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Monthly Archives: September 2008

New Champions and distributed leadership trend

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, World Economic Forum, argued that… More…

Earth Overshoot Yesterday

Unhappy day. September 23rd, marked yet another unfortunate milestone: As of yesterday, humanity is estimated to have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to… More…

Opening Maps and Rhizomes

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 sources of new ideas and… More…

Climate and poverty challenge traditional business models

The following interview appeared in Brazil’s Valor Economico. Climate and poverty challenge traditional business models Certain expressions frequently used in business circles in recent times can be traced back to… More…

Trailblazers at work

As the Autum/Fall begins, the latest round of our work with what we now dub our portfolio of Trailblazers has started. These are the 30 or so social enterprises and… More…

Silver lining around capitalist market cloud

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 US market and opponents of… More…

Learning from the Lystrosaurs

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 of castle outside Leiden, my… More…

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

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

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

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 new COO (Charmian Love) and… More…

Latest Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

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. One component of that work… More…

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