Category: Top Stories

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 | Jim Lane

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 […]

Happy Holidays for many thanks to 2018 Farm Bill

December 22, 2018 | admin

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 […]

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

December 19, 2018 | Jim Lane

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 […]

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 | Jim Lane

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 […]

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

December 17, 2018 | Jim Lane

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 […]

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

December 15, 2018 | admin

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 […]

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 | Jim Lane

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 […]

Zymergen, the Porsche 911 of the Materials Superhighway, raises $400M in monumental Series C round

December 13, 2018 | Jim Lane

We call it the materials superhighway to suggest an awesome speed of innovation, a connection back to the genetics revolution and the information superhighway, and a focus on the new materials, chemicals, substances, and energies of the advanced bioeconomy. That superhighway may have just found its Porsche 911 — fast as lightning, stunning design and […]

Year of the Tree, CORSIA fuels, Mabus’ remarks, a breakthrough on woody biomass?: Heard on the Floor at the CAAFI general meeting

December 11, 2018 | Jim Lane

When the world’s leaders for sustainable aviation fuels have a general meeting the week before the COP24 global climate sessions (this year in Poland), you can bet that the focus will be breaking the “You Can Have Two out of Three Conundrum” of aviation fuels. Which is to say: affordable, available at scale, and sustainable, pick […]

What’s the Buzz? Heard on the floor at the COP24, on renewable fuels and more

December 10, 2018 | Jim Lane

COP24 descends on Katowice, Poland. What’s the buzz, what’s the mood? The Mood “Pretty intense I’d say. Good.” notes Climate Ethanol Alliances’s James Cogan. “We’ve been in a dozen transport energy events so far.” The Message “Fortunately the IEA had their big event today, and they shouted it loud and clear.. “use bioenergy in transport […]

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