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ABO Membership Discounts Available Now

ABO’s Membership Drive is underway and we are offering great discounts for new and existing members that want to be part of the algae revolution!

Help us recruit new members and get:

— Discounts on your Corporate or Individual membership rate

— Discounts for any new members you bring to ABO

Here are the details:

Corporate Level Members:

  • Existing corporate level members will receive a 20% discount on their 2020 membership for signing up new corporate level members.*
  • Each new corporate member you recruit will also receive a 20% discount on their 2020 membership.

Individual Level Members:

  • Existing individual level members will receive a 20% discount on their 2020 membership for signing up new individual level members.*
  • Each new individual member you recruit will receive a 50% discount on their 2020 membership.

Start Recruiting Now! Offer Expires on November 15th, 2019

Ready to sign up a new member?

Contact ABO’s Barb Scheevel today at 877.531.5512 ext. 1, or email her at bscheevel@algaebiomass.org

New members do not need to be coming in at the same level as the current member. The new member must complete payment by November 15, 2019. Following payment by the new member, the recruiting member will be invoiced for membership at the 20% discounted rate. Payment must be completed by December 31, 2019.

*Each new member will receive the new member discount. Recruiting members will only receive a single discount to their membership rate.

You Can Still Submit a Poster for the 2019 Algae Biomass Summit! Get $100 off Summit registration

Poster submissions for the 2019 Algae Biomass Summit are still being accepted! If you are a student or a first-year postdoc, the Algae Biomass Organization also invites you to participate in our Young Researcher Poster Competition at the Summit.
 
Prepare a great poster, highlight your work, and earn the chance to receive one of our awards with cash prizes! Submit your poster abstract here. 
 
All accepted posters will also qualify for a $100 discount on Summit registration!
 
Once you have your abstract under review, you can register for the conference, and submit for the competition by August 16th. Check out the evaluation rubric in our Poster Presenter Guide.
 
For more information on the poster competition contact: Hannah Goemann and Adriana Alvarez De La Hoz at hannah.goemann@montana.edu & alvar353@umn.edu

New Summit Panel: Algae in Food and Feed Going Mainstream

The world needs new sources of nutritious food that can be produced without harmful impacts on ecosystems. Find out how companies are using advanced algae technologies to sustainably produce high-performing proteins, carbohydrates, and oils at the 2019 Algae Biomass Summit in Orlando, this September 16-19.
 
Check out the speakers set for the Summit’s new panel, Algae in Food and Feed Going Mainstream, below.
 

Algae in Food and Feed Going Mainstream
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

 
 
Moderator: Jill Kauffman Johnson, Head of Global Market Development, Corbion Algae Ingredients
 
 Vidar Gundersen, Global Sustainability Director, BioMar (first aquaculture feed company to utilize algae at scale in fish feed)
 
Beau Perry, CEO, Blue Evolution (producing macroalgae for food markets)
 
 
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Todd Hansen, CEO, NBO3 Technologies (producing algae-based feed for beef and pork)
 
 
Sebastian Goycoolea, CEO, BluGlacier (distributor of algae-fed salmon in the US)
 
 
 
 
 

Register for the Summit today, or check out the full agenda to see who else will be speaking at the world’s largest algae conference!

A New Cookbook that Brings Algae to the Table

IKEA’s research and design laboratory, known as SPACE10, released this month a new cookbook that looks to close the gap between the trends shaping the future of food, and what people actually want to eat. Algae is naturally a key ingredient. 

Future Food Today is a collection of recipes that acknowledges growing global populations are going to be demanding more food and that existing production systems simply can’t keep up. Algae, which grow incredibly fast without the pressures on freshwater or farmland of traditional crops, are an ideal way to meet those demands around the globe without adding additional sustainability pressures. 

The book features recipes for algae chips, using spirulina as an ingredient in a variety of dishes (including a bright green hot dog bun), and even some inspiration to grow your own algae at home. 

Algae is not the only new ingredient some of the recipes explore. Insects and other alternative protein sources are also options for the adventurous cook.

“Some of the recipes call for ingredients you may not have seen before, others are good old kitchen classics. We wanted to engage as many people as possible in this conversation, from well seasoned gourmandes to aspirational foodies. It really is a book for everyone, as long as you have a curious mind and have an interest in exploring a more sustainable future,” said Simon Perez, SPACE10’s Chef and Food Designer.

Learn more about the book at SPACE10’s website. 

Dozens of researchers, designers, entrepreneurs and investors are working to put algae on the table as global populations grow. Algae may be one of the only crops of the future that can satisfy our need for new protein without degrading valuable ecosystems. 

Ready to become part of the solution? Join us at the Algae Biomass Organization, or come to the Algae Biomass Summit to meet the leaders of the algae revolution. Now is the perfect time to become involved with a movement that is redefining agriculture, energy, and countless other industries. 

Algae Gets a More Level Playing Field with the Financing Our Energy Future Act

Financing new technology development can be challenging, and even when a technology becomes commercially viable there can be roadblocks for investors that seek to quickly capitalize on the latest advances. That’s why ABO is supporting legislation that can level the playing field for algae companies that don’t currently qualify for many of the tax advantages enjoyed by the fossil energy industry.

This month U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-DE) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Representatives Mike Thompson (D-CA-05) and Ron Estes (R-KS-04) re-introduced bipartisan legislation, the Financing Our Energy Future Act, that would allow clean energy companies to form master limited partnerships (MLPs). MLPs are operated and taxed as partnerships but can also be publicly traded, and offer investors liquidity, limited liability and dividends.

For decades, only companies that get their revenues from fossil energy extraction or pipeline projects have been permitted to form MLPs. By combining the funding advantages of corporations and the tax advantages of partnerships, these ventures have been able to more easily attract and deploy capital.

Expanding the scope of MLPs could significantly accelerate investment in clean energy projects, including algae cultivation that uses carbon capture for the production of fuel, oils or other valuable products.

Mark Allen, Chair of ABO’s board remarked: ““The Financing Our Energy Future Act will open up the master limited partnership tax-advantaged corporate structure to investors ready to finance the growth of renewable energy, carbon capture and utilization, and other vital low carbon products being deployed by the algae industry. The members of the Algae Biomass Organization thank Senators Coons and Moran, and Representatives Estes and Thompson for their leadership in introducing the Act in the 116th Congress. Allowing MLP’s to bring new capital to industry innovation and growth will help create jobs and enhance our energy and environmental security. Algae-based clean technology companies look forward to competing on the level playing field this bill will help ensure.”

In the Senate, the Financing Our Energy Future Act is cosponsored by Senators Angus King (I-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tom Carper (D-DE), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Michael Bennet (D-CO).

Read more about this important legislation here.