Month: September 2023

IRENA Director General Francesco La Camera speaks at The World Future Energy Summit, January 16, 2020, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi (Photo courtesy IRENA) Creative Commons license via Flickr ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, July 16, 2021 (Maximpact.com News) – “We have no time. The window is closing and the pathway to a net-zero future is narrowing.” With these warning words, Francesco La Camera, who he...[Read More]

Brian Krzanich, CEO, Intel, on Centre Stage during the opening day of Web Summit 2017 at Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Web Summit via Sportsfile) Creative Commons License via flickr By Sunny Lewis BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 30, 2018 (Maximpact.com  News) – The largest and most influential publicly traded companies in the United States are stepping forward in greate...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 12, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) “A circular economy is one that is restorative and regenerative by design,” says Dame Ellen MacArthur. She has taken a special interest in circular systems. Four years after becoming the fastest solo sailor to circumnavigate the globe, a 2005 record that still stands, MacArthur founded the UK charity that bears her name ...[Read More]

Soldiers from the California Army National Guard conduct search and debris clearing operations in Paradise, California, a town leveled by wildfire in November 2018. (Photo by Senior Airman Crystal Housman / U.S. Air National Guard) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, November 27, 2018 (Maximpact.com ) – “Earth’s climate is changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civili...[Read More]

Woman collects drinking water from a stream in Uganda, June 2015 (Photo by CAFOD) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis DAR es SALAAM, Tanzania, August 1, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Determination to find lasting solutions to Africa’a age-old water and sanitation problems characterized the mood of delegates to the 6th Africa Water Week conference in Dar es Salam last week. Organized b...[Read More]

Syrian refugee girls who wait until after they are 18 to be married sometimes get to go to school. These girls are listening to a Turkish lesson in an Accelerated Learning Programme classroom in Haliliye Public Education Centre supported by European Union funding. September 26, 2018 (Photo by EU Civil Protections and Humanitarian Aid Operation) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis AN...[Read More]

Artisinal miners in Zimbabwe endure punishing conditions in search of the precious stones. (Photo courtesy Zimbabweland) Posted for media use NEW YORK, New York, September 12, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – When it comes to gifts, it is said that the best things come in small packages, often in small turquoise packages from Tiffany & Co., the world-famous 180-year-old New York luxury jeweler. In ...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis  PARIS, France, June 2, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – OECD Countries should modernize their consumer protection laws to address new risks posed by online commerce, including “free” apps and peer-to-peer Internet transactions, according to new OECD guidelines for member countries and emerging economies in a new Recommendation. While not legally binding, it puts peer pressure on countri...[Read More]

 Today, a skilled workforce is an organisation’s greatest asset. This means that it is in the best interests of every business to regularly upskill their staff. There are no shortages of advanced courses, night classes and workshops that specialise in almost any topic you can think of. But the demands of career, personal commitments and healthy living means that few professionals have the time or ...[Read More]

British Columbia Premier John Horgan tours one of Europe’s zero-emission buildings, the Siemens Crystal Building on London’s Royal Victoria Docks. The Crystal is an all-electric building that uses solar power and a ground source heat pump to generate its own energy. It showcases state-of-the-art technologies to make buildings more efficient, incorporates rainwater harvesting, black water treatment...[Read More]

Syrian adolescent girls use a smartphone outside a technology lab in Damietta Governorate, Egypt. (Photo by Shehzad Noorani / UNICEF) Posted for media use WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2021 (Maximpact.com News) – Distance learning has become routine for many students during the COVID-19 lockdown, but for thousands of young Syrians living in refugee camps distance learning has been an impossible lux...[Read More]