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Morningstar Head of Sustainability Steven Smit (right with glasses) and Morningstar Chairman and CEO Joe Mansueto. (Screengrab from video courtesy Morningstar) By Sunny Lewis, CHICAGO, Illinois, March 3, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Evaluating mutual funds and exchange-traded funds based on how well the companies they hold manage their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and opportuni...[Read More]

Celebrating the adoption of the Paris Agreement, from left, then UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), President François Hollande of France, December 12, 2015. (Photo courtesy UNFCCC) posted for media use. By Sunny Lewis, NEW YORK, New York, Octobe...[Read More]

Boston’s Atlantic Wharf (tallest building, center) is the city’s first LEED platinum skyscraper with offices, retail and residential lofts on Boston’s waterfront. LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a national certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council to encourage the construction of energy and resource-efficient buildings. Platinum is the highest LEED r...[Read More]

Artist’s rendering of the 3.2GW Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant located in Somerset, England. (Image courtesy UK Government as published by “Power Technology“) By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact PARIS, France, March 5, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – French electric utility giant EDF, largely owned by the French state, is planning for large-scale production of hydrogen to be powered by its fleet of UK n...[Read More]

Shrin Ali, left, and Aisha Bakkar, right, both resettled from Syria in Northern Ireland, at Warrenpoint Municipal Park, County Down, Northern Ireland, December 2020 (Photo by Brian McAlinden) If anyone told me a year ago that everybody will be locked down in his house, and we will see the biggest cities in the world empty and look like ghost towns, I would have told him that he is crazy!!! However...[Read More]

Sea Shepherd crew, left, confronts Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean during the group’s Operation Leviathan 2006-2007. (Photo courtesy Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis BURBANK, California, January 18, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – The Japanese whaling fleet is killing minke whales  in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica right now without opposition for the...[Read More]

Bioplastic bottles can be transformed into the environmentally-friendly solvent methyl lactate. (Photo courtesy The Dieline) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact LONDON, UK, June 10, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – New technologies are breaking through the barriers to a circular economy that would consign enormous landfills and incinerators to the dustbin of history. Waste has become a re...[Read More]

Many U.S. citizens do not support the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Here, members of the nonprofit Unitarian Universalist Service Committee partnered with Lights for Liberty and other human rights organizations to protest the detention centers holding and separating migrant families at the U.S. southern border. June 12, 2019, Boston, Massachusetts (Photo by Hannah Hafter) creative C...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich, Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom We were waiting for it. Now, at last, it’s here. The report of the Social Impact Investment G8 Taskforce hit the media on September 15 provoking a small flood of news stories and reaction pieces from governments, development agencies and third-sector bodies. At 51 pages not including the eight individual country reports, The Invisible Heart of Marke...[Read More]

Aguas Andinas, Chile’s largest water utility company, is making Santiago’s three wastewater treatment plants into “biofactories” that convert wastewater and sewer sludge into clean energy. All three treatment plants will be zero waste, energy self-sufficient, and carbon neutral by 2022. (Photo courtesy Aguas Andinas) By Sunny Lewis BONN, Germany, November 13, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – From a mob...[Read More]

Scientists John Geisz, left, and Ryan France at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory have created a solar cell that is nearly 50 percent efficient. 2020 (Photo by Dennis Schroeder courtesy NREL) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact Community Solutions GOLDEN, Colorado, June 12, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – A new kind of solar cell has captured the world record for the highest ...[Read More]

EcoBasalt and MetalloTek are two companies giving cleantech a new polish. Both young companies use high tech materials to create products that clean the planet; and both are seeking investment on Maximpact.com. EcoBasalt Ltd develops sustainable nanomaterials from natural, inorganic basalt (volcanic) rock fibers. After years of research, the founders have come up with a unique process that produce...[Read More]