Category: Top Stories

Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2019

Biofuels Mandates Around the World 2019

January 1, 2019 |

In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 65 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come from the EU-27, where the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) once specified a 10 percent renewable content by 2020 but has been […]

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As industry copes with information overload, organizations report “much more of our story to share” but marketing, messaging is under-resourced

As industry copes with information overload, organizations report “much more of our story to share” but marketing, messaging is under-resourced

December 31, 2018 |

71% of industry executives believe that for their organizations, there is much more of their story to get out than they are successful in doing so far, but struggle to allocate resources to building and maintaining attention though 80% believe that establishing and hitting awareness goals is important to their company’s success. One of the […]

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Top 18 of 2018 – Looking back to look forward

Top 18 of 2018 – Looking back to look forward

December 29, 2018 |

Sometimes we need to look back in order to move forward. So on this last day of 2018, join the Biofuels Digest in looking back at our most visited and popular stories of 2018. March 6th was a big day for The Digest with the most visits on that day when people from all over […]

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Enemy submarine detecting microorganisms, algae-based polymers, edible antimicrobial film, limestone-based bags, soybean oil based road sealant: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 26th

Enemy submarine detecting microorganisms, algae-based polymers, edible antimicrobial film, limestone-based bags, soybean oil based road sealant: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 26th

December 25, 2018 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of December 26th. In today’s Digest, enemy submarine detecting microorganisms, algae-based polymers, edible antimicrobial film, limestone-based bags, soybean oil based road sealant — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. #1 […]

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Happy Holidays for many thanks to 2018 Farm Bill

Happy Holidays for many thanks to 2018 Farm Bill

December 22, 2018 |

The 2018 Farm Bill, more formally known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 was signed by President Trump on Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue’s birthday last week. So what does it mean? What stays the same? What changes? What’s the reaction? First, you can see what President Trump had to say at the signing […]

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The BioIncredibles 2: iMicrobes is using methane to produce chemicals, and Mikey the Microbe Likes It

The BioIncredibles 2: iMicrobes is using methane to produce chemicals, and Mikey the Microbe Likes It

December 19, 2018 |

It looks like the BioIncredibles from Industrial Microbes in Emeryville, CA have come up with something that may well be in the long run more potent than even the stunning 2018 box-office performance of The Incredibles 2 from Pixar, also in Emeryville, which recently passed the billion-dollar box office mark and is now Pixar’s biggest […]

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Liquid waste garments and birch tree gowns, pulp pill bottles, bioplastic advances and biobased solvents: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 19th

Liquid waste garments and birch tree gowns, pulp pill bottles, bioplastic advances and biobased solvents: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 19th

December 18, 2018 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of December 19th. In today’s Digest, liquid waste garments and birch tree gowns, pulp pill bottles, bioplastic advances and biobased solvents — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. #1 World’s […]

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Who’s Up, Down, Top, Charmed and Strange in the Bioeconomy: Learnings from the Earnings, as four bellwether stocks report

Who’s Up, Down, Top, Charmed and Strange in the Bioeconomy: Learnings from the Earnings, as four bellwether stocks report

December 17, 2018 |

In Digestville it’s Earnings Season and everywhere investors are pinning their stockings to the Industrial Chimney and hoping that Father Bioeconomy will leave presents for all the good de-carbonizing companies and less for the naughty ones who’ve yet to take the low-carbon path. Looking at earnings is like looking at quarks — you quickly sort […]

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$$$ from Neste, Fulcrum, others making renewable diesel a dream come true

$$$ from Neste, Fulcrum, others making renewable diesel a dream come true

December 15, 2018 |

There is huge news for renewable diesel right now and not just with one company or one country. It’s a global ‘wahoo’ type of ‘holy cow, is this really happening’ news. The kind of news that you have to pinch yourself to make sure it’s not just a dream. But it’s real. By The Digest’s […]

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Biobased beer can rings, algae and bugs, chitin-based plastic breakthrough, gribble gut enzymes, banana-based products: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 14th

Biobased beer can rings, algae and bugs, chitin-based plastic breakthrough, gribble gut enzymes, banana-based products: The Digest’s Top 10 Innovations for the week of December 14th

December 13, 2018 |

The pace of bioeconomy invention and change continues at a frenetic pace. Here are the top innovations for the week of December 14th. In today’s Digest, biobased beer can rings, algae and bugs, chitin-based plastic breakthrough, gribble gut enzymes, banana based products — these and more, ready for you now at The Digest online. #1 […]

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