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Refugee Camps Rely on Renewables

Members of a Syrian refugee family huddle around a stove inside their shelter in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. 2013 (Photo by A. McConnell courtesy UNHCR) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, January 9, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – In Iraq, displaced people struggle with the loss of electric power as blackouts and brownouts remain frequent even at grid-connected settleme...[Read More]

Earth Day 2022: Local Investments for Global Change

Inspired by the global Earth Day 2022 theme ‘Invest In Our Planet’, students at Tanzania’s oldest and premier public academic institution – the University of Dar es Salam – conducted a cleanup of the university’s ecological garden. April 12, 2022 (Photo courtesy EarthDay.org) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2022 (Maximpact.com News) – The environmental m...[Read More]

Ethical Travelers Shape World’s Largest Industry

Giant trees are just one of the many unique sights on the Atlantic island chain of Cabo Verde. (Photo by Frans Neve) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis BERKELEY, California, January 31, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Each year, Berkeley-based nonprofit Ethical Traveler searches the world to find the 10 most ethical destinations that beckon visitors with forward-thinking policies, exce...[Read More]

Faith in Finance

Buddhist statues Yangon, Myanmar, February 2015 (Photo by J. Durok) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis ZUG, Switzerland, October 27, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – First the numbers. Financial investors and leaders of more than 30 faith traditions representing over 500 faith investment groups from eight religions with some three trillion dollars in assets, will meet in Zug this month....[Read More]

Gold Rush Beneath the Deepest Sea

A crab defends its territory on a seamount in the North Atlantic. Seamounts host a very rich biodiversity, with corals, crustaceans, sponges and echinoderms among the most frequently found organisms. (Photo courtesy Mountains in the Sea Research Team, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 31, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – C...[Read More]

Institutional Cooking Stoves in Uganda

The Dissemination of Improved Institutional Cooking Stoves to Primary and Secondary Schools in Uganda The pupils of 600 schools need your help. See how a Ugandan cooking stove project intends to improve their lives.  Uganda, East Africa, February 2, 2018 – Part of the Maximpact mission includes assisting worthwhile projects to raise awareness. Today we would like to introduce one such project, ‘Th...[Read More]

Courageous Young People Battle Climate Change Crisis – Maximpact

A sign carried at the Illinois Youth Climate Strike expresses the fears of a generation. Chicago, Illinois, December 6, 2019 (Photo by Charles Edward Miller) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis NAIROBI, Kenya, December 10, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – As environmental disasters unfolded across the world in 2019, it is fearless children and young adults who have dared to speak out in ...[Read More]

Closing the Loop: Computers, Furniture, Footwear

OECD 2016 Forum: Lunch Debate: The Algorithmic Society, May 31, 2016, Paris, France (Photo by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Creative Commons license via Flickr BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 14, 2016 (Maximpact.com) – The European Commission has adopted a new set of ecological criteria for the award of EU Ecolabel status to makers of personal, notebook and tablet computers,...[Read More]

American Voters Fill Congress With Female Firsts

Elizabeth Cheney, Nanette Barragán, Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal. Images taken from their campaign sites. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, November 26, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Republican Donald Trump laid claim to the prize of President-elect earlier this month, accompanied by a Republican sweep of both Houses of Congress, so one might think the United States is united in its political will. N...[Read More]

Scientists Find 27 New Viruses in Bees

A bee in the Agapostemon group of Western Hemisphere sweat bees, most of which are known as metallic green sweat bees for their color. Lakewood, California, April 13, 2018 (Photo by tdlucas5000) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis                                                                                                                            UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, ...[Read More]

Resilient Infrastructure Investments Could Save Trillions

Chinese paramilitary policemen rescue elderly people trapped in their homes by flooding rains that left 112 dead and affected 16 million people near the Yangtze, China’s longest river. July 2016, Nanjing, China (Photo courtesy Sino-German Urbanisation Partnership) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, June 25, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – Investing in more resilient infrastructure in low- a...[Read More]

Countries Failing to Educate Girls Lose Trillions

Students in a second grade classroom at Nyamachaki Primary School, Nyeri County, Kenya, April 2017 (Photo by Kelley Lynch / Global Partnership for Education) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, July 25, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost countries between $15 trillion and $30 t...[Read More]

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