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Huge shout out to The Nevada Independent and Dr. Monica Arienzo, a researcher at the Desert Research Institute, and author Daniel Rothberg for highlighting this incredibly important story that follows. Reprinted here [...]

Macro, Micro, Marble It’s grim: Dead marine animals found with plastic waste stuffing their stomachs and throats. Others entangled in plastic. Oceana’s new study describes nearly 1,800 such cases found along coasts i [...]

“Just Say No!” to Plastics Let’s face it: We’re addicted to plastic. The ease of packaging and other uses keeps us blind to the devastating effects plastic pollution is having on the environment – including our bodie [...]

How Many Pounds of Clothes Do We Need? In 1990, we each owned about 17 pounds of clothes. By 2016, we owned on average more than 57 pounds each. And, when you think about how little some people on this planet own, so [...]

Sardines Packed with Plastic? Did you know your smelly-but-delicious serving of sardines might contain actual plastic that worked its way up the food chain? New research found microplastics in several types of seafoo [...]

Plastics are a key element in the personal protective equipment (PPE) protecting health care providers and patients alike during the COVID-19 epidemic. The rest of us are also using PPE as we wear masks and gloves in [...]

Monday marks World Oceans Day, recognized by the United Nations since 2008. Thousands of organizations and companies worldwide are celebrating World Oceans Week under this year’s banner, “Innovation for a sustainable [...]

The importance of impact investing is underscored by both growing needs and good returns during these early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Marisa Drew, CEO of the Credit Suisse Impact Advisory and Finance Depart [...]

Plastic pollution – most of it from our clothing and fabrics, surprisingly, and some of it decades old – is piling up in biodiversity hotspots in the ocean, new research shows. Once microplastics fall to the ocean fl [...]

The fashion industry is a real water-guzzling force that annually consumes some 79 billion cubic meters of water – enough to fill 32 million Olympic swimming pools. And that number is expected to increase by 50 perce [...]

Dire economic threats in the Covid-19 pandemic are heightened in developing countries. Given that much impact investing focuses there, we at DGI are wondering how #impinv leaders are responding. A recent interview in [...]

Decades of work to ban single-use plastic bags at checkout counters are being upended almost overnight because of potential coronavirus contagion risks. It seems necessary in the short-term, but we hope the movement [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, it’s difficult to think about anything else – but we must. When the virus is contained, herd immunity reached, medications and a vaccine developed, we’ll still be face-to-face with t [...]

As the COVID-19 pandemic explodes across the globe, every entrepreneur is affected, including social entrepreneurs. This group, comprised of individuals, organizations and companies that pursue new ways to solve comm [...]

Here we are, called as individuals, as businesses and as a nation to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The reporters and editors at Inc. magazine website are doing a nice job of updating small business owners on resou [...]

The world has changed almost overnight. More than ever, washing our hands is one of the day’s most important rituals, repeated over and over. Gratitude for clean water is also part of that ritual, for those of us luc [...]

No matter what we do about fracking – increase it, limit it or stop it – we’re going to have to clean the wastewater already created in the process. The need is clear. The politics, not so much. A new article in Fore [...]

The human need for clean water is one of the biggest concerns among ESG (environmental, social and governance) investors worldwide, says a recent article on Greenbiz.com.  The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risk [...]

Part of the fun, the emotional reward of impact investing is supporting changes we want to see in the world. Part is choosing the solutions we believe will work. A good first step in considering where to impact inves [...]

Investment leaders at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) just released their most recent research on impact measurement and management (IMM). The 68-page second edition of their IMM survey explores impact inv [...]

We at DGI believe that finding ways to recover the water produced by fracking is critical to the success of this industry. The world’s most prolific oil field, the Permian Basin, for example, is located in southern N [...]