Innovation from both ends: linking the government with social entrepreneurs

Jieying Zheng

September 22, 2009

Last Friday, Volans organised a workshop on social entrepreneurship at the Hub King’s Cross London, bringing together representatives from both the UK government and... More...

African Demographics vs. Green Economy

Alejandro Litovsky

September 21, 2009

One African in two is a child. The Economist recently illustrated how Africa’s baby bonanza threatens the continent with meltdown. It reports, for example,... More...

Fixing, Helping and Serving

Kevin Teo

September 19, 2009

An insightful poem shared by Leng Lim at a recent Volans Talent engagement between PricewaterhouseCoopers and Hagar.   Fixing, Helping and Serving A Fixer has... More...

Investors worth $13 trillion raise their voice on climate

Alejandro Litovsky

September 18, 2009

The world’s largest global investors issued on Wednesday a joint call for strong action from U.S. and international policy makers in the fight... More...

Low-carbon industries reach $534bn turnover

John Elkington

Lord Stern predicted that the low-carbon goods and services sector would be worth $500bn by 2050 – a figure that HSBC reports has already... More...

INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program – Singapore

Kevin Teo

September 17, 2009

Following a successful inaugural launch of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program (ISEP) in the Singapore campus last year, INSEAD will be holding the ISEP program... More...

International Democracy Day, yesterday

John Elkington

One of our Trailblazer organisations, The Environment Foundation, has just become The Foundation for Democracy & Sustainable Development – and, as Chairman of the... More...

VOLT-ING INTO THE FUTURE

Sam Lakha

September 15, 2009

A guest blog by Dr. Gary Kendall, Director of Climate Change Programs, SustainAbility The future is bright, but in my case it isn’t orange,... More...

Singapore International Foundation seeks Dynamic Young Social Entrepreneurs

Kevin Teo

September 11, 2009

The Singapore International Foundation (SIF) will select up to 6 groups of young social entrepreneurs to participate in a week-long in-residence session from 7 to... More...

Schwab Foundation honors Asia Social Entrepreneurs

Kevin Teo

September 10, 2009

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship will acknowledge the work of 5 Social Entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions... More...