How place-based capital is expanding housing stability and ownership
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How Ziggma is trying to make values-aligned investing more transparent
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Why education pilots need government adoption, not just proof
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Lessons from Atlanta’s BeltLine and Pittsburgh Yards
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Jeremy Nicholls on building an accounting system fit for the impact economy
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How portfolio theory could make cultural infrastructure more investable
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Note that this webinar is scheduled for a Wednesday, not our usual Thursday slots.
Investing for Climate Impact through Food Waste Solutions
Despite the fact that real progress has been made over the past two decades, it’s now abundantly clear that the climate crisis is no longer a future concern. It’s happening now, and we must act more boldly to address it by investing in for-profit and nonprofit enterprises that offer immediate, rapid, and large-scale solutions to climate change – like food waste reduction. In the United States alone, an estimated 35% of all food ends up uneaten annually, producing more greenhouse gas emissions than 42 coal-fired power plants. Uneaten food is the number one product entering landfills, where it decomposes and generates methane, an anthropogenic greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The good news? The problem of food waste is eminently solvable – it’s literally low-hanging fruit. Food waste reduction solutions already exist, and many of them are “shovel-ready,” just needing implementation rather than invention to reap big benefits. And by preventing food waste from going to landfill – through prevention and diversion – we can reduce atmospheric methane concentrations in just a decade or two, which is critical for limiting warming by 2050.
Join Impact Entrepreneur for a Building an Impact Economy webinar, co-hosted by ReFED, a nonprofit working to reduce food loss and waste in the U.S. food system. We’ll explore the connection between food waste and the climate, present a range of solutions for fighting it – from breakthrough innovations to basic best practices – and share opportunities for you to support the effort right now.
Laurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, PBC, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs, investors, and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and editor and publisher of Impact Entrepreneur, a digital magazine covering the emerging Impact Economy. For over 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact — having worked with such acclaimed authors as Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, and David James Duncan — and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing. Laurie is contributing author to the academic textbook from World Scientific, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications. His new book, The Impact Entrepreneur Breakthrough: A Field Manual for the Regenerative Economy, will be pubished by Berrett-Koehler in 2026, with global distribution by Penguin Random House.
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