Monitoring for Social Enterprises: How to Protect Mission and Deliver Profit
By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom A growing body of sector research is shining light on the principles of how social enterprises can use outcome monitoring to strengthen mission and deliver a blended bottom line. Up until now, the commitment to measuring and reporting outcomes has been one of the things that distinguished social investing from mainstream investing. Today, that’s changing. Increas...[Read More]
15 Cities Each Win a Million in Sustainability Global Mayors
Life in the streets of Kigali, Rwanda’s Gikondo neighborhood, October 2021, (Photo by Flash Kigali) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact Sustainability NEW YORK, New York, January 19, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the 15 winning cities of the 2021-2022 Global Mayors Challenge https://bloombergcities.jhu.edu/mayors-challenge, a worl...[Read More]
Fleeing for Their Lives, Ukrainians Become Refugees
People wait to cross from pro-Russian separatists’ controlled territory to Ukrainian government controlled areas in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, February 22, 2022. (Photo by Voice of America) Public domain By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact KYIV, Ukraine, March 3, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – As Russia’s assault on Ukraine ...[Read More]
Quantum Dots Turn Windows Into Solar Generators
By Sunny Lewis LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, February 27, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Imagine double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with great efficiency and create shade and insulation at the same time. These windows can turn entire skyscrapers into solar energy generators. And these windows have become a reality! After years of research, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are n...[Read More]
TEENAGE ASYLUM SEEKERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND SCORE TOP GCSE
NORTHERN IRELAND, August 31, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) Three Bedouin sisters from Kuwait are among a group of 16 asylum seekers who have scored highly in their GESEs despite many of them only starting to learn English at the start of this year. The group of students aged between 15 and 18 (were not in school) were being taught English by Maximpact. The two of the 3 sisters will atte...[Read More]
Plastic Medical Waste Floods the Planet
Dropping ramp to dump garbage and trash directly into en:Huallaga River in Peru. By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, February 16, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Medical waste from the coronavirus pandemic is accumulating around the world, threatening human and environmental health, revealing the need to improve waste management, and accelerating planning for a global trea...[Read More]
PORTADOWN HAIR ACADEMY CROWNS SYRIAN REFUGEE
PORTADOWN HAIR ACADEMY CROWNS SYRIAN REFUGEE Maximpact Press Release, 08 August 2022 A young refugee woman from northern Syria has become Portadown’s first Kurdish graduate after passing her professional exams in the town’s Hair and Beauty Academy. Sarah Alou, 24, arrived in Northern Ireland from war-torn Syria with her parents and brothers in 2017 after spending years in refugee camps in Turkey. ...[Read More]
Two Experiments With a Car-free Future
Kaohsiung light rail service at Kaisyuan Rueitian Station, Nov. 9, 2014 (Photo by billy1125) LAUSANNE, Switzerland, October 5, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Imagine you live in a society that has opted to live without cars, not for environmental reasons or due to a fuel shortage but simply out of choice. PostCarWorld, a study into the role of cars in Swiss society, found that Swiss people could be ...[Read More]
Discover the World of Sustainable Hospitality
World Tourism Organization Secretary-General Taleb Rifai (third from left) at the opening session of World Tourism Day in Doha, Qatar, September 27, 2017 (Photo courtesy World Tourism Organization) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis LONDON, UK, October 3, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – A one-month worldwide trip visiting sustainable tourism initiatives is the prize that will go to the winner of a n...[Read More]
Bees With Backpacks
A researcher from Vale Institute of Technology tags one of the sensor-carrying honey bees. Brazil, 2017 (Screen grab from video by Vale Institute of Technology) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis SYDNEY, Australia, March 15, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Thousands of honey bees are flying around Australia and Brazil with mini sensors on their backs as part of a world-first research program to moni...[Read More]
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Glitters in the Sun
The International Renewable Energy Agency exhibit at the World Future Energy Summit 2017, a part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, January 16, 2017 (Photo courtesy IRENA) Creative Commons license via Flickr. By Sunny Lewis ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, January 19, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – The oil-rich Middle East’s largest gathering on sustainability is happening this week, featuring the roc...[Read More]
Solar, Wind Power Create Hotter, Greener Deserts
Morocco’s Noor-Ouarzazate Solar complex hosts the launch of the World Bank Middle East and North Africa Concentrated Solar Power Knowledge and Innovation Program. March 8, 2017 (Photo by Michael Taylor / IRENA) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, September 6, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat and humidity in...[Read More]