Month: September 2023

By Marta Maretich @mmmaretich @maximpactdotcom Twitter is hot in the impact investing sector. The overwhelming reaction to our post on the 30 must-follow twitter feeds for impact investing demonstrated once again that the impact world relies on Twitter to keep in touch. (To those of you who sent in your recommendations, thank you! A follow-up post is in the works.) Using #hashtags (the metatags th...[Read More]

Gardens by the Bay, Singapore (Photo by Jean Baptiste Roux) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis  SINGAPORE, August 3, 2016 (Maximpact.com News ) – Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose city is the greenest of them all? The mirror held up by the corporate strategy consulting firm Solidiance reflects the answer in a new report  that compares the performance of 10 global cities and their g...[Read More]

‘Jaipur cows eating trash’ Creative Commons license via Wikimedia Commons To manage waste in an effective way appears to be one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and the planet. The ongoing trend of industrialization and economic growth have resulted in increased municipal solid waste especially in cities with high population. With recent estimates putting the global waste production from...[Read More]

A variety of pharmaceuticals, September 25, 2019 (Photo by Marco Verch) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact DUBENDORF, Switzerland, April 2, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – A single pharmaceutical manufacturing facility is changing the water quality of one of Europe’s most important rivers, the Rhine, Swiss researchers report. Compounds in the water may be biologically act...[Read More]

Capacity building and NGO’s external benefits (accountability to donors and local communities) For many years now, NGO sector has been acting as an agent of change empowering and fostering local communities towards sustainable socio-economic development. NGO programs that focus on peace building, democratic governance, human rights as well as fighting poverty and inequality are implemented around ...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis                                                                      Follow us at: @Maximpactdotcom LONDON, UK, May 5, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Half the world’s 500 largest investors are acting to lessen the risks posed to their portfolios by climate change, but the other half are ignoring climate risk entirely, finds the latest Global Climate 500 Index. The fourth annual benchma...[Read More]

Clean, clear waterfall at McArthur-Burney Falls State Park, California, USA (Photo by Sathish J) Creative commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact on wastewater BERKELEY, California, December 7, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – A new nanomaterial called ZIOS can selectively target and trap copper ions from wastewater with unprecedented precision and speed. ZIOS offers the water industry ...[Read More]

To continue educating our community about renewable energy, we’re sharing this infographic about How Wind Turbines Work from SaveOnEnergy. Wind energy can be used to power everything from neighborhoods to telecom towers, and it has countless benefits. Wind energy produces much less pollution than traditional, nonrenewable resources, and the development of wind energy is creating new jobs across th...[Read More]

A few of the innovative towers of Songdo, South Korea around Songdo Central Park. May 20, 2019 (Photo by Jaehyuk Lee) Creative commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis SONGDO, South Korea, October 24, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – On a stretch of land along the Incheon city waterfront reclaimed from the Yellow Sea, lies the brand new Songdo International Business District. But Songdo is more than j...[Read More]

“Now, after considering about a million different quinones, we have developed a new class of battery electrolyte material that expands the possibilities of what we can do,” said Kaixiang Lin, a Ph.D. student in chemistry at Harvard and first author of the paper.  That advance was a game-changer, and the Harvard team now is delivering what they call “the first high-performance, non-flammable, non-t...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom We all like to talk about how the social, responsible and impact (SRI) investing sector is growing—and current research indicates that it is flourishing, with more capital and a wider range of investors now entering the field. All that is good—and it’s what we’ve all be working for. Yet if there’s one thing experience has taught us about deploying the new market ...[Read More]

by Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, April 19, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Celebrated on Sunday, April 22, this year’s Earth Day theme is End Plastic Pollution. Poisoning marine life, disrupting human hormones, littering beaches, clogging waste streams and landfills – waste plastics threaten to overwhelm the planet. In response, Earth Day 2018 is focusing on fundamentally changing human attitudes and be...[Read More]