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Diamonds from human feces, animal bones for light switches, Mercedes car with biobased materials, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of January 12th

Diamonds from human feces, animal bones for light switches, Mercedes car with biobased materials, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of January 12th

January 12, 2022 |

Last week it was elephant dung and now this week it’s human feces being turned into diamonds. Yes, you read that correctly…provocative installation artist Christoph Büchel will convert his unsold work and DNA extracted from his own feces into lab-grown diamonds. Büchel expects to make 150 such diamonds in 2022. In today’s Digest, if that’s […]

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Mercedes concept car features mushrooms, cactus, and bamboo

Mercedes concept car features mushrooms, cactus, and bamboo

January 10, 2022 |

In Germany, the new electronic concept car from Mercedes is jam-packed with biobased materials, including seat cushions made from mushrooms and a leather alternative made from cactus.  Dubbed EQXX, other renewable elements include bamboo fiber carpets.  The luxury car brand also says the EQXX can do 620 miles on a charge—much farther than any other […]

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Mercedes denies telling India its vehicles could run on B100

Mercedes denies telling India its vehicles could run on B100

July 19, 2016 |

In India, the Mercedes MD for the country says he never told the transportation minister that the company’s vehicles would be able to run on 100% biodiesel despite the minister saying he was told directly the cars and trucks would be able to run on the biodiesel spec being prepared by the ministry. The MD […]

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Unconscious Green: how people who really change the world get the job done

Unconscious Green: how people who really change the world get the job done

May 28, 2014 |

Feeling ready to go to the next level, but trapped where you are by a lack of support? How do some companies find customers, finance, market conditions, stakeholders — when others don’t? What are the instruments of change, how are they tapped? To find out more, we start our story with a look at how Starbucks rocked the commodity-priced, […]

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Amyris inks deal for renewable diesel for Sao Paulo buses

Amyris inks deal for renewable diesel for Sao Paulo buses

July 21, 2011 |

In Brazil, Amyris has completed a deal where it will supply 160 city buses in Sao Paulo with its renewable diesel from sugarcane at a 10% blend starting in August. The contract runs through 2012. Testing has shown that using the 10% blend in low sulfur diesel will reduce smoke emissions from buses by 40% […]

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