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LA-based startup Mi Terro is using biotechnology to turn a portion of that food waste into sustainable fibers for biodegradable T-shirts. Did you know that 128 million tons of milk are wasted every year? MORE
Powered by ground heat pumps and solar energy , the conceptual design promotes a new type of urban development that not only meets the needs of local citizens, but also uses technology and biotechnology to reduce its environmental impact and improve livability. MORE
We are looking for someone who is both passionate about sustainability and biotechnology and looking to accelerate their professional development. Experience with biotechnology, manufacturing, or supply chain analytics a plus. Economics Extern | Nature’s Fynd | Chicago. Nature’s Fynd is a groundbreaking food tech company born out of NASA-supported research on extremophiles in the geothermal pools of Yellowstone National Park. MORE
On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. Longtime opponents of biotechnology think that would be a good thing. For the last few years, writers and scientists have marveled at the potential for gene editing to allow farmers to grow more food on less land and allow more of the earth to grow carbon-sucking forests and savannas. The main advantage of gene editing is precision. MORE
Melanie Welham, executive director of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, said the projects and others awarded funding on Friday would "help increase UK agricultural productivity and global competitiveness". "At MORE
The results have been published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology. MORE
She wants to attract new industries to the state like biotechnology and those that will be needed in the energy transition, like manufacturing of electric car parts and advanced nuclear reactors. Merav Ben-David may be the most unlikely candidate to pop up in the entire 2020 election cycle. The Israel-born wildlife ecologist and Democrat is running for U.S. Senate in Wyoming, hoping to fill the vacancy left by Mike Enzi, who is retiring this year. MORE
National standards body partners with government innovation agency InnovateUK and the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum on major new report setting out full potential for bio feedstocks. This "virtuous cycle" will stimulate investment in industrial biotechnology, it states. MORE
Pow’s vision is to transform the landscape of bio-manufacturing by leveraging revolutionary biotechnology to enable environmentally sustainable and financially feasible continuous bio-manufacturing. MORE
Unilever's Clean Future program specifically will focus on funding biotechnology research, CO2 use and low-carbon chemistry, as well as biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations. Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products. MORE
We are looking for someone who is both passionate about sustainability and biotechnology and looking to accelerate their professional development. Experience with biotechnology, manufacturing, or supply chain analytics a plus. Economics Extern | Nature’s Fynd | Chicago. Nature’s Fynd is a groundbreaking food tech company born out of NASA-supported research on extremophiles in the geothermal pools of Yellowstone National Park. MORE
A survey of 600 farmers carried out by the pollster on behalf of Swiss biotechnology giant Syngenta in February found 72 per cent were worried about the impact of climate change on their crop yields, animal health, and ability to do business. MORE
The paper ‘Physiological and transcriptional response to drought stress among bioenergy grass Miscanthus species’ is published in Biotechnology for Biofuels. Miscanthus grass grown as a crop for biofuels. MORE
Specific competency/ expertise related to technology sector client sustainability challenge(s) (including Information & Communications Technology and/or Biotechnology). Position: Mid/Senior level Sustainability Consultant. Location: San Francisco Bay Area. Job Description: Anthesis is seeking a mid or senior level sustainability consultant to be based in the San Francisco Bay area with expertise in working with the Tech Sector. MORE
The new processes, which reflect scientific advancements in industrial biotechnology and electrolysis, range from fermentation (using proprietary microorganisms) to electrocatalysis and are at varying stages of development (research scale to full commercialization). MORE
Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programmes, and then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibres by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed. MORE
“This project is both an excellent example of what expertise in industrial biotechnology can achieve and a triumph in converting a challenging industrial residue into a higher value product using microbes. Molasses is one of the by-products contributed to the project by Nordic Soya. MORE
The Manchester research group, led by Professor Nigel Scrutton, Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and supported by the prestigious US-based international maritime research agency Office of Naval Research Global (ONR), is using synthetic biology to help identify a more efficient and sustainable method to make biofuel than the one currently used. Biotechnology- reducing environmental impact. MORE
But it goes from regional engineering solutions through biotechnology, through gene editing, and all the way up to solar geoengineering. MORE
