Month: January 2023

Giant trees are just one of the many unique sights on the Atlantic island chain of Cabo Verde. (Photo by Frans Neve) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis BERKELEY, California, January 31, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Each year, Berkeley-based nonprofit Ethical Traveler searches the world to find the 10 most ethical destinations that beckon visitors with forward-thinking policies, exce...[Read More]

Buddhist statues Yangon, Myanmar, February 2015 (Photo by J. Durok) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis ZUG, Switzerland, October 27, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – First the numbers. Financial investors and leaders of more than 30 faith traditions representing over 500 faith investment groups from eight religions with some three trillion dollars in assets, will meet in Zug this month....[Read More]

A crab defends its territory on a seamount in the North Atlantic. Seamounts host a very rich biodiversity, with corals, crustaceans, sponges and echinoderms among the most frequently found organisms. (Photo courtesy Mountains in the Sea Research Team, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 31, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – C...[Read More]

The Dissemination of Improved Institutional Cooking Stoves to Primary and Secondary Schools in Uganda The pupils of 600 schools need your help. See how a Ugandan cooking stove project intends to improve their lives.  Uganda, East Africa, February 2, 2018 – Part of the Maximpact mission includes assisting worthwhile projects to raise awareness. Today we would like to introduce one such project, ‘Th...[Read More]

A sign carried at the Illinois Youth Climate Strike expresses the fears of a generation. Chicago, Illinois, December 6, 2019 (Photo by Charles Edward Miller) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis NAIROBI, Kenya, December 10, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – As environmental disasters unfolded across the world in 2019, it is fearless children and young adults who have dared to speak out in ...[Read More]

OECD 2016 Forum: Lunch Debate: The Algorithmic Society, May 31, 2016, Paris, France (Photo by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Creative Commons license via Flickr BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 14, 2016 (Maximpact.com) – The European Commission has adopted a new set of ecological criteria for the award of EU Ecolabel status to makers of personal, notebook and tablet computers,...[Read More]

Elizabeth Cheney, Nanette Barragán, Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal. Images taken from their campaign sites. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, November 26, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Republican Donald Trump laid claim to the prize of President-elect earlier this month, accompanied by a Republican sweep of both Houses of Congress, so one might think the United States is united in its political will. N...[Read More]

A bee in the Agapostemon group of Western Hemisphere sweat bees, most of which are known as metallic green sweat bees for their color. Lakewood, California, April 13, 2018 (Photo by tdlucas5000) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis                                                                                                                            UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, ...[Read More]

Chinese paramilitary policemen rescue elderly people trapped in their homes by flooding rains that left 112 dead and affected 16 million people near the Yangtze, China’s longest river. July 2016, Nanjing, China (Photo courtesy Sino-German Urbanisation Partnership) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, June 25, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – Investing in more resilient infrastructure in low- a...[Read More]

Students in a second grade classroom at Nyamachaki Primary School, Nyeri County, Kenya, April 2017 (Photo by Kelley Lynch / Global Partnership for Education) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost countries between $15 trillion and $30 t...[Read More]

The wealthy enjoy the sun at St. Tropez, a coastal town on the French Riviera known for its beaches and nightlife. (Photo by Vinicius Pinheiro) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, February 6, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – “Growth will be short-term if it is based on depleting natural capital such as forests and fisheries. What our research has shown is that the value of na...[Read More]

“All investments have impacts,” she told us. “I pointed this out to the authors of the original paper published by the Rockefeller Foundation. Some of these impacts include blowing the tops off mountains and spilling oil in the Gulf of Mexico!” Not mincing words is one of the characteristics that has made Henderson a thought leader in the ethical investing movement. Futurist, evolutionary economis...[Read More]