Month: January 2023

By Sunny Lewis CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 18, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Startup firms connected to their venture capitalists by direct airplane flights are more likely to succeed than other startups, concludes a new study of nearly 23,000 startups and more than 3,000 venture capital firms. Venture capitalists do help startup firms by closely monitoring their development in person, and th...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis VIENNA, Austria, September 20, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – “Citizen Science is one of the latest trends in science,” said the Medical University of Vienna late last month at the height of the pollen allergy season. The Austrian Pollen Monitoring service at MedUni Vienna’s Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases is founded upon active citizen participation and relies on continuin...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich The impact investing sector is developing at an amazing rate and so are the needs of impact funds, investors, advisors and companies. As we move rapidly beyond the early development stages, services are starting to emerge as an important theme for 2014. A recent article charted one aspect of the emerging trend. BCorp plan to use their data aggregation systems as a basis for provi...[Read More]

Children exposed to chlorpyrifos may develop autism, according to the petitioning groups. (Photo by hepingting) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reversed its decision to protect children from developmental disabilities and autism resulting from exposure to a neurotoxic pesticide that...[Read More]

Globally around 70% of all energy that is generated is used to power factories and buildings. However, around 60% of this energy is wasted due to inefficient systems. As the effects of climate change become more catastrophic, the pressure is on governments and industry to reduce their energy wastage in order to bring down carbon emissions. Already fifteen nations have declared the intention of rea...[Read More]

America’s most powerful wind farm – 1.5 gigawatts in size, generating enough electricity for a city of millions – is on the edge of the Mojave Desert at the foot of the Tehachapi Pass, site of one of the earliest and still largest collections of windmills in the world. In total, there are more than 5,000 wind turbines in the area. (Photo by Steve Boland) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunn...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis AMES, Iowa, February 23, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – The combination of skillful marketing and corporate social responsibility can yield a 3.5 percent gain in stock returns for a company’s shareholders, a new study by U.S. and Canadian researchers shows. The study is useful because regardless of the positive effects for society of corporate social responsibility (CSR), there remains...[Read More]

If you are in the midst of launching your own business or if you are currently in business, you are likely wondering if your enterprise is investor-ready. “Investor readiness” hinges on a variety of factors. Simply preparing a strategic business plan and financials is not an indication that your business is ready to take on an outside investment. Even if you are eager for an outside investment, th...[Read More]

Dwellings on the banks of Samoa’s Vaisigano River are at risk during increasingly extreme storms. (Photo courtesy UN Development Programme) By Sunny Lewis SONGDO, South Korea, February 23, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Just three days before he left office on January 20, U.S. President Barack Obama transferred a second installment of US$500 million to the Green Climate Fund, based in South Korea’s S...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis RESTON, Virginia, August 29, 2015 (Maximpact News) – More than 1,200 hospitals and health centers in 13 countries are pledging to take meaningful action on climate change in a worldwide campaign to mobilize the health care sector ahead of the United Nations conference on climate change this December in Paris. There, governments around the world are expected to adopt a universal, leg...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact CAMBRIDGE, UK, February 3, 2021 (Maximpact.com News) – Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others improves their creativity and can deepen their general engagement with learning, finds new research from the University of Cambridge. The findings are from a year-long University of Cambridge study with Design and Technology students, ages 13 ...[Read More]

Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He interviewed Dr. Piers Sellers, right, an Earth scientist, former astronaut and current deputy director of Goddard’s Sciences and Exploration Directorate. They discussed the different missions NASA has underway to study changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, wat...[Read More]