State of Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials
Category: Top Stories
Swiss Re, Climeworks sign world’s 1st & largest 10-year carbon removal purchase agreement
The summer of 2021 is nearly over and with it came a vast variety of extreme weather events around the world giving a peek on climate crisis consequences – Hurricane Ida’s record-breaking damage and flooding impact from New Orleans to New York, record high temperatures in Moscow, the heat dome and wildfires in North America’s […]
Competitive Edge: Clariter’s plastic waste technology
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? Clariter transforms plastic waste no one wants into high-value, pure industrial products that everybody needs. Since its formation in 2003, […]
Carbon sequestering clothing, Ginkgo Bioworks scale-up rare ingredients, fruit leaf waste fabric, sugarcane shoes and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of September 2nd
Big name shoe and apparel companies like Nike, Pangaia and Old Navy are on a sustainability roll. News from Nike on their work with Newlight Technologies for wearables that actually sequester carbon, Pangaia’s addition of two new biobased fabrics to its collection made from pineapple and banana leaf waste and nettles, eucalyptus and seaweed, and […]
The Oil Industry’s Bright Green Energy Future
By Mike Newman, Director, Parhelion Underwriting Special to The Digest The Oil industry is under pressure on many fronts in the climate change era and faces an existential threat from alternative, renewable sources of energy – but the industry is also best-positioned to win the Prize in energy’s green future. It’s “code red for humanity” […]
One if by sea, two if by sky: the search for affordable CO2 capture technology
In a companion piece, “Where will we put all the CO2?” we looked at the potential storage solutions from geologic storage to limestone. Here’s the math. According to a chart from the US Department of Energy, we need to bring 10 billion gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s enough, by volume, to fill […]
Chicken and Cow Champions – Chevron, bp dive into poultry poop and dairy doodoo for RNG
A double doozy came in the news with Chevron expanding their JV partnership with Brightmark on their dairy biomethane renewable natural gas work together, and then bp and Clean Bay Renewables’ new 15-year agreement where bp will buy RNG processed from poultry litter and sell it as fuel for the U.S. transportation sector. In today’s […]
Lab-fermented chocolate, coffee cookie cups, Apeel Sciences raises $250M, LG Chem to build $2.2 bio-buildings and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of August 27th
Chocolate without the cocoa bean? We’ve covered beef without the cow, dairy without the cow, pork without the pig, lab-grown lamb and fish, bioprinted meat, even food made out of thin air. But now we’ve got a no-cocoa chocolate in an effort to address the climate, child labor and human rights concerns surrounding the cocoa […]
The Fuel Economy Rule: An EPA That Won’t See, Hear, or Speak to the Facts
By Doug Durante, Executive Director Clean Fuels Development Coalition Special to The Digest The release of the highly anticipated revision of the Safe Affordable Fuel Efficient Vehicle (SAFE) proposed rule this month was, for the biofuels industry, yet another poke in the eye as the EPA totally ignored reality and continued their long history of […]
SUSTAINABLE HIGHWAYS: New technologies will help us Build Healthier Societies in 7 Ways
Wonder of an earlier age, the modern limited-access highway is a commonplace of our times that we almost never give a thought to it — it’s just there, seems eternal and never changes, like granite formations or the fortunes of the Seattle Mariners. Change is coming, and perhaps soon. Because the most important fact of […]
