(3BL Media/Justmeans) – As more digitization occurs in daily life, corporate and cloud data centers have become increasingly large consumers of power. Data centers in the U.S. now consume about two percent of the total power produced in the country. In 2014, U.S. data centers consumed energy equivalent to the amount consumed by about 6.4 million average American homes that year, according to a recent U.S. Department of Energy study.

(3BL Media/Justmeans) – Technology is integral to almost every aspect of life today, but not many people have technical skills. This is resulting in fewer job opportunities at every level. Lack of access to computer science education is a part of the problem. Less than 25 percent of high schools in the U.S. offer computer science classes. Only 2.5 percent of U.S. high school graduates go on to study computer science in college, and only one in five of these graduates is female.

(3BL Media/Justmeans) – According to John Doerr, a major venture capitalist at Kleiner-Perkins in Silicon Valley, investing in the transition from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy represents “the largest economic opportunity of the 21^st century.” Many mission-driven investors and companies are gearing up to profit from and add momentum to this great energy transition.

(3BL Media/Justmeans) – To most people’s surprise, Africa is now the second-fastest growing economy, after Asia. One of the key reasons behind this growth is an increased focus on social innovations and social engineering to improve the quality of life in the continent. Social innovations are adding that extra dimension to help maintain the pace of development, delivering the social capital that is necessary for sustainable economic growth.