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Top 10 Things to Do While Waiting on the USDA 9003 Solicitation
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO The biobased products and fuels industry has been anxiously waiting for the new USDA Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. Authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill and with the...
7 New Changes in USDA Biorefinery Funding Opportunities: Now is the Time to Take Advantage
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO The USDA Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program, also known as the “9003” program, provides loan guarantees up to $250 million to assist in the development, construction, and...
ESG Investing and the Bioeconomy: ESG Investing Through the Financier’s Eyes
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO with collaboration from Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D. Due to a wide range of global challenges including climate change, environmental sustainability, social inequality, and the need for ethical corporate governance, ESG...
9 Ways to Establish an Ethical Framework: The Importance of Ethics in ESG Investing
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO In an exclusive Special to the Digest, Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO shares a 2-Part Series on ESG Investing and the Bioeconomy. In this first part, we look at the importance of ethics in ESG...
Measuring and Managing ESG to Attract Financing
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO In an exclusive Special to the Digest, Cynthia Thyfault, Global BioFuture Solutions, Founder and CEO shares a 2-Part Series on ESG Investing and the Bioeconomy. In this second part, we look at the importance of measuring and...
ESG Investing and the Bioeconomy: Understanding ESG Investing Frameworks, Reporting, and Stakeholders
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO with collaboration from Gerard J. Ostheimer, Ph.D. ESG reporting seeks to create a standard way for a range of investors to understand a company’s (or a fund’s or an asset’s) financial and non-financial impacts, as well as the...
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Why Embracing Failure is Good for Business
By Cynthia Thyfault, Founder & CEO Rejection is a bitter pill to swallow. And most of us have had a good dose of it. Whether we didn’t get a job we applied for, weren’t admitted to our top choice college, didn’t make it to the team we tried out for, or didn’t...