There is no scarcity of sun. But the sheer scale of the challenge to create solar energy solutions in Tanzania is daunting. Will energy entrepreneurs ever succeed? John Keane, SolarAid‘s…
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Several members of the Volans team spent several days at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford this week – Alejandro (Litovsky), Charmian (Love), Sam (Lakha) and I, with Geoff (Lye)…
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The Skoll Foundation has recently completed a short, 9-minute film about the field of social entrepreneurship. It provides a useful overview of the progress made over the past three decades.…
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One of the Trailblazers we work with, 2degrees, has reported progress to date. Key points: We now have over 2,000 members – corporate climate change leaders, solutions providers, cleantech investors,…
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One of the Trailblazers that Volans supports, alongside SustainAbility, is the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). A trip report on my second GRI Board meeting can be found at http://www.johnelkington.com/journal/. To…
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I know there is a crisis going on out there. I experience directly every morning as I get on the Tube at Liverpool station, in the heart of London’s financial…
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One of the things we have talked about for some time at Volans is how we might most usefully map the ‘power of unreasonable people’ – and the evolving ‘Phoenix…
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