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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...

One billion people. That’s the number Earthday.org says they have been mobilizing annually to protect the planet. Their work goes on all year, but the Earth Day celebration itself is the largest civic event on Earth. In the midst of our global...

Emmanuel Nyirinkindi and Jessica Schnabel When it comes to understanding, valuing, and investing in women’s inclusion, the fintech industry is not moving fast enough. And speed is essential: without drastic acceleration of women’s financial inclusion, gender bias may become hard-coded into the digital financial-services...

Robert Samuels A recent federal study on graduation rates for American colleges and universities shows that 40% of all students did not earn a degree or credential within eight years of leaving high school. The graduation rate is even lower for low-income...