
In Missouri, Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, a non-profit member-based organization launching a national scale ecosystem service market program for agriculture, and Benson Hill, Inc., a food tech company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants, completed the first year of a carbon credit pilot leveraging Benson Hill’s farm to ingredient business model. Over 2021, ESMC […]
In the United Kingdom, Devon Live reports a town has become the first in the country to get all its gas supply and nearly half their electricity from biogas – the anaerobic digestion of animal waste. South Molton’s AD facility uses crops and poultry waste to create enough renewable energy to provide gas to the […]
