New Champions and distributed leadership trend

John Elkington

September 28, 2008

During the closing remarks of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions, held in Tianjin, China, Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman,... More...

Earth Overshoot Yesterday

John Elkington

September 24, 2008

Unhappy day. September 23rd, marked yet another unfortunate milestone: As of yesterday, humanity is estimated to have consumed all the new resources the ... More...

Opening Maps and Rhizomes

Alejandro Litovsky

September 22, 2008

As we work to develop the ‘Pathways to Scale’ framework to help social innovators mainstream their ideas and business models, we are wide open to... More...

Climate and poverty challenge traditional business models

Sam Lakha

John in Sao Paulo. Photo: Ana Paula Paiva/Valor The following interview appeared in Brazil’s Valor Economico. Climate and poverty challenge traditional business models Certain expressions frequently used... More...

Trailblazers at work

John Elkington

September 21, 2008

Homo volans in moat As the Autum/Fall begins, the latest round of our work with what we now dub our portfolio of Trailblazers has started.... More...

Silver lining around capitalist market cloud

Pamela Hartigan

September 18, 2008

Long-standing Wall Street institutions are collapsing overnight, the role of the US Federal Reserve is being transformed, investors everywhere are losing complete confidence in the... More...

Learning from the Lystrosaurs

John Elkington

September 14, 2008

While getting ready to head out to Heathrow and my first board meeting with the Global Reporting Initiative, due to take place in some sort... More...

Worried about Black Holes? Well here’s a Green Plug!

John Elkington

Alejandro seems unmoved by the risk of Black Holes at 2 Bloomsbury Place At home – and in the Volans London office – we have been... More...

Lord Puttnam, Eden’s Tim Smit and design guru Tim Brown join former astronaut on Volans Advisory Board

Kevin Teo

September 10, 2008

At last we’re under way. Volans (a name that derives from Pisces volans, the Latin for ‘flying fish’) is airborne. We have new offices, a... More...

Latest Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

John Elkington

September 7, 2008

The Volans team is currently racing to get the many components of our new website ready in time for our ‘soft launch’ later this week.... More...