Scaling solar energy in Tanzania
Alejandro Litovsky
March 31, 2009
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... More...
Skoll World Forum 2009
John Elkington
March 29, 2009
Several members of the Volans team spent several days at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford this week – Alejandro (Litovsky), Charmian (Love), Sam (Lakha)... More...
Skoll Foundation film
John Elkington
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... More...
Progress at 2degrees
John Elkington
March 12, 2009
One of the Trailblazers we work with, 2degrees, has reported progress to date. Key points: We now have over 2,000 members – corporate... More...
Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency & Reporting
John Elkington
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... More...
Where are the solutions? Road notes from Davos to Barcelona…
Charmian Love
March 11, 2009
I know there is a crisis going on out there. I experience directly every morning as I get on the Tube at Liverpool station,... More...
Less Carbon, More Jobs
John Elkington
March 4, 2009
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’... More...