Microvi | Biotechnologies for safe drinking water, wastewater treatment, and renewable chemicals | watch. In mid-May, we hosted over 270 entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, and changemakers at our 6th annual Interactive. CEOs and leaders of 19 portfolio companies spoke about the ir vision to move markets in energy, water, agriculture, mobility, and the circular economy and outlined the opportunities that will come from looking around corners to solve them. MORE
The partnership builds on Drax's on-going work with Deep Branch Biotechnology to explore the potential of using trapped CO2 emissions to make proteins for animal feed. Energy giant to work with Econic to pioneer new uses for trapped carbon. MORE
Yoler has been very active in continuing her education at Stanford in board governance, biotechnology, biochemistry, neuropsychology, neuroscience and geology. Join WCS for a panel discussion to explore reasons for under-representation and how to achieve higher diversity on corporate boards. MORE
Ramani Narayan, a professor at the Michigan Biotechnology Institute’s College of Engineering who was not involved in the study, agreed, although he stressed that the new research doesn’t exactly exonerate Asian countries. China and Japan are among the “ many, many countries ” flooding U.S. MORE
A possible solution that stands out from its competition has been presented by Mycorena , a biotechnology company in Sweden, where the key method relies on the use of edible filamentous fungi as a high-protein substituent component for the feed industry. They create value out of waste using fungi biotechnology, which in practice means transforming industrial waste streams into value-added bio-based products. MORE
Green City Solutions' approach is based on biotechnology, a moss culture, which has the ability to attract air pollutants from its surroundings and convert them into its own biomass. Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. We have all seen the images of a smog-filled China city, people wearing masks and authorities banning people to go outside. MORE
And unlike the Greens, Sustainable New Zealand is not opposed to science (particularly biotechnology), nor is it hostile towards business, and seeks to work with farmers, not against them. Bright Blue's Patrick Hall. MORE
Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programs, then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibers by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed. MORE
Cheap electricity also will drive synthetic biology — the intersection of information and biotechnologies, where Moore's Law meets Mendel , the father of genetics. Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. MORE
We’ll be featuring 10 startups leveraging software, data science, and biotechnology to build a more sustainable food system. We’re thrilled to report that Better Ventures portfolio company KETOS , a provider of water intelligence solutions, closed a $9 million Series A round led by Energy Innovation. We invested in the Company’s seed round over a year ago and participated in the Series A along with existing investor Rethink Impact. MORE
The study was carried out by scientists from French bioengineering firm Carbios and the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute with the backing of a consortium of consumer goods firms, including Suntory Beverage and Food Europe - which owns soft drinks brands Ribena and Lucozade - and Nestle Waters. MORE
Unilever's Clean Future programme will be specifically focused on funding biotechnology research, CO2 utilisation, and low carbon chemistry, as well as biodegradable and water efficient product formulations. MORE
Unilever said the €1bn of funding will specifically finance biotechnology research, CO2 utilisation technologies, low carbon chemistry research, and biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations, while also helping the firm halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025. MORE
This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. MORE
Back before the pandemic, around 10,000 employees arrived every day at Genentech, a biotechnology company headquartered in South San Francisco. A major US initiative is deploying behavioural insights to slash food waste at corporate canteens. MORE
This international event will reflect the full diversity of current biotechnology science advances in research and practice that open opportunities for exploitation of knowledge, commercially or otherwise, together with news, discussion and comment on broader issues of general interest and concern Biotech France 2020 Conference will be held in Paris- France from 24 to 26June 2020. MORE
Specific competency/ expertise related to technology sector client sustainability challenge(s) (including Information & Communications Technology and/or Biotechnology). Position: Mid/Senior level Sustainability Consultant. Location: San Francisco Bay Area. Job Description: Anthesis is seeking a mid or senior level sustainability consultant to be based in the San Francisco Bay area with expertise in working with the Tech Sector. MORE
Led by Nottingham company Deep Branch Biotechnology, the project will use its unique technology to turn carbon dioxide captured at Drax's Selby power station into animal food that can be produced with minimal water usage and without the need for arable farmland. MORE
