Guayule researcher honored »
The Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC), an international, nonprofit educational and scientific organization, held its 20th annual conference this month on September 7-11 in College Station, Texas. During the closing banquet and awards ceremony, Katrina Cornish, PhD, Senior Vice President, Research & Development at Yulex Corporation was honored with the AAIC’s 2008 [...]
Yuma, Arizona names Guayule its Crop of the Week »
Kurt Nolte, an agriculture agent and Yuma County Cooperative Extension director, picked guayule to spotlight in the Yuma Sun as his Crop of the Week. He writes: “Clean new technologies make it possible to extract natural rubber, latex, ethanol, non-toxic adhesives and other specialty chemicals from guayule…. Yulex Corp. has been positioning Arizona as the epicenter [...]
Yulex CEO presenting at Green Summit in Phoenix Sep. 6 »
The Green Summit is expected to draw 10,000 attendees to its trade show and Advancing Sustainability Conference at the Phoenix Convention Center Sep. 5 to 6 in Arizona. Yulex CEO Jeffrey Martin will present “Using Sustainability as a Guide for Business Growth,” sharing his experience taking Yulex Corporation and its sustainable model from concept to commercial success. [...]
$10-million prize for small-scale biofuels system »
Prize Capital has announced that it’s developing an innovation contest called the Biofuels Prize for small-scale decentralized renewable energy: “The Biofuels Prize will encourage innovators to develop the new technologies necessary to produce biofuels in methods that do not compete with food crops for land and water, do not encourage deforestation and do not exclude [...]
World needs alternatives to biofuels from food crops »
Time Magazine takes on ethanol in this week’s cover story: The Clean Energy Scam. The article opens with a bird’s eye view over the Amazon rain forest as ranchers and farmers are doubling deforestation this year because biofuels have jacked up global crop prices. But, the Amazon is a storehouse for carbon and deforestation only [...]
