NUU launches: the Digital Voice of the advanced bioeconomy

In Florida, Nuu, the Digital Voice of the Advanced Bioeconomy officially debuted as a new digital content portal for the new physical world of the advanced bioeconomy NUU will cover advanced genetics, nutrition, biomaterials, renewable fuels, green chemicals, advanced agriculture, robotics, microbes and catalysts.

If it’s new and sustainable, it’s in Nuu.

“Innovation in the advanced bioeconomy is changing quickly and profoundly how we dress, eat, drink, drive, fuel, build, package, maintain, and get well,” said Ascension editor Jim Lane. “There’s hardly in the product in the home, office, kitchen, closet or garage that isn’t being changed right now by new ingredients and replacement products coming out of the lab. We can’t wait to showcase the excitement out of research centers, emerging companies, and brand name players around the world.”

Nuu features online content, daily newsletters, slides shows, webinars, BioChannel.TV filmed content, and BioChannel Audio. The platform features a group of staff contributors and a who’s who in the bioeconomy as contributors of Thought Leadership columns, Multi-Slide Guides, interviews and documentaries.

Where to find Nuu online and in newsletter form

Nuu can be found online at nuudigest.com. Nuu will also be available in newsletter form three times a week, beginning October 18th. The frequency will expend to each weekday in January. Subscriptions are free are available here.

The advanced bioeconomy’s growth

The bioeconomy comprises those parts of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea – such as crops, forests, fish, animals and micro-organisms – to produce food, materials and energy.

The European bioeconomy is generating 18.3 million jobs and driving €2.1 trillion in annual revenue in the E28, says nova-insitut, in a report for the Bio-based Industries Consortium released in March. Applying that figure to global GDP, the global bioeconoy would generate $14.21 trillion in annual revenue .

The sector is growing fast because of a materials revolution. The Biotechnology Innovation Organization released a landmark report “Advancing the Biobased Economy,” documenting an expected surge in the global renewable chemicals and materials business to $700B by 2020.

New writers joining with the NUU launch

Three new writers are joining the staff with the launch of NUU to help expand our coverage.

Rebecca Coons

Rebecca fell into science reporting after graduating from Providence College with degrees in Chemistry and English and landing her first job as an editor at Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. Her interest in all-things-biobased, however, began in 2007 when she took a reporter position at Chemical Week magazine. Rebecca started out covering commodity chemicals, feedstocks, and pricing, eventually graduated to specialty chemicals and regulations, and for the last five years has covered green chemistry, innovation, and renewable chemicals and fuels. She also moonlights as executive editor of the peer-reviewed journal Industrial Biotechnology. When she’s not combing Google Alerts for story ideas, she can probably be found watching The Simpsons, playing on her touch football team, or cheering on the New England Patriots.

Gary Scoggins

Gary Scoggins is Chairman and CEO of EnerSysNet Canada Inc. a company engaged in developing technologies for renewable transportation fuels.  A natural curiosity for science and technologies combined with a vision for what could be has led Gary to design and execute business models from new, emerging and overlooked capabilities in industries as diverse as homeland security, renewable energy and chocolate.

Helena Kennedy

Helena frequently publishes articles on key environmental issues, sustainability, marketing, and communications topics in magazines and online. She is a conference speaker and trainer on communication strategies, event planning and management, and member/client relations.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations, with a minor in Asian Studies and a Concentration in Environmental Policy from Mount Holyoke College. She also earned a Masters of Business Administration from University of Maryland University College.  She was born in Venezuela to Portuguese parents and raised in the United States, thus considering herself a child of the world. Helena is fluent in English, conversational Portuguese and Spanish, and beginning Japanese.  She has worked with for-profit and nonprofit organizations, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), who share her passion for improving environmental sustainability and human rights.