Ariel Kushmaro of the BGU Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology Engineering co-led the study. MORE
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Concern over climate change far outstripped other issues, with just 12 per cent selecting nuclear war as the "biggest risk to Earth's future", and only five and seven per cent highlighting the misuse of artificial intelligence and biotechnology, respectively. MORE
Marketed as the “only biotechnology capable of capturing and digesting 99.99% of contamination in the air,” the CleanAirZone system uses the same types of bacteria that have been used to clean the atmosphere for billions of years. At the virtual CES 2021, air purification R&D company CleanAirZone showcased its Bio-Based Air Purifier, a new product that it claims can even eliminate coronaviruses, including COVID-19, with natural biotics and enzymes derived from nature. MORE
In his two terms as Governor, Patrick oversaw the expansion of affordable health care to more than 98 percent of state residents, launched initiatives stimulating clean energy and biotechnology, won a national Race to the Top grant, and steered the state out of recession to a 25-year high in employment. The 30th edition of the SRI Conference will take place on November 13-15, 2019 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. MORE
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The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has appointed Liz Fletcher as its new director of business engagement and operations, to support the growth of Scotland’s developing bioeconomy and delivery of the National Plan for Industrial Biotechnology. Liz Fletcher. MORE
Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programs, then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibers by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed. MORE
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MARCH 11, 2021
The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has appointed Liz Fletcher as its new director of business engagement and operations, to support the growth of Scotland’s developing bioeconomy and delivery of the National Plan for Industrial Biotechnology. Liz Fletcher.
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DECEMBER 11, 2020
Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programs, then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibers by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed.
Eco-Business
OCTOBER 13, 2019
This international event will reflect the full diversity of current biotechnology science advances in research and practice that open opportunities for exploitation of knowledge, commercially or otherwise, together with news, discussion and comment on broader issues of general interest and concern Biotech France 2020 Conference will be held in Paris- France from 24 to 26June 2020.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Unilever's Clean Future program specifically will focus on funding biotechnology research, CO2 use and low-carbon chemistry, as well as biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations. Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 17, 2019
The Manchester research group, led by Professor Nigel Scrutton, Director of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and supported by the prestigious US-based international maritime research agency Office of Naval Research Global (ONR), is using synthetic biology to help identify a more efficient and sustainable method to make biofuel than the one currently used. Biotechnology- reducing environmental impact.
Business Green
JULY 20, 2020
Melanie Welham, executive director of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, said the projects and others awarded funding on Friday would "help increase UK agricultural productivity and global competitiveness". "At
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
Cheap electricity also will drive synthetic biology — the intersection of information and biotechnologies, where Moore's Law meets Mendel , the father of genetics. Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30.
GreenBiz
MAY 27, 2020
The new processes, which reflect scientific advancements in industrial biotechnology and electrolysis, range from fermentation (using proprietary microorganisms) to electrocatalysis and are at varying stages of development (research scale to full commercialization).
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The results have been published in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 20, 2020
We are looking for someone who is both passionate about sustainability and biotechnology and looking to accelerate their professional development. Experience with biotechnology, manufacturing, or supply chain analytics a plus. Economics Extern | Nature’s Fynd | Chicago. Nature’s Fynd is a groundbreaking food tech company born out of NASA-supported research on extremophiles in the geothermal pools of Yellowstone National Park.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 20, 2020
We are looking for someone who is both passionate about sustainability and biotechnology and looking to accelerate their professional development. Experience with biotechnology, manufacturing, or supply chain analytics a plus. Economics Extern | Nature’s Fynd | Chicago. Nature’s Fynd is a groundbreaking food tech company born out of NASA-supported research on extremophiles in the geothermal pools of Yellowstone National Park.
