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Tag Archives: environment
Earth Day 2012: Biotech Contributions to Sustainability
This Sunday, April 22, the world celebrates Earth Day as the biotech industry continues to do its part to make the agriculture industry more sustainable. Biotech allows us to meet the food production demands of a growing population in an economical way while lessening environmental impact. Reducing Emissions Low or no-till agriculture, in limited use prior to 1996, has enabled farmers to shift to simpler, more effective agronomic practices that better contain carbon in the Read More >
Biofuels Done Right?
Images from the “slow-motion catastrophe” that began last week 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana brought to mind a bit of sarcasm I offered to a colleague almost exactly a year ago. The NRDC was running the below ad on Capitol Hill, saying, “Biofuels. If we’re going to use them, let’s do it right,” with a picture of the deforestation that many assumed would occur from use of biofuels. My facetious idea was to Read More >
Ways and Means Should Include Job Creation of Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts in Green Jobs Leg
On Wednesday, April 14 the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on Energy Tax Incentives Driving the Green Job Economy. The focus of the hearing is to examine the effectiveness of current energy tax policy and identify additional steps that the Committee can take to ensure continued job growth in this area while at the same time advancing national energy policy focus on a discussion of current and proposed energy tax incentives. Read More >
Biofuels & Climate Change
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Tags: BIO, biobased products, biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biotechnology, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, environment, ethanol, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, Investment, lifecycle analysis, oil demand, Oil prices, renewable chemical, renewable fuel standard, Sustainability, sustainable energy, venture financing
Tags: BIO, biobased products, biofuel, Biofuel Technology, biofuels, biotechnology, cellulosic, climate change, Climate Change, environment, ethanol, greenhouse gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, greenhouse gas emissions, Investment, lifecycle analysis, oil demand, Oil prices, renewable chemical, renewable fuel standard, Sustainability, sustainable energy, venture financing
Industrial Biotechnology: Biobased Products, Biofuels, and Synthetic Biology
Biobased products cover a wide range of materials. One new such product is biobased insulation made from mushrooms named Greensulate. The blog Greenline says that Greensulate, “…is a bio-base alternative to rigid insulation made from paper, rice hulls, and mushroom fibers. The product is still undergoing testing but the outlook for this new product is very good. The insulation takes advantage of the mycellium, the roots of the mushroom plant that have incredible structural and Read More >
From Pacific Rim Summit: Specialty Crops, Renewable Feedstocks & Sustainability
This panel on the second day of the Summit consisted of Richard Gustafson from the University of Washington, Gillian Madill, an independent consultant representing views of the environmental NGO community and John Sheehan, from the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. While Mr. Gustafson and Mr. Sheehan gave informative talks on lifecycle assessment modeling and sustainability issues, Ms. Madill lit up the room with her talk titled, “Environmental Concerns with Energy Biotechnologies.” Read More >
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