The Prix Voltaire is an award given to an individual who makes a difference through substantial relevance to society and has a clear innovative identity.
Awarded by the Nyenrode Business University, the award is based on the 17 sustainable development goals. Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, LanzaTech CEO, was the recipient of the 2021 Prix Voltaire International and received the distinguished award at a ceremony at the Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, earlier this month.
COP26 wrapped up in Glasgow, and despite a lack of consensus, Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, participated in a series of panels on transportation and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). A team from South Pole was also at COP26, and we continued to promote their net-zero report. We worked with On to help launch a new running shoe made from carbon emissions and continued to promote the collaboration between LanzaTech, Shell, SAS, and Vattenfalloup.vattenfall.com. Both helped us gain publicity worldwide, from North America to Europe, including Sweden and Spain, and in the Asia-Pacific area, including China and New Zealand. Finally, locally, we worked with the Guild of Artists and Artisans to promote the final art fair of 2021, with 60+ artists selling their masterpieces just in time for the holidays.
With COP26 in Glasgow to two product launches in Switzerland and Sweden, it has been another busy week. We are also preparing locally for the final art fair of the season in Michigan and Ford Motor Company announced its collaboration with Fermata Energy and New Lab. From Bloomberg to Emirate Business, here is a sample of the media from this week.
Swiss sports brand On is leading a supply chain coalition to reshape carbon waste into running shoes, cooperating with LanzaTech and Borealis. Today, On is announcing CleanCloud™ – a new high-performance foam for running shoes, created using carbon emissions as a raw material. With CleanCloud™, On is making carbon emissions the starting point for creating EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) foam – a material they are engineering into high-performance cushioning for running shoes. There’s also the potential to use it in other parts of the shoe, and other products, in the future. You can find a copy of the news release online here. This announcement with On follows LanzaTech’s launch earlier this week over a collaboration with SAS, Vattenfall, and Shell to produce sustainable aviation fuel in Sweden. Last week, a product launch with Unilever on a new dish soap now available in stores made from waste emissions. As world leaders continue to negotiate about addressing our climate crises, companies like On, LanzaTech, and Borealis are working to avoid a climate catastrophe in changing the supply chain and getting new sustainable products into the marketplace.
Vattenfall, SAS, Shell and LanzaTech will together investigate the production of the world’s first synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the LanzaJetTM “Alcohol to Jet” technology on a large scale in Sweden. Instead of using virgin fossil material in the production process, the synthetic SAF will be produced from fossil free electricity and recycled carbon dioxide from district heating.
Leading up to COP26 this was another big week for our clients. We worked with Swiss-based global climate solutions provider South Pole in launching their annual net zero report, The Push and Pull of Net Zero: Drivers of Climate Action and secured this article in Forbes and Edie, based in the U.K.; LanzaTech, a Chicago-based carbon technology company was featured on CNN in this story on carbon solutions. And with LanzaTech’s CEO in Saudi Arabia speaking at the Future Investment Initiative (FII), we had amazing covering in publications such as Bloomberg and Arabian Business.Also this week, Ford in partnership with New Lab, announced our client, Charlottesville-based Fermata Energy was selected as one of 5 startups for the new Michigan Central Mobility Studio.
It was another busy week for our clients wrapping up a trip by the US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and US Senator Jon Ossoff, as reported by Politico, among other news stories about LanzaTech, including this amazing video from Vice.
As the aviation industry calls for the transition to sustainable aviation fuel, more resources will be needed domestically to produce it. US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and US Senator Jon Ossoff toured LanzaTech's Freedom Pines Biorefinery in Soperton, Georgia, last week to highlight the investments the US government is making to achieving the President's climate policy while bolstering American infrastructure, creating jobs in rural America, and leveraging waste gases to produce fuel while keeping carbon underground.
We had another busy week working on behalf of our clients. Today, the U.S. Secretary of Energy (and former Governor of Michigan) Jennifer Granholm, along with U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) visited LanzaTech and LanzaJet’s biorefinery in Soperton, Georgia. We worked with the Department of Energy and Senator Ossoff’s office to coordinate that visit. This weekend the Guild of Artists and Artisans is hosting their Annual Artoberfest, and we were able to develop content for the Washtenaw Area Apartment Association.
Last week was another busy week for our clients. We highlighted the work of artists with disabilities whose works were on display as part of the UNESCO Detroit Month of Design; One of Detroit’s most anticipated restaurants opened after it was able to hire enough staff; LanzaTech continues to make headlines with its climate solutions, and electric vehicles continue to remain top of mind but now with options for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) capabilities.
Zillow, a real estate marketplace, wants me and other county registers of deeds to give it a copy of the title to your home free of charge, and it wants you, the taxpayer, to subsidize it. House Bills 4729-4732 are a package of bills backed by Zillow that would eliminate the statutory fees required for copies and images of data from Michigan property ownership record
The White House set a goal of replacing all jet fuel with sustainable alternatives by 2050, saying it could cut emissions from flying by 20 percent by the end of the decade. To help meet that goal, the Department of Energy (DOE), announced more than $64 million in funding for 22 projects focused on developing technologies and processes that produce low-cost, low-carbon biofuels as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge.
It continues to be a busy week with our clients with two major events this weekend including UNESCO’s Detroit’s Month of Design and the Common Ground Birmingham Street Art Fair, benefiting Common Ground and their mission of bringing people from crises to hope. You can learn more about UNESCO’s Detroit’s Month of Design by watching this great story by Hilary Golston from FOX 2 News in Detroit. We also worked with Carey Biron at Reuters to focus on how LanzaTech is turning pollution into products we are using every day and with Liz Morrison from GreenBiz who wrote an amazing story to help all better understand electric vehicles and what companies and government can do to make them more affordable.
Despite the holiday weekend, it was a busy week for our clients. Executives from LanzaTech and LanzaJet participated in a (virtual) roundtable discussion on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at The White House, where President Joe Biden announced his Administration's plans to reduce aviation emissions by 20% by 2030. Both LanzaTech and LanzaJet received funding from the US Department of Energy to domestically produce SAF at their plant in Soperton, GA. This week and on behalf of Fermata Energy, we announced a new partnership with electric-mobility company Revel and clean energy developer NineDot Energy to install Fermata Energy Energy V2X systems to begin powering Revel’s Superhub in Brooklyn. We also worked to let local media in Detroit know about a special art exhibition at The Scarab Club made by artists with developmental disabilities through STEPs PASC. It is part of Detroit City of Design and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). And we worked to inform the community about next week’s Common Ground Birmingham Street Art Fair where there will be an art auction benefiting Common Ground’s mission helping people move from crisis to hope.
Electric mobility company Revel, clean energy developer NineDot Energy, and leading vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology services provider, Fermata Energy, today announced a new partnership focused on testing V2G technology and operations. V2G has the potential to play a major role in supporting grid reliability by using the batteries in fleets of electric vehicles (EVs) to supply energy back to the grid during times of peak electricity demand. This technology could also be crucial to expanding the adoption of solar and wind by acting as a source of backup power when the sun goes down or when the wind stops blowing. Revel is the first electric mobility company to deploy V2G technology.
Another week comes to an end and with the help of our partners and journalists, we were able to share our client’s stories by making them relevant to the news cycle and to news that people find valuable. Here is just a sample of news we generated this week in publications from New Zealand to Spain and back to the United States.