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Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 26, 2021
The paper ‘Physiological and transcriptional response to drought stress among bioenergy grass Miscanthus species’ is published in Biotechnology for Biofuels. Miscanthus grass grown as a crop for biofuels.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2021
“This project is both an excellent example of what expertise in industrial biotechnology can achieve and a triumph in converting a challenging industrial residue into a higher value product using microbes. Molasses is one of the by-products contributed to the project by Nordic Soya.
Green Tech Challenge
JULY 1, 2019
A possible solution that stands out from its competition has been presented by Mycorena , a biotechnology company in Sweden, where the key method relies on the use of edible filamentous fungi as a high-protein substituent component for the feed industry. They create value out of waste using fungi biotechnology, which in practice means transforming industrial waste streams into value-added bio-based products.
Grist
APRIL 17, 2021
This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Business Green
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programmes, and then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibres by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed.
Business Green
JANUARY 30, 2020
The partnership builds on Drax's on-going work with Deep Branch Biotechnology to explore the potential of using trapped CO2 emissions to make proteins for animal feed. Energy giant to work with Econic to pioneer new uses for trapped carbon.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Unilever said the €1bn of funding will specifically finance biotechnology research, CO2 utilisation technologies, low carbon chemistry research, and biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations, while also helping the firm halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025.
Better Ventures
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
We’ll be featuring 10 startups leveraging software, data science, and biotechnology to build a more sustainable food system. We’re thrilled to report that Better Ventures portfolio company KETOS , a provider of water intelligence solutions, closed a $9 million Series A round led by Energy Innovation. We invested in the Company’s seed round over a year ago and participated in the Series A along with existing investor Rethink Impact.
Grist
OCTOBER 7, 2019
On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. Longtime opponents of biotechnology think that would be a good thing. For the last few years, writers and scientists have marveled at the potential for gene editing to allow farmers to grow more food on less land and allow more of the earth to grow carbon-sucking forests and savannas. The main advantage of gene editing is precision.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
She wants to attract new industries to the state like biotechnology and those that will be needed in the energy transition, like manufacturing of electric car parts and advanced nuclear reactors. Merav Ben-David may be the most unlikely candidate to pop up in the entire 2020 election cycle. The Israel-born wildlife ecologist and Democrat is running for U.S. Senate in Wyoming, hoping to fill the vacancy left by Mike Enzi, who is retiring this year.
Green Tech Challenge
JANUARY 6, 2017
Green City Solutions' approach is based on biotechnology, a moss culture, which has the ability to attract air pollutants from its surroundings and convert them into its own biomass. Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. We have all seen the images of a smog-filled China city, people wearing masks and authorities banning people to go outside.
Grist
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
But it goes from regional engineering solutions through biotechnology, through gene editing, and all the way up to solar geoengineering.
Business Green
APRIL 8, 2020
The study was carried out by scientists from French bioengineering firm Carbios and the Toulouse Biotechnology Institute with the backing of a consortium of consumer goods firms, including Suntory Beverage and Food Europe - which owns soft drinks brands Ribena and Lucozade - and Nestle Waters.
Business Green
JULY 1, 2020
A survey of 600 farmers carried out by the pollster on behalf of Swiss biotechnology giant Syngenta in February found 72 per cent were worried about the impact of climate change on their crop yields, animal health, and ability to do business.
Elemental Excelerator
JUNE 12, 2019
Microvi | Biotechnologies for safe drinking water, wastewater treatment, and renewable chemicals | watch. In mid-May, we hosted over 270 entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, and changemakers at our 6th annual Interactive. CEOs and leaders of 19 portfolio companies spoke about the ir vision to move markets in energy, water, agriculture, mobility, and the circular economy and outlined the opportunities that will come from looking around corners to solve them.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Concern over climate change far outstripped other issues, with just 12 per cent selecting nuclear war as the "biggest risk to Earth's future", and only five and seven per cent highlighting the misuse of artificial intelligence and biotechnology, respectively.
