Author name: Derek Markham

lives in southwestern New Mexico and digs bicycles, simple living, organic gardening, sustainable lifestyle design, slacklining, bouldering, and permaculture. He loves good food, with fresh roasted chiles at the top of his list of favorites. Catch up with Derek on Twitter, RebelMouse, Google+, or at his natural parenting site, Natural Papa!

Moringa Trees Fight Deforestation, Improve Food Security in Rural Kenya

Sustainable Agriculture / By

By introducing and cultivating the fast-growing drought tolerant moringa tree in villages in rural Kenya, the Green World Campaign (GWC) is helping villagers reverse deforestation, improve soil fertility, and increase their food security. Between deforestation and short-term farming tactics that don’t replenish soil nutrients, farmland in Kenya has been severely depleted, and when combined with […]

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New Crowdfunding Platform Combines Funding with Philanthropy

Philanthropy / By

In a twist on the current technique of crowdfunding, a new platform aims to add a charitable angle to crowdsourcing fundraising efforts by enabling both the entrepreneurs using the site, as well as their backers, to pledge a portion of that money to charity. With the conventional and rapidly growing crowdfunding model, which (if you’ve

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Is Bitcoin Mining Killing the Planet with its Massive Carbon Footprint?

Finance / By

Bitcoin, the latest virtual specie and darling of advocates of alternative, decentralized, and peer-to-peer currencies, has been making waves in currency speculation and spurring interest from investors and traders. And on the surface, bitcoin has a lot going for it, such as being digital, anonymous, decentralized, and open source, with its value not being tied

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World Record Crowdfunding Campaign to Fund Tallest Skyscraper in Colombia

Investing / By

[This article was written by Alex Hayes and originally published by Mosaic.] The largest successful crowdfunding campaign in history just raised over $200 million, from 3,800 backers, for an ambitious project to build the tallest skyscraper in Colombia. The BD Bacatá is a skyscraper funded on the Prodigy Network, a crowdfunding platform. Once complete, the

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Just Released: Guide to Early-Stage Global Impact Investing

Investing / By

For impact investors interested in funding early-stage social enterprises, there’s a new comprehensive guide available to help develop an effective investment strategy, as well as to serve as a guide for best utilizing capital in the service of not just profits, but also social good. The new e-guide from Toniic and Duke University’s CASE i3,

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Invest in solar for community institutions with Crowd Solar

Investing / By

Investors can help community institutions save money, reduce their dependence on fossil fuels, and become more resilient, by helping to fund solar installations at schools, libraries, or local nonprofit organizations with Crowd Solar. By investing money in solar for community institutions at places that do good in the community, it’s a win/win situation, as the

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Track social impact of philanthropy with Versaic’s Impact Reporting tool

Corporate Social Responsibility / By

While it may be the right thing to do, both for your community and for your company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives, giving to deserving organizations or programs might not have the social impact that’s intended. Tracking the effects of philanthropic investments can provide key data to inform not only future giving campaigns, but to also

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Could a Blue Economy grow a more sustainable future?

Inspiring Ideas / By

One of the big problems with truly innovative and world-changing ideas is the fact that many people, when hearing about them, dismiss them as fables, as being a “nice concept, but totally unfeasible,” and instead of believing that a more abundant and prosperous future is possible, thanks to ‘blue sky’ thinkers, they continue doing the

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Why Should Businesses Invest in Natural Capital?

Resources / By

The subject of natural capital, and natural capital accounting, is a divisive one. On one side, proponents of the practice believe that it’s an important piece of the sustainability puzzle, by enabling businesses to “gain insight into their environmental impacts, normalized to a common monetary unit.” On the other hand, detractors of natural capital accounting

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Microfunding and Crowdsourcing Brings Neighborhood Projects to Life

Inspiring Ideas / By

We’d probably all agree that our communities need to be improved and revitalized, and we’d also probably agree that while all of us can take small steps individually to make them a better place, making larger, longer lasting, and more effective changes are beyond the efforts of any single one of us. But when crowdsourcing

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GoalZero & Barebones Match Purchase Dollars for Haiyan Relief

International / By

Leading mobile solar equipment manufacturer Goal Zero Solar and their sister company Barebones (makers of greenhouses, tents, and more) have teamed up to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan to get their basic needs met: Four essential human needs: Power, shelter, water and food. These make up the four essential needs for human life. Both Goal

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Water Grid Monitoring Tech Named Best Sustainability Innovation

Sustainability / By

Are we having a true water crisis, and need to discover and deliver water from new sources, or are we having a water management crisis that can be addressed through better management and monitoring of our water infrastructure? According to TaKaDu, a software-as-a-service company based in Israel, it’s the latter, and by managing our water

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