Month: September 2023

Maximpact is a global consulting group that focuses on sustainable community development and providing community solutions for global problems such as waste, water, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Our speciality services include providing community solutions, and capacity building, as well as training for refugees and migrants, including vocational language training and associated job plac...[Read More]

Mass coral bleaching at Pulau Semakau (East), with petrochemical plants on Pulau Bukom, Singapore, July 23, 2016. (Photo by Ria Tan / www.wildsingapore.com) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis BALI, Indonesia, March 2, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – “On bathroom shelves around the world sit products that are destroying life in our oceans. Tiny pieces of plastic in our face scrubs and t...[Read More]

By Katie Bessert, Maximpact guest blogger Today’s global water and sanitation crisis claims over 3 million lives every year according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the majority of these in communities at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid (BoP). Finding answers to this problem will require more than government funds and charitable donations. According to recent World Bank...[Read More]

LEED Platinum Certified airlines office building, Schiphol, Haarlemmermeer, North Holland, the Netherlands, November 2015 (Photo by Jeroen P.M. Meijer) Creative commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 22, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – “When you ask me, ‘what is a green building?’ I don’t have a very good answer,” confesses Josefina Lindblom, European Commission Policy Advi...[Read More]

Each dollar you save on your energy bill is another dollar on your bottom line. Except this dollar is a rather special dollar. First of all, it’s a dollar that did not require additional labour to produce or a new manufacturing plant to make. Statistically speaking 50% of your energy saving potential required little or no investment to achieve and will pay back the investment in less than one year...[Read More]

by Robert Rubinstein, Chairman & Founder of TBLI Group. I have had many conversations with private bankers who manage wealth portfolios, and they all lamented the difficulty of getting HNW clients interested in Impact Investing. They all recount to me the challenges they face in getting HNW clients to become interested in Impact Investing. I have heard this excuse hundreds of times. It is gett...[Read More]

A girl searches for recyclable materials in a garbage dump with smelly gases rising around her. Mandalay City, Myanmar, February 2009 (Photo by Nyaung U courtesy UN Development Programme Global Photo Contest in China) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis MANILA, Philippines, August 24, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Public-private partnerships have an important role to play in improving...[Read More]

by Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom Data is a hot topic in the worlds of government, business and philanthropy. As information technologies mature, the increased availability of data, coupled with advances in analysis, mean that many sectors are reaping the long-promised rewards; and feeling the pressure of a new age of data immersion. This data boom will affect the growing impact investment sector...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis SAN JOSE, California, August 31, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Smart bandages, soft robotics for the injured, wearable electronics and self-monitoring weapons systems are among the innovations expected from a new flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing institute to be created in Silicon Valley. After a nationwide bidding process, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter Friday announced the awar...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, August 25, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – To honor the anniversary of the National Park Service, 100 years old today, President Barack Obama has designated the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, the first national monument to preserve the landscape and honor the history and culture of Maine’s North Woods. The new National Monument takes in the East Branch of t...[Read More]

Mobile phones and other forms of mobile communication technology are making their mark on the developing world. The number of mobile subscriptions has grown to 6 billion, of which 5 billion are in developing countries, according to a World Bank report. More than 30 billion apps; pieces of software that extend the capabilities of phones were downloaded in 2011. It’s likely that record will be far s...[Read More]

By Ana LaRue The impact investing sector is evolving at lightning speed. It’s an exciting time for all of us, but keeping up with the pace of change can be challenging, even for enthusiasts. Thank heavens for Twitter. Like many media-savvy celebrities before them, the movers and shakers of impact investing are now communicating through tweets, making Twitter a great way to keep up with everything ...[Read More]