Another world first just happened! All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest airline, took another step forward in advancing its leadership in sustainability, operating a regularly scheduled commercial domestic flight utilizing sustainable aviation fuel made from microalgae, blended with traditional jet fuel. Yes, SAF made from microalgae. And it was the first flight in the world […]
By the Iowa Economic Development Authority Special to The Digest It’s a safe bet that most people know much more about viruses and vaccines than they did a year ago. But while COVID-19 has brought viral diseases and the methods we use to fight them into the mainstream, experts at the University of Iowa (UI) […]
It’s a star-studded week for the Top 8 Innovations with singer Kanye West’s Yeezy Runner sneakers made with algae-foam, famous quarterback Tom Brady’s biodegradable sunglasses support, and professional surfer Dane Gudauskas’s Eco Theory biobased Vans footwear. Not to be left out, Adidas invested $3.65 million in the IPO of Spinnova which uses wood and agricultural […]
By David J. Robichaud, Robert M. Baldwin, and Thomas D. Foust, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Special to The Digest A recent article in Biofuels Digest by Guske and Warner titled, “The Coming Apocalypse: Will Industrial Biotech Flourish or Flounder”, put forward a compelling argument about the diminishing capacity of contract research and manufacturing organizations (CRO/CMO) […]
CIRCULAR debuts, a journal of sciences, ideas and technologies with major personalities, in-depth journalism, and inviting design. Today, a new magazine of science, ideas and sustainable brands appears from the creators of The Daily Digest, the world’s most widely-read bioeconomy daily: CIRCULAR. From Nobel Prize-winning scientists to Hollywood celebs, everyone is talking ‘circular economy’ and […]
News arrived late last week that Cargill and HELM have formed a JV known as Qore to help leading brands replace fossil-based chemistries with bio-based intermediates, and are investing a combined $300 million to build the first commercial-scale, renewable BDO (1,4-butanediol) facility in the U.S. Today, let’s look behind the headlines. Despite all the “California, […]
News came from Carbios, the French biotech company pioneering new enzymatic solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, that they acquired shares of a joint venture, Carbiolice – which strengthens its capacity to develop its activities on polymers biodegradation beyond PLA (polylactic acid). You may recall that in May, Carbios raised about […]
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? Sweet Gazoil was founded to solve water pollution from waste and used oil. EPA states that 60% of water pollution […]
This week’s Top 8 Innovations are feeding our appetite. With cultured meat innovator MeaTech filing a provisional U.S. patent application for its bioprinting method for printing up some juicy steaks, 3D printed algae that could help future Mars colonies, Swiss coffee capsules now made from bioplastic, and the world’s first cell-cultured human breast milk for […]
For an invisible gas, hydrogen seems to come in more colors than boy of crayons. And, you have to learn to weed out the greenwash and the cleanwash. And some of the hogwash. Take for example the news from North Dakota, where Bakken Energy and Mitsubishi Power Americas, inked a strategic partnership agreement to create […]
