Month: September 2023

Thousands gathered in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for an Indigenous-led “Protect the Inlet” mass mobilization against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, dozens were arrested. March 10, 2018. (Photo by Zack Embree) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, April 12, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – UN Environment is making a stand against the...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @mmmaretich @maximpactdotcom The world is crying out for education. For 4,738,116 respondents to the My World digital survey (and counting) “a good education” is, is the overwhelming choice for every age group and every sector for the change that “would make the most difference” to their lives. The role of education in improving the people’s lives and encouraging economic develop...[Read More]

High school student Gabriella Swan has everything she needs to study at home. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 8, 2020 (Photo by Michael Swan) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact WASHINGTON, DC, April 9, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – “I wish I could make it easier for everyone, I wish I could eliminate the frustration everyone feels,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown said on We...[Read More]

Delegates at the opening session of the 2018 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, UN Headquarters, New York, July 9, 2018 (Photo by Kiara Worth courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Used with permission. By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, July 10, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – “It is literally the truth, that sustainable development is the path to happiness,” Professor Jeffrey Sach...[Read More]

WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – As Earth Day approaches its 50th anniversary in 2020, the Earth Day Network has set five major goals. Planting trees is the first; this year volunteers throughout the world plan to plant 7.8 billion trees. The Earth Day Network’s 2016 Trees for the Earth campaign will focus on regions of the world most affected by deforestation. To achieve its ...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact Conference on inclusion and diversity in student mobility, October 3, 2022, Brussels, Belgium (Photo by Erasmus Student Network International, a nonprofit student organisation, one of Europe’s largest) Creative Commons via Flickr BONN, Germany, October 23, 2022 – Meetings, gatherings, conferences, summits, festivals, forums, caucuses, councils – large and small, events...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom What goes around and around and comes out better for the planet? By now, most of you will guess that the answer is the circular economy. But what is the circular economy? It’s an approach to manufacturing based on the principles of reuse, repair, remanufacture and recycle. The point is to preserve finite resources, such as fossil fuels, which are running out. At ...[Read More]

Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image was taken July 6, 2017 from a vantage point one million miles from Earth. (Photo courtesy NASA) Public domain By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April 16, 2020 (EcologyPrime News) – The biggest climate conference of the year will be the Earth Day...[Read More]

by Michael Volkmann TEXAS, United States, March 12, 2018  In the internet age, a business is only as good as its website. Most business these days occurs on the internet via internet traffic that is generated through ad campaigns and other forms of digital marketing. It is incredibly important for businesses of all sizes to engage the online community actively and persistently. Inconsistent activi...[Read More]

Polar bears on thin ice near the North Pole, June 30, 2015 (Photo by Christopher Michel) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis HELSINKI, Finland, June 7, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – The African lion faces extinction by the year 2050, wildlife experts project, at risk due to indiscriminate killing in defense of human life and livestock, habitat loss, and prey base depletion from poachi...[Read More]

A “poo-powered” Fair Oaks bus rolls through a barn where cows munch grass and provide the poo that becomes renewable natural gas. (Photo courtesy Fair Oaks Farms) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, May 22, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Wet organic wastes are mucky: livestock manure; sludge from wastewater treatment; inedible fats, oils, and greases from commercial and industrial foo...[Read More]

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has plenty in common with impact investing. (See The Impact Investing-CSR Opportunity for more) Now CSRHub, a tool that provides CSR sustainability ratings for companies, is listed on Maximpact in a bid to attract the funds it needs to grow to scale. MEETING THE DEMAND FOR RELIABLE CSR INFORMATION Founders Cynthia Figge, Bahar Gidwani and Stephen Filler identi...[Read More]