Women bring the skills, perspectives, and emotional intelligence necessary to achieve the green transition, address food shortages, and implement equitable financing. Women are 49.7% of the world’s population, but only 1.9% of venture capital investments in 2022 were placed with women-led startups. Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber, co-authors of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, join Mitch […]
Earth911 Podcast: Discover How The XX Edge Can Accelerate Sustainability & Equity
Women bring the skills, perspectives, and emotional intelligence necessary to achieve the green transition, address food shortages, and implement equitable financing. Women are 49.7% of the world’s population, but only 1.9% of venture capital investments in 2022 were placed with women-led startups. Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber, co-authors of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk, join Mitch […]
Earth911 Podcast: Plastic Bank’s David Katz on Grassroots Recycling Solutions
David Katz, founder of Plastic Bank, shares his vision for a regenerative society built on grassroots recycling programs that help low-income regions build resilient communities. The Vancover, B.C., startup compensates more than 30,000 plastic recyclers in the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Egypt. To date, Plastic Bank has stopped over 99 million pounds of plastic waste — the equivalent of more […]
Earth911 Podcast: Investing to Empower Future Generations with Doug Heske, Part 1
Mitch Ratcliffe sits down with Newday Impact Investing CEO Doug Heske to start a two-part ESG investing conversation on how to invest to help future generations meet the unique challenges of the climate crisis and global competition. More than 1.8 billion youth around the world are readying themselves to take their place in their economies and communities. But as we […]
Earth911 Podcast: Doug Heske on Choosing Stocks to Encourage Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Newday Impact Investing CEO Doug Heske returns to talk about investing to create a sustainable, circular, and equitable economy that we can hand to our children and grandchildren with a sense of pride. This week we’re looking at diversity, equity, and inclusion (often shortened to “DEI”), the idea that the dignity and value of every person must underlie a just […]