Month: September 2023

Crowd in Hong Kong, July 1, 2014 (Photo by doctorho) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis CAIRNS, Australia, August 30, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – A global expert on infrastructure warns that China’s plan to string massive transportation and energy projects halfway around the Earth is “environmentally the riskiest venture ever undertaken.” China’s President Xi Jinping at the 10th BR...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom Sun energy has enjoyed favored status with governments and investors for years. Today however prices for solar products are falling and capital is harder to come by, encouraging many solar companies to change strategy and seek finance from new sources; notably from impact investors. Maximpact has always hosted a wide variety of solar deals. Today’s deals reflect ...[Read More]

Solar Power Plant Surallah/Philippines (PresseBox) nv vogt Philippines Solar Energy One, Inc. inaugurated the Surallah solar power plant in Mindanao/Philippines last Saturday. The plant with a capacity of 6.23 MWp was commissioned in November 2015 and is the largest one operating in Mindanao to date. The project was developed by nv vogt and its joint venture partner ib vogt GmbH, based in Berlin/G...[Read More]

MAXIMPACT BLOG November 17, 2016 Maximpact.com Whether you are a consulting company, an NGO or other business organization, at some point you may be faced with the task of building a project team, or finding consultants for that team. These days it is a well-known fact that the success of a project depends on it’s team members. Without the right expertise involved and full cooperation of the team,...[Read More]

Volunteer Rich Kuhlman participates in tree planting at a stream restored by South River Federation in Annapolis, Maryland. Oct. 28, 2017 (Photo by Will Parson / Chesapeake Bay Program) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis ROME, Italy, March 8, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Reporting on the status and trends of the world’s forest resources just got easier with a new online tool linked ...[Read More]

Children and adults crowd onto the benches at Bambasi Refugee camp primary school in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia. February 6, 2019 (Photo by UNICEF Ethiopia) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK,New York, April 11, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – Far from acting like the high-hat, hard-hearted corporations often mocked in the media, many companies are offering to su...[Read More]

Shrilk, a biodegrable plastic made from silk and shrimp shells, is similar in strength and toughness to an aluminum alloy, but only half the weight. (Photo courtesy Wyss Institute) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 22, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – As all grocery shoppers know, many meats, breads, cheeses, cakes and cookies come wrapped in plastic packaging to prev...[Read More]

Dr. Bruce Rittmann and Dr. Mark van Loosdrecht have been awarded the 2018 Stockholm Water Prize for revolutionizing water and wastewater treatment. March 22, 2018 (Photo courtesy Swette Center of Environmental Biotechnology at Arizona State University) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, March 23, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – “Quite simply, water is a matter of life and death. O...[Read More]

by Anna Kucirkova August 2,2018 originally published (Industrial Ovens) – Scientists have predicted that the maximum number of people the Earth can sustain is somewhere between nine and ten billion. Current population is estimated to hit nine billion by the year 2050. So humans have roughly 32 years before overpopulation becomes a really, really big problem. But, where else can we go? People aroun...[Read More]

RockTenn, based in Norcross, Georgia, one of North America’s leading manufacturers of corrugated and consumer packaging, has been focused on reducing the amount of solid waste it sends to landfills. By engaging employees from every department, such as finishing inspector Byron Manning, at one of the company’s packaging factories, RockTenn recycles much of its process waste. (Photo courtesy RockTen...[Read More]

By guest contributor Harald Walkate, Head of Responsible Investment at Aegon Asset Management Harald Walkate is Head of Responsible Investing at Aegon Asset Management In the last few years, great progress has been made in the area of impact investment. At first the exclusive domain of foundations, family offices and SRI-driven investors, it is now gaining recognition in mainstream finance as a to...[Read More]

“Some people believe that words like technology, design and creativity belong to the big cities and that big problems should be solved by big companies in big offices. We as a small island have decided to prove them wrong: Innovation, solutions and development can take place anywhere at anytime by anyone.” Bornholm Bornholm is the first place in Denmark that sees the sunrise; this leap ahead symbo...[Read More]