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...