Month: January 2023

By Marta Maretich, Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom “Corruption is a disaster for development. It wastes the resources that can build sustainable economies, guts confidence in government, and fuels inequality and conflict. So common sense dictates that massive global efforts to end poverty must find a way to fight corruption, or they will fail.”  —Dana Wilkins So writes Dana Wilkins, an analyst for G...[Read More]

Water is returned to Australia’s Murray River through a Nature Conservancy Water Sharing Investment Partnership, 2016. (Photo by Brian Richter) Posted for media use. By Sunny Lewis  STOCKHOLM, Sweden, September 1, 2016 (Maximpact.com) – Water scarcity is a top risk to global prosperity and ecological integrity. But creative impact investment solutions, such as Water Sharing Investment Partnerships...[Read More]

Men cultivating land following heavy rain in Endulen, Tanzania (Photo by Geoff Sayer / Oxfam) Creative Commons license via Flickr) By Sunny Lewis DAR ES SALAAM, Tansania, June 23, 2016 (Maximpact.com) – Smallholder households, cultivating less than five acres, have financial needs that have been ignored until now, yet without this information, it’s tough for financial service providers supply smal...[Read More]

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and the time to act is now if there is any chance of combatting and reversing its effects. Some of the hazards of climate change and global warming are extreme weather conditions, depletion of the ozone layer, wildfires, loss of biodiversity, stress on food production systems and the spread of infectious diseases. Climate change affect...[Read More]

A pile of corn purchased at Kurtkoy Market, Istanbul, Turkey, June 19, 2009 (Photo by CCarlstead) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis SEATTLE, Washington, June 13, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – The warming climate is likely to result in increased volatility of grain prices, maize production shocks and reduced food security, finds new research published Monday in the U.S. journal “Proc...[Read More]

Scientists Sebastian Palluk and Daniel Arlow in their synthetic biology lab at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute, June 18, 2018 (Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Energy) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, June 19, 2018 (Maximpact.com  News) – Synthetic biology expands the possibilities for creating new weapons, such as making existing bacteria and viruses more h...[Read More]

Where will you get your impact investing MBA? Where business-minded millennials decide to pursue their MBA has far-reaching implications for where and how the largest wealth transfer in history unfolds. MBA graduates of the next ten to twenty years will change the face of impact investing and the schools they attend will help decide the flow of 21st century wealth. From U.S. News and World Report’...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, September 18, 2015 (Maximpact News) – The greatest threat to the world’s oceans comes from human failure to deal quickly with the many problems that human activities have created in the marine environment, finds the first World Ocean Assessment written by a UN-convened group of experts. “Human impacts on the sea are no longer minor in relation to the overall scal...[Read More]

Monkey investigates plastic trash on the roof of a hut near the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, February 18, 2017 (Photo by Malcolm Payne) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis NEW DELHI, India, June 5, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – “Greetings on World Environment Day,” said India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. “Together, let us ensure that our future generations live in a clean and gree...[Read More]

by Tom Holland, CEO and founder of Maximpact.com Impact investing and the cleantech sector are both at a crossroads. For impact, the outlook is positive. We’re expanding, entering the mainstream and becoming a widely accepted approach to doing business and doing good. The recent Impact G8 in London is one measure of how far impact has come in just a few short years. The sector is growing at a fast...[Read More]

By Christopher Purdy Americans continue to be a most generous people, ranking Number 1 in the World Giving Index 2014, the only country to rank in the Top 10 for all three kinds of giving covered by the Index – helping a stranger (1st), volunteering time (5th) and donating money (9th). In 2014, Americans’ giving to charitable organizations exceeded $350 billion, according to Charity Navigator, equ...[Read More]

Kirigami cutting has produced skin that a robot can use to propel itself along. (Image by Ahmad Rafsanjani/Harvard SEAS) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 22, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Harvard researchers have developed a robot modeled on snakeskin with soft robotic scales made using kirigami – an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts to change the...[Read More]