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Covid Pandemic Economic Recovery Initiative

Covid Pandemic Economic Recovery Initiative

June 29, 2020 |

By Russ Freeman, PE Retired Special to The Digest Governments at all levels will face a double-edged economic recovery dilemma driven by business closures and job losses: (1) loss of income, sales and property taxes; and (2) a significant increase in demand for services such as food, shelter, and healthcare. One possible answer lies in […]

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CSI’s 2040 Blueprint for Pacific Northwest: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Clean Materials from Waste

CSI’s 2040 Blueprint for Pacific Northwest: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Clean Materials from Waste

June 29, 2020 |

This slide guide offers a vision and roadmap — a ‘blueprint’ — for the Pacific Northwest to transform its increasingly outdated solid waste management system by 2040, at a time when waste leaders are grappling with the most profound set of challenges they have faced in 40 years. The 2040 Blueprint for Clean Materials offers 5 […]

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Digging into Dung and Anaerobic Digestion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas and RNG from Manure

Digging into Dung and Anaerobic Digestion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Biogas and RNG from Manure

June 28, 2020 |

On last week’s DigestConnect webinar, Christopher Bush, Founder of Canada-based Catalyst Agri-Innovations Society shared this fun and informative slide guide complete with poop pictures and more importantly, the reason why cow manure and farm waste makes a fantastic renewable biogas and renewable natural gas. From the feedstock advantages of manure to the economic side and ROI, dig into […]

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Nutrition, Health, Sustainable Living: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM’s Covid-19 Response and Q1 2020

Nutrition, Health, Sustainable Living: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to DSM’s Covid-19 Response and Q1 2020

June 24, 2020 |

DSM’s annual meeting was virtual like many others this year due to Covid-19, but DSM is  optimistic about the future of 2020, reporting a solid Q1 for 2020 and early actions on Covid-19 that ensured continuity of operations and supply to customers. DSM’s co-CEOs Geraldine Matchett & Dimitri de Vreeze shared in this illuminating presentation how 2019 […]

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ABLC Digital line-up, DigestConnect community launch, BioChannel.TV expansion announced

ABLC Digital line-up, DigestConnect community launch, BioChannel.TV expansion announced

June 24, 2020 |

In Florida, the Digest unveiled its new DIGESTCONNECT Digital Community, and complete plans for ABLC Digital, which takes place July 7-10, 2020. More than 100 speakers, 1600 slides, 500+ participants already registered.  The Digest also unveiled its expanded BioChannel.TV ASIA and BioChannel.TV EUROPE services that will stream more than 20 hours of ABLC Digital content […]

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Network Like Crazy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ABLC Digital

Network Like Crazy: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to ABLC Digital

June 24, 2020 |

In Florida, the Digest unveiled its new DIGESTCONNECT Digital Community, and complete plans for ABLC Digital, which takes place July 7-10, 2020. The Digest also unveiled its expanded BioChannel.TV ASIA and BioChannel.TV EUROPE services that will stream more than 20 hours of ABLC Digital content in business hours all over the world. How will the bioeconomy […]

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Energy Transition in Times of Coronavirus: A Challenge and an Opportunity

Energy Transition in Times of Coronavirus: A Challenge and an Opportunity

June 23, 2020 |

By Pierroberto Folgiero, CEO of NextChem Special to The Digest It is clear to everyone today that the coronavirus outbreak will produce a relevant crisis at a global level, triggering a serious economic slowdown and it seems likely that the economic downturn will have as an immediate effect a drop in carbon dioxide emissions. In […]

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EU ClassifiesTiO2 as Carcinogen: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Titanium Dioxide

EU ClassifiesTiO2 as Carcinogen: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Titanium Dioxide

June 23, 2020 |

While COVID-19 was just starting to get on the mind of many earlier this year, the European Union published its final decision to classify titanium dioxide as a category 2 carginogen. But titanium dioxide is in so many things – sunscreen, cosmetics, even in self-clean fabric on metro trains – pretty handy during Covid-19 times. So […]

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Embracing Alcohol-based Fuels as the Key to Decarbonizing Long-Haul Trucking

Embracing Alcohol-based Fuels as the Key to Decarbonizing Long-Haul Trucking

June 22, 2020 |

By Peter Sopher, Senior Associate at Clean Energy Ventures Special to The Digest Automobile manufacturers such as Nissan, Chevy, Tesla, BYD, and others have successfully elevated battery-powered electric cars, vans, and even buses from being niche, expensive, and poor-performing transportation solutions to becoming mainstream and affordable with marked improvements in performance and range. But a […]

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Renewable Fuels Expansion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo’s Next-Gen Renewable Fuels

Renewable Fuels Expansion: The Digest’s 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Gevo’s Next-Gen Renewable Fuels

June 22, 2020 |

Gevo is developing a platform to fund expansion projects in the next phase of its unique, next generation renewable fuels business. Their commercial-scale facilities are converting agricultural, forestry and other feedstocks to high value, low pollutant, low carbon substitutes for gasoline and jet fuel. So they check alot of boxes, but is that all? Get the […]

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