Trashbergs, photovoltaic tress and houses made of water bottles? What else would you expect to see in Venice?

Charmian Love

October 31, 2008

Social business models have found a new platform … the Venice Biennale! The major theme of the Biennale changes from year to year and... More...

Grit in our oyster

John Elkington

October 27, 2008

A phenomenally busy week, including a session with Singapore’s Economic Development Board on Monday, a highly successful joint SustainAbility-Volans evening event at The... More...

Trailblazing in Le Monde

John Elkington

October 19, 2008

A column I co-authored with Pierre-François Thaler and Sylvain Guyoton of EcoVadis, one of our Trailblazers, appeared in yesterday’s issue of Le... More...

Red-Redemption- Games People Play

Smita Sircar

October 18, 2008

Many interesting social entrepreneurs drop by the Volans office in London and in these disruptive times of financial crisis it is especially heartening to hear... More...

Blog Action Day:The Vision of Dr. V – Harbinger of a “New Economy” – Madurai, India

Pamela Hartigan

October 15, 2008

On the surface, India is quite frightening. It has a population of 1 billion and growing- most of them living in squalor. Raw sewage flows... More...

For This Generation, Vocations of Service

Kevin Teo

Ian Shapira from the Washington Post writes about the current generation of people in their 20s and early-30s looking to effect social change by leveraging... More...

Volans Connects – Cambodia – Hagar International

Kevin Teo

October 12, 2008

I’ve just completed a two-day planning trip for a Volans Connects engagement in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This engagement will involve a major multi-national professional... More...

Can We Green the White House?

John Elkington

October 11, 2008

As I pushed my cycle through the front door last night after arriving back late from Volans, Elaine asked me whether I wanted to watch... More...

The Ultimate Domino Effect

John Elkington

Some thoughts on the links between the credit crunch and the looming ecological credit crunch – including the climate crunch – are presented in an... More...

Fortune Global 500 in the eye of storm

John Elkington

October 9, 2008

Took part today in a so-called Roundtable for the Fortune Global 500 in the BT Tower, though the event was mainly held in a small... More...