Media kit

What is NARA?

Led by Washington State University and funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) is helping to develop a sustainable industry in the Pacific Northwest that uses forest residuals to make biojet fuel and valuable co-products. The alliance includes public universities, government agencies, private industry and interested stakeholders and is tasked with delivering the following:

Sustainable aviation biofuel from woody biomass
Value-added polymer and carbon products from lignin
Regional supply chain coalitions
Rural economic development
Bioenergy literacy

This exciting project impacts many of the top news stories today covering rural economics, natural resource management, biofuel technology, energy security and global warming.

Thanks for your interest. Embedded in this media page are numerous links. Please contact me if you require additional information or have suggestions for improving this media page.

Best Regards,

Charles Burke
NARA Communications and Publicity Director

USDA-NIFA funding

NARA is primarily supported by an Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2011-68005-30416 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Duration: 5-year contingency grant. Review after two years (July 2013)
5-year funding amount: $40 million
Start date: August 2011

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Please attribute credit to NARA when using any of these images.

These images are available under Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND. This license allows others to download our work and share them with others as long as the work acknowledges NARA, and the appropriate member where applicable. The work cannot be changed or used commercially.

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Please attribute credit to NARA when using any of these videos.

These videos are available under Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND. This license allows others to download our work and share them with others as long as the work acknowledges NARA, and the appropriate member where applicable. The work cannot be changed or used commercially.

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Helpful links

NARA Final Reports

“These reports provide a final assessment of the work related to individual tasks assigned to NARA”. Reports are being finalized, and all reports should be presented by early 2017.

Agriculture and Aviation: Partners in Prosperity/January 2012

Published by USDA, Airlines for America and the Boeing Company, this report provides rationale for biofuel support and highlights 5 USDA-NIFA-AFRI coordinated agricultural projects.

USDA News Release O425.11

News release for five U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grants in the renewable energy program. NARA is one of the five grantees.

USDA News Release 0423.11

News release provides quotes from notable stakeholders and policy makers regarding USDA’s support for NARA and other AFRI programs.

Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest: Powering the Next Generation of Flight

This report is the nations first regional stakeholder effort to explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the production of sustainable aviation fuels.

Biomass as feedstock for a bioenergy and bioproducts Industry: The technical feasibility of a billion-ton annual supply

A collaborative study by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine whether the land resources of the United States are capable of producing a sustainable supply of biomass sufficient to displace 30 percent or more of the country’s present petroleum consumption.