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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Salim Rahemtulla, President, PowerTap Hydrogen Fueling Corp. Special to The Digest As the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) indicates in its Hydrogen Program Plan it published in 2020, “Hydrogen, as a versatile energy carrier and chemical feedstock, offers advantages that unite all of our nation’s energy resources—renewables, nuclear, and fossil fuels—and enables innovations in […]
In a merry mix of Canadians and Californians, lululemon athletica inc. entered a multi-year collaboration with sustainable materials leader Genomatica to bring renewably-sourced, bio-based materials into lululemon’s products. This represents lululemon’s first-ever equity investment in a sustainable materials company and Genomatica’s largest partnership within the retail industry. In today’s Digest, how together the two companies […]
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? In 2007, Bob Kozak and Joanne Ivancic visited offices on Capitol Hill on behalf of Atlantic Biomass Conversions, Kozak’s enzyme […]
So, it’s a surprise but not a shock that GreenLight Biosciences is taking part in the latest SPACmania merger, and is funding with Environmental Impact Acquisition Corp. — and will emerge sometime in the next several months on NASDAQ as the sector’s latest billion-dollar baby. The initial valuation in the deal is $1.2 billion, more […]
“I’m walking on sunshine, woooah, and don’t it feel good!!” is what you’ll be singing with this week’s innovations. Between biobased adidas shoes that hit the Olympic stage and are now available to us common folk, REI’s partially biobased trail shoe, REEF’s new renewable sandal, we certainly will be walking on sunshine. In today’s Digest, […]
In Texas, Cemvita Factory announced the initial closing of its Series A financing, specifics of funds were not yet disclosed. The company continues to aim at providing microbes as a service to help decarbonize heavy industry — and the support of investors such as Oxy and Climate Capital confirms that they continue to show the […]
