IWD – Superfluere: Upcycled Products by Colleen Deetlefs
Colleen Deetlefs is one of the founders of IWD - Superfluere, a South African Company creating products from recycled materials. Coming from a clothing and footwear background - she had a clothing factory in the early nineties before becoming a
The Clothing Bank: Serving to Transform Local Communities in Africa
The Clothing Bank is a business initiative founded by Tracey Gilmore and Tracey Chambers. The aim of the entreprise is to reduce poverty in South Africa by providing unemployed women with the knowledge and tools necessary to create small businesses
Studentshubgh: Providing Opportunities for Students in Africa
Studentshubgh is an organization from Ghana working to support the life of students in anglophone Africa. In this interview with Impakter the Co-founder, Afia Bobia Amanfo, will share with us the story of her organization, their goals and their future
Lilly Loompa: Upcycling Waste and Making Beautiful Homeware in South Africa
Waste could be turned into a huge opportunity for those who have an open mind. Lizl Naude CEO and Founder of Lilly Loompa is one of those as her company works to upcycle waste and turn it into beautiful homeware. Lizl
Chabana Farms – An Agribusiness from Africa with SDGs at Heart
Could women play a significant role in sustainable development for Africa? Certainly, they can and Mavis Nduchwa is surely doing a lot to make this happen. Mavis is the founder and CEO of Chabana Farms - and of the sister
Joi Scientific, Harvesting Hydrogen from Seawater. Interview with Chairman and CEO, Traver Kennedy
Will hydrogen be the ultimate source of clean energy and power for the future? Joi Scientific certainly believes so, having developed a technology that will enable the harvesting of hydrogen gas from seawater at a competitive cost. Joi Scientific likes
BL!XT: Innovating Circuit Breakers for Greater Sustainability. Interview with Chairman and Co-founder, Charlotta Holmquist
Circuit breakers can be found in all our homes, electric devices, and cars among many other technologies that we use in our day-to-day lives. Yet the technology behind them has been the same for over 150 years. BL!XT - also
Green Campus Initiative: An Interview with Adenike Akinsemolu
Started by Adenike Akinsemolu in Nigeria, the Green Campus Initiative is a prime example of what a person with the environment at heart should do. Educating people about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is one of the main objectives of this project;
VerdeGo Aero™ : Three partnerships to make VTOLs Takeoff
VerdeGo Aero™ is going to change not just the way we fly, but the way we move around. After the decision to fully focus on propulsion systems, specifically building IDEP™ - (Integrated Distributed Electric Propulsion) a modular set of battery-electric
From Waste to Energy. How SEaB Energy Could Help the Transition Towards More Circular Cities
Waste managment and disposal are some of the most serious challenges in the path towards more sustainable cities. SEaB Energy believes waste has potential and should be used in a better way: its Anaerobic Digester - turning waste into biogas
Scoop Carpooling in Seattle. Helping citizens during the “Seattle Squeeze”
Carpooling apps are wildly popular given their significant positive impact not only on our daily lives, but on the environment as well. Sharing your ride with others means there are fewer vehicles on the road, thus generating fewer overall emissions
Three Companies Making Electric Flight Reality
One necessary step to slow the pace of climate change is to reduce our global CO2 emissions. In order to achieve this, one area we should look at is the way in which we move around. While the electrification of