AGreenLiving
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Marketed as the “only biotechnology capable of capturing and digesting 99.99% of contamination in the air,” the CleanAirZone system uses the same types of bacteria that have been used to clean the atmosphere for billions of years. At the virtual CES 2021, air purification R&D company CleanAirZone showcased its Bio-Based Air Purifier, a new product that it claims can even eliminate coronaviruses, including COVID-19, with natural biotics and enzymes derived from nature.
Business Green
APRIL 9, 2021
Back before the pandemic, around 10,000 employees arrived every day at Genentech, a biotechnology company headquartered in South San Francisco. A major US initiative is deploying behavioural insights to slash food waste at corporate canteens.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
APRIL 29, 2019
Specific competency/ expertise related to technology sector client sustainability challenge(s) (including Information & Communications Technology and/or Biotechnology). Position: Mid/Senior level Sustainability Consultant. Location: San Francisco Bay Area. Job Description: Anthesis is seeking a mid or senior level sustainability consultant to be based in the San Francisco Bay area with expertise in working with the Tech Sector.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
APRIL 29, 2019
Specific competency/ expertise related to technology sector client sustainability challenge(s) (including Information & Communications Technology and/or Biotechnology). Position: Mid/Senior level Sustainability Consultant. Location: San Francisco Bay Area. Job Description: Anthesis is seeking a mid or senior level sustainability consultant to be based in the San Francisco Bay area with expertise in working with the Tech Sector.
AGreenLiving
MARCH 19, 2020
Powered by ground heat pumps and solar energy , the conceptual design promotes a new type of urban development that not only meets the needs of local citizens, but also uses technology and biotechnology to reduce its environmental impact and improve livability.
Business Green
JANUARY 30, 2020
And unlike the Greens, Sustainable New Zealand is not opposed to science (particularly biotechnology), nor is it hostile towards business, and seeks to work with farmers, not against them. Bright Blue's Patrick Hall.
Business Green
JULY 19, 2020
Led by Nottingham company Deep Branch Biotechnology, the project will use its unique technology to turn carbon dioxide captured at Drax's Selby power station into animal food that can be produced with minimal water usage and without the need for arable farmland.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Unilever's Clean Future programme will be specifically focused on funding biotechnology research, CO2 utilisation, and low carbon chemistry, as well as biodegradable and water efficient product formulations.
Better Ventures
JANUARY 15, 2020
Pow’s vision is to transform the landscape of bio-manufacturing by leveraging revolutionary biotechnology to enable environmentally sustainable and financially feasible continuous bio-manufacturing.
Green Market Oracle
OCTOBER 20, 2019
In his two terms as Governor, Patrick oversaw the expansion of affordable health care to more than 98 percent of state residents, launched initiatives stimulating clean energy and biotechnology, won a national Race to the Top grant, and steered the state out of recession to a 25-year high in employment. The 30th edition of the SRI Conference will take place on November 13-15, 2019 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
AGreenLiving
JULY 16, 2020
LA-based startup Mi Terro is using biotechnology to turn a portion of that food waste into sustainable fibers for biodegradable T-shirts. Did you know that 128 million tons of milk are wasted every year?
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Over three years, the New Cotton Project will see textile waste collected and sorted via consumer apparel take-back programs, then regenerated into cellulose-based textile fibers by Finnish biotechnology specialist Infinited Fiber Company, the 12 project partners confirmed.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 28, 2020
Yoler has been very active in continuing her education at Stanford in board governance, biotechnology, biochemistry, neuropsychology, neuroscience and geology. Join WCS for a panel discussion to explore reasons for under-representation and how to achieve higher diversity on corporate boards.
Grist
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Ramani Narayan, a professor at the Michigan Biotechnology Institute’s College of Engineering who was not involved in the study, agreed, although he stressed that the new research doesn’t exactly exonerate Asian countries. China and Japan are among the “ many, many countries ” flooding U.S.
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