He says that it’s important that you are confident when talking about your concept. “You have an advantage over many of your competitors: the excitement and goodwill of customers who will support your ideas.”

Ever since India invalidated much of its cash, it has been encouraging its citizens to switch to mobile wallets and other epayment solutions. Today, it took another step in pushing its citizens to embark on the cashless payment solutions — but...

How are companies scored? Rank, %, Company, Location 1 87.7% Shire PLC Ireland Health Care 2 83.9% Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC Britain Consumer Staples 3 83.2% BT Group PLC Britain Telecommunication Services 4 82.9% Swisscom...

Hotels and other hospitality businesses guzzle about 15 percent of the water used commercially (PDF) every year in the United States. The laundries they run to keep guest linens fresh are among the top three consumers — after private and public...

This is cool.. David Gershon is the CEO of the Empowerment Institute and has been influencial in creating the "Cool City Challenge" The cool city challenge is based on 3 cities for 3 years, with 25% partitpation of households with the aim the...

Great article released today on the top 100 Influencers and Brands in Climate Action. 'Climate action is best understood as our biggest opportunity. Transitioning to clean energy will not only reduce our economic risk from climate change, it...

https://www.b1g1.com/businessforgood/sustainable-development-goals/ new feature on the Buy 1 Give 1 site making it super easy to make an impact.

See how many projects B1G1 currently has to support each of the SDG goals and how many impacts* have been created so far.

A new agricultural technique may have just solved the problem of growing food in some of the world's most inhospitable places – locations that don't currently support traditional agriculture. In addition, the technique can save what are clearly...

# "This Climate Action publication sets out a number of actions that organisations and governments can take… backed up by clear examples of how reducing greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved." # Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United...

## If a private-equity fund or a venture capitalist was to invest in a chain of schools in backward regions of the country, that would be impact investing When an investor puts money into a company, it is with the expectation of getting a good...

# Water sustains all life. Her songs begin in the tiniest of raindrops, transform to flowing rivers, travel to majestic oceans and thundering clouds and back to earth again. When water is threatened, all living things are threatened. – Indigenous...

Coaching and mentoring across age groups makes sense. There is surely much each can learn from the other. We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom. In their article Lynda...

Susie, to say thanks for the invitation I have just made an impact on B1G1 to fund a skill development workshop for a social entrepreneur in India.