Influencers to Watch

Satya Tripathi wants you to see the Earth as a jigsaw puzzle. Not one where you have to put the pieces together to get the real picture, but one in which the puzzle is being dismantled before your eyes. "Take a jigsaw...

Ansa, a startup company that provides fintech infrastructure which enables merchants to launch branded customer wallets, has secured a $14 million Series A funding round, the company announced this week. The round was led by Renegade Partners with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, B37 Ventures, Box Group and Wischoff...

Despite slowing growth rates and skepticism among many U.S. investors, ESG assets worldwide have already surpassed $30 trillion and are on track to reach $40 trillion by 2030, Bloomberg Intelligence ESG data show. "ESG has had a tough few years, but we see...

Jacob A. Waddingham, Jeff Chandler and Marcus Wolfe The next time you’re searching through Airbnb listings, you may find there’s more to consider than just amenities and price. To stand out from the competition, some Airbnb hosts tout their personal values –...

Yvette Cabrera Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the soil of urban centers across the United States. One in every two American children under the age of...

Last week, in Part 1 of our conversation with Kristin Hull, she shared her origin story and told us about the work that Nia Impact Capital does. Today, in Part 2, we dive in deeper and explore some of the challenges that...

More than 100 University of Chicago alumni are demanding the school's endowment divest itself of fossil-fuel interests and say they will refuse to donate to the university until all fossil-fuel allocations are eliminated. The alumni movement is spearheaded by UChicago for Climate...

The Sustainable Finance Podcast is a weekly program featuring conversations with sustainability thought leaders such as cleantech entrepreneurs, VC investors, CEOs, NGO executives, and creators of the ESG indices and analytics platforms. Episode 253: Making sustainability profitable with AI Tee Ganbold is co-founder...

Changing consumer behavior has called upon corporations to put environmental, social and governance issues at the forefront of their business strategies. However, more importantly, internal diversity efforts have helped improve the process in which employees perceive a company’s ESG-focused strategies, furthering the...

Earth Day has been with us since 1970. Now it is global, and, boy, how things have changed. I remember in the mid 1990s, things were very different. Back in those days, I was involved with politics in the era of President...