News has arrived from Washington that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 projects under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity. It’s become the US Department of Action, as it turns out, the grand ol’ USDA. Big wins for industrials include: $5M for Scaling Up the […]
It’s been so warm and dry in France this year that the corn harvest is in rough condition. But having said that, the expansion of wind energy is bound to be exciting to fans of green hydrogen, and the technology coming out of France is exciting enough that, when the rains return, there will be […]
Controversial palm oil is used in so many things today, but Unilever and Genomatica are looking at commercializing alternatives for palm oil and fossil fuel ingredients in cleaning and personal care products. Even the 2022 FIFA World Cup is looking at more sustainable items and will use soccer balls produced in Pakistan using partially biobased […]
In the Netherlands, building a home from straw or fungi could earn you a cheaper mortgage. Introduced by Triodos, a bank headquartered in Zeist, the “bio-based mortgage” provides a lower interest rate to homes bought or built using materials such as wood, flax, or fungi. The bank estimates just 1-2% of buildings in the country […]
3D printed bioslides from adidas are set to launch soon as are a Grateful Dead themed collection of biosneakers and sandals. Absolut is trialing biobased bottle caps for more sustainable spirits and French Cognac brand Maison A de Fussigny has debuted a plant-based flax fiber bottle for its organic cognac. Cheers to that! In today’s […]
This week’s Top 8 Innovations are offering up real solutions to real problems. Biologists have been testing biopolymer blocks for coral reef restoration giving hope for ocean biodiversity, while a startup is turning invasive fish species lionfish into a sustainable alternative to cow leather. In today’s Digest, check out these marine bioinnovations as well […]
We’ve reported on beef without the cows, pork without the pig, dairy without the cow and now we have honey without the bee from California start-up MeliBio which raised $7.5 million to scale and commercialize its precision fermentation and plant science and tech to manufacture honey. In today’s Digest, we also have Texas-based Dell exploring […]
In Texas, Dell Technologies has launched a prototype laptop featuring biobased components as it looks to increase product content and packaging from recycled or renewable materials as one lever for cutting emissions in half by 2030. The prototype is part of Concept Luna, a “parallel innovation workstream” with Intel aimed at accelerating circular design in […]
We know smartphones and electronics are huge resource sucks that utilize rare minerals, fossil fuels, and precious resources, so cheers to a China-based smartphone maker that is now using a biobased polycarbonate copolymer produced by Saudi Arabia’s SABIC. And in Japan, Kaneka is investing $130 million to triple production capacity for its biopolymer brand Green […]
In Sweden, electric car manufacturer Polestar has tapped artist Thijs Biersteker and his Woven Studio design group to showcase the strength and durability of biobased materials. For the project, Biersteker created an interactive sculpture named “We Harvest Wind” that was inspired by Polestar’s Life Cycle Assessment report. The work features a spherical shape suspended […]
