About the guide
Discover the media
shaping a better future.
The Impact Media Guide is a curated discovery platform for the podcasts, films, books, publications, videos and other media exploring how business, capital, innovation and human ingenuity can help create a more sustainable and equitable world.
We believe media does more than inform us. It shapes what we believe is possible, introduces us to new ideas and solutions, and can inspire us to take action.
But finding high-quality impact-focused media isn't always easy. Important conversations are scattered across thousands of podcasts, publications, streaming platforms, organizations and independent creators.
Impact Media Guide brings them together.
Starting with podcasts
We're beginning with podcasts because some of the most interesting conversations about the future are already happening there.
The Impact Podcast Guide brings together leading voices across the Impact Economy, including:
- Impact business and social enterprise
- Impact investing and finance
- Climate and climate technology
- Clean energy and the energy transition
- Sustainability and the circular economy
- Oceans and the blue economy
- Food and regenerative agriculture
- Nature and biodiversity
- Health and wellbeing
- Social impact and philanthropy
- Technology and innovation
Rather than simply creating another podcast list, we're building a curated guide designed to help people discover the conversations most relevant to their interests, work and potential impact.
From media discovery to action
The podcast directory is only the beginning.
Impact Media Guide is being developed as a broader discovery platform connecting people with media across podcasts, films and documentaries, books, publications and newsletters, video, events and emerging forms of transformational media.
Our vision follows a simple progression:
Discover an idea. Hear from the people working on it. Explore the organizations and solutions involved. Find ways to participate, invest, collaborate or take action.
Over time, the Guide will connect media not only by format, but by the issues, industries, organizations, people and solutions they explore.
The Impact Economy is bigger than any one sector
Climate change, energy, food, oceans, health, technology, finance and social challenges are deeply interconnected.
So are their solutions.
We use the term Impact Economy to describe the growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, businesses, nonprofits, innovators, policymakers, creators and citizens working to generate positive social and environmental outcomes alongside economic value.
Impact Media Guide exists to make that ecosystem easier to discover and understand.
Independent. Curated. Collaborative.
Our goal isn't to include everything.
It's to help people find what matters.
We combine editorial curation with recommendations from creators, organizations, experts and the broader impact community. As the platform grows, we intend to make it easier for podcast producers, filmmakers, authors, publishers and other creators to submit their work for consideration.
We also welcome collaboration with organizations working across the Impact Economy.
Part of a larger impact media vision
Impact Media Guide builds on decades of work at the intersection of media, business, sustainability and social change.
It is being developed as part of the broader Impact Media Network, with a long-term vision of strengthening the media ecosystem supporting the Impact Economy.
Because solving the world's biggest challenges requires more than good ideas.
People have to discover them.