Novomer, a firm developing biodegradable plastics using carbon dioxide instead of petroleum as a feedstock, today announced the appointment of Jim Mahoney as its new chief executive officer and the relocation of company headquarters from Ithaca, N.Y. to Boston, Mass.
Mahoney recently served as the CEO of Surface Logix, a small molecule drug discovery and development company.
Novomer has been lauded by sustainability experts for its novel technology that “allows carbon dioxide and other renewable materials to be cost-effectively transformed into polymers, plastics and other chemicals for a wide variety of industrial markets”. The process akin to how plants convert carbon into energy is catalyzed by limonene oxide, a compound found in orange peels, and produces a 100-percent renewable, non-fossil fuel based polymer, according to Novomer President Charles Hamilton, who presented Sunday at the Bioneers conference in San Rafael.
“The demand for alternative materials is set to explode, based on the need to reduce environmental impact and cut costs while vastly improving performance,” said Mahoney.
In June of this year, Novomer announced its first commercial product, a clean-burning binder for manufacturing processes.
Novomer is backed by DSM Venturing, Flagship Ventures, and and Physic Ventures. The company has received support from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
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Wild
on Oct 21st, 2008
@ 4:26 pm:
In this case “Sourced From Mongabay” means the text was lifted (for commercial gain) word-for-word from mongabay without a link to the original article.
Adam
on Oct 22nd, 2008
@ 9:46 am:
My guess is that you are new to this site. Anyway, if you had been following us for a month or so, you would have seen that we initially posted snippets of articles from various sources and linked to the full articles.
See this:
Carbon News Oct 17
Carbon News Oct 16
Even before this, when we saw a story on some site and wrote about it in our own words, we linked to the original article as you can see here:
Study Shows Shipping Waste to China Cuts Carbon Footprint
And also note that in this case, we didn’t write Sourced From Guardian because we hadn’t used the story word for word.
Recently, it was decided to post full articles, which we think would give users a better experience.
So it’s not just ‘In this case’ as you mentioned but it’s now for almost every article you can see on this site.
In a week or so, we are going to get a new theme to make it look even more better and user-friendly.
So with full articles, we have the option of either linking to the original article or to the home page. Usually, one would link to the original article but for some News related CMS, the link may change or even expire. For example, this AP news article hosted by Google:
This would usually expire after 30 days. Last time I knew, Yahoo and probably some others send the articles to archives and the link would change. So one wouldn’t want to have broken links on the site.
Secondly, we are still linking to the home page of each site from where we take the article. So it’s not that we are not giving credit or we don’t want to show that we pulled the article word-for-word.
Anyone can go to and pick any phrase from the article above and search for it using the ‘Search Within a Site or Domain’ option. And you can see that we are indeed taking the verbatim articles and posting them on this site. So we are not really trying to hide this fact from anyone.
Thirdly, I wonder why you just did not link to your website neither left your original name. If you are the owner of Mongabay.com and want me to remove Mongabay stories from this site, you could have said that (and you can still say that)http://www.wildmadagascar.org and Mongabay.com are from the same person).
You can also ask me (through email) to link to the original article (rather than linking to Mongabay.com) but please do so only if the article will remain at that link permanently.
And these offers hold true for anyone from whom this site takes articles.