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What do Corporate Lawyers Do?

Bookshelf, representing corporate law

What is a Corporate Lawyer?

The role of a corporate lawyer really depends on the type of client they are serving. However, most corporate lawyers, no matter the industry, size, or type of client is responsible for advising on the clients’ legal rights, responsibilities, and obligations in their business. They may work as outside counsel, either for themselves at their own legal advisory firm or at a small-to-large sized law firm, or they may work as employees of a company as their general counsel.

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Impact Investing 101: How to “Do Good” while Making Substantial Returns

Impact Investing: Where Commerce Meets Compassion

Impact investing is the combination of investment and philanthropy – doing social “good” while making financial gains. Intentions and measurable impact are the two most important aspects of impact investing.

Areas of investment may include affordable or sustainable housing, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy infrastructure, healthcare services, education, and micro-finance.   

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Why Venture Capital Model is Not the Best Way to Invest in Energy, Water, and Food

Delayed Response

One of the challenges with both climate change and pollution is that it’s very gradual in its impact, and any progress is very slow like trying to move a battleship. This is one of the reasons Venture Capital in the biggest industries in the world, energy, water, and food, has been an uphill battle. I’ve been talking about addressing issues in these areas for over 20 years, but it feels like it’s only been in the last 12 months that people have been responsive and want to do something BIG.

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The Quartet of Food Production, Waste, Climate Change, and Nutrition

On my previous guest blogs, Why Our Food Systems are so Wasteful and  The Positive Feedback Loop of Production and Climate Change, I discuss some of the intricacies between food systems, waste, and climate change. When we throw in the topic of Nutrition, we get a complex quartet of subjects whose relationships are imperative in solving the world’s most pressing issues like climate change, hunger, and health.

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Why Our Food Systems are so Wasteful: Inefficiencies in Agriculture Technology, Infrastructure, and Waste

Guest Blog by Victoria Brodsky

“Food is not lacking, it’s just poorly managed.”  – Irene Banos Ruiz, Deutsche Welle13

Although we currently produce enough to food to feed everyone in the world 1.5x the amount of calories they need daily, there are millions of people starving, and a global food crisis looming. The reason for this includes inefficiencies in the application of agriculture technologies, infrastructure problems, and waste.

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How Will We Feed 10 Billion People in 2050?

feeding the world with agriculture

Co-Authored by Transformation, LLC Director of Projects, Victoria Brodsky

The Population Crisis at Hand

The growth of the world’s human population has been a topic of discussion for centuries. As our developments in science and technology allow for increased longevity, our hope has always been that the natural resource output from the earth will match the demand of the fast growing human population.

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AIM Summit in Dubai: “Beyond Renewables, Investing in Energy Infrastructure”

By Walter Schindler, Ed Hirs and Victoria Brodsky, Transformation LLC

I had the honor and the privilege of attending the Annual Investment Meeting Summit in Dubai as an invited speaker on November 26-27. Not only was it my first AIM Summit, but it was also my first experience visiting the incredible and fabulous city of Dubai. As one might expect, the ambiance and grandeur of the setting, combined with the professionalism of the Summit — well organized by Conference Director Raha Moradi — exceeded all of my expectations for the quality of the participants as well as the content, topics and substance of the speeches and panels. I was welcomed as a VIP and was treated with the greatest respect. Continue reading “AIM Summit in Dubai: “Beyond Renewables, Investing in Energy Infrastructure””

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The Latest Sustainability Trend: How Will We Feed 10 billion People in 2050?

Co-Authored by Transformation, LLC Director of Projects, Victoria Brodsky

The Population Crisis at Hand

The growth of the world’s human population has been a topic of discussion for centuries. As our developments in science and technology allow for increased longevity, our hope has always been that the natural resource output from the earth will match the demand of the fast growing human population. Continue reading “The Latest Sustainability Trend: How Will We Feed 10 billion People in 2050?”