by Dmitriy Ioselevich | Circular Economy, Global, Impact Economy, North America, Regions, Scaling Solutions, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 15 - Life on Land, SDGs, Stakeholder Capitalism, Systems Change, Tech for Social Good
Transcend is an Impact Entrepreneur nominee for the 2025 Earthshot Prize How does someone go from the #7 employee at Uber to a real estate developer to an entrepreneur revolutionizing the death care industry? That’s the story of Matthew Kochmann, founder of Transcend...
by Kim Venkataraman | Circular Economy, Impact Economy, Latin America, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy, Stakeholder Capitalism
While growing his Guatemalan solar company, Tono Aguilar realized that providing families in remote villages with electricity was only part of their challenge. “If you don’t have water or sanitation, and your walls are made of tin sheets, you’re still stuck in the...
by Luni Libes | Africa, Editor's Picks, Impact Economy, Impact Investing, Scaling Solutions, SDG 1 - No Poverty, SDG 15 - Life on Land, SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Millions of acres in Africa have been degraded by desertification, deforestation, intensive farming, and other human activities. Restoring that land to productive use and nature is a huge endeavor. Groups like AFR100 (the African Forest Landscape Restoration...