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By Sunny Lewis CYBERSPACE, March 10, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Billions of physical objects – devices, vehicles, buildings – embedded with electronics, software and sensors and connected to the Internet, are continuously and automatically collecting and exchanging information about human activities right now. It’s the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). Companies have a big appetite for this form...[Read More]

Just as an unhealthy lifestyle can lead to disease, so too can a poorly managed hospital lead to unhealthy outcomes. Leading a life and leading a hospital both have practical consequences and carry moral weight. Healthy Leadership gets to the heart of ethical leadership in healthcare management and describes a style of leadership that fosters healthy outcomes for hospitals, physicians, nurses, and...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich Water is a hot issue in investing circles these days. Once considered a free natural resource, water is increasingly a focus for finance and speculation; hardly surprising in a world where water stress is a reality, global demand for water is on the increase and investment in water-related infrastructure is urgently needed, according to sector-watchers such as the World Bank-spon...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich Water is a hot issue in investing circles these days. Once considered a free natural resource, water is increasingly a focus for finance and speculation; hardly surprising in a world where water stress is a reality, global demand for water is on the increase and investment in water-related infrastructure is urgently needed, according to sector-watchers such as the World Bank-spon...[Read More]

Some plastics are just lucky, they become the raw materials for artworks. (Photo by Steven Depolo) creative commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis, WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Every ton of plastic bottles recycled saves about 3.8 barrels of oil, says the Plastics Industry Trade Association, which has just launched a Zero Net Waste program to help members evaluate waste...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich Originally posted on the OpenForests blog. OpenForests is a consultancy specializing in sustainable forestry projects. So, you’ve written the business plan. Congratulations! (And thanks to OpenForests for their useful guide to writing a business plan for a sustainable forestry enterprise.) Now you’re ready to look past the trees and focus on the forest; the wide world of impact i...[Read More]

The *new* Living Product Challenge 1.1 contains seven performance categories, or Petals: Place, Water, Energy, Health and Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty. Petals are subdivided into a total of 20 Imperatives, each of which focuses on a specific sphere of influence.

Drawdown maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, we describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. The goal of the research that informs Drawdown is to determine if we can reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years. All solutions mod...[Read More]

The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is a daring call to action, exposing the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and groundbreaking information on what you can do now. Vice President Al Gore, a leading expert in climate change, combines cutting-edge research from top scientists around the wo...[Read More]

The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient… Read more → DRAWDOWN: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming edited by Paul Hawken… Read more → Your Guide to Healthier Products  What if products improved your quality of life and helped… Read more →

A crowd waits for a Bank of Africa branch to open in Madagascar, Oct 1, 2014 (Photo by Bruce Thomson) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis PARIS, France, February 21, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Nineteen global banks and investors, worth a total of US$6.6 trillion in assets, have agreed on a set of standards for financing sustainable development framed as the first-ever Principles fo...[Read More]

Dwellings on the banks of Samoa’s Vaisigano River are at risk during increasingly extreme storms. (Photo courtesy UN Development Programme) By Sunny Lewis SONGDO, South Korea, February 23, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Just three days before he left office on January 20, U.S. President Barack Obama transferred a second installment of US$500 million to the Green Climate Fund, based in South Korea’s S...[Read More]