In Ethiopia, five-year old startup Kubik is converting up to 45 tons of hard-to-recycle plastics daily into affordable green building materials such as rubber bricks, beams and columns. It has raised ...

Dealflow: Energy Transition Generate Capital finances green steel, with co-investment from CalSTRS and HESTA. Sustainable infrastructure investor Generate Capital extended a $200 million secured loan ...

Slowly, then all at once. The adage sums up the feeling of late that artificial intelligence, under development for years, is suddenly on the verge of disrupting every facet of life. That is putting ...

With the introduction of the Employee Ownership Development Act , Illinois is poised to create the largest dedicated public investment vehicle for employee ownership in the country. State Rep. Will ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul of federal student loan borrowing is starting to push more higher education borrowers into the hands of private lenders, where loans can be costlier and ...

Agrifood tech. Waterpoint Lane made the investment via its $6 million food and agriculture sustainability fund, which writes early-stage checks of around $250,000 (see, “Sustainable food and ag ...

This two-day convening will bring together leaders of purpose trust and employee ownership trust (EOT) companies, along with the professionals, investors, funders, policymakers, and academics who ...

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With the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, ImpactAlpha is lifting up investment strategies that are expanding opportunity in today’s complex environment. The idea that a private equity firm would buy out a ...

While career offices and impact clubs host panels that draw hundreds of MBA students, there has historically been little data on how many impact investing jobs are out there, or who ends up working ...

Off-grid energy systems and products have connected over 560 million people to clean and more reliable sources of power. One of the key drivers of that access is credit, which about 40% of off-grid ...

Surrounded by public housing projects on a block of East Harlem between 111th and 112th streets, sits a big new apartment complex with a facade that screams luxury. But behind its sleek exterior is a ...