Funding Water and Sanitation Business at the Bottom of the Pyramid
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]
Building in Many Shades of Green
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]
Your business could be paying 40% more for its energy than it needs too.
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]
Impact Investing Offers Opportunity to Wealth Managers
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]
Public-Private Solutions for Asia’s Waste Crisis
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]
DATA FOR IMPACT
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]
Pentagon Awards New Flexible Hybrid Electronics Hub to Silicon Valley
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]
At Age 100, U.S. National Park System Grows By Donation
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 TECH COMMUNICATES IMPACT
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]
30 Must-Follow Twitter Feeds for Impact Investing
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]
Healing the Plastic-Sick Seas
The Ocean Cleanup system, the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers, is 100 percent solar-powered, extracts plastic autonomously, and can be placed in the majority of the world’s most polluting rivers. Here it is shown on Malaysia’s Klang River. (Photo courtesy The Ocean Cleanup) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis LONDON, UK, November 26, 2019 (Ma...[Read More]
Solar Power Comes of Age Across the World
Contracted workers clean heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Project, a concentrating solar power facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Over 300,000 software-controlled mirrors track the sun in two dimensions and reflect the sunlight to boilers that sit atop three 459 foot tall power towers. July 26, 2017, Nipton, California. (Photo courtesy National Renewable Energy Lab) Public domain By Sunny Lewi...[Read More]