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 ...

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 ...

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On a commercial corridor northeast of downtown Philadelphia, a diner, a hair-braiding shop and a photography studio, along with murals and a community garden, are tangible markers of a neighborhood ...

Climate-induced economic damages ticked down slightly last year from 2024’s record $1.4 trillion, as fewer major hurricanes made landfall. Notwithstanding that minor blip, the cascading effects of ...

ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Good jobs. Oro raised $3 million to bring homeownership and housing benefits to the workplace. Investing in health. SJF Ventures, Gratitude Railroad and ...

African pension funds and other institutional investors are slowly recognizing the need, and opportunity, of playing an active role in building the continent’s economic engine: small businesses. A ...

The Boston Impact Initiative closed its second fund at $22 million, surpassing its $20 million target, to invest in New England based small businesses and non-profits. The community development ...

The practice of impact measurement and management is important to the impact investment field, yet it is inherently difficult and complex. While all impact investors can tap a growing and helpful body ...

As artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, the benefits of its productivity gains are predominantly flowing to a small group of wealthy owners and investors. Workers, meanwhile, bear the costs ...

Artisan Tropic has since 2014 worked with Colombian regenerative cassava and plantain farmers for its line of snack foods. The company sells about $9 million worth of its products each year in ...

Guidon, a sustainable architecture and engineering firm based in downtown Indianapolis, has become the first employee-owned trusts in Indiana. The trust, structured by Common Trust, ensures that ...