Van Jones forced out
John Elkington
September 7, 2009
With the resignation of ‘Green Czar’ Van Jones, the Obama Administration is losing one of the nation’s leading environmentalists—but progressives also note that the loss... More...
Corporate Roundtable on Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University
Kevin Teo
The Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business will be holding the Corporate Roundtable on Social Entrepreneurship (CRT) on... More...
Health Care Innovaton – Robotic Surgery
Charmian Love
September 5, 2009
Over dinner last night with a good friend who works at Guy’s Hospital (London), we had a lively conversation about new technologies being used in... More...
EU Barroso’s ‘radical pathways’ to cut emissions
Alejandro Litovsky
‘Radical’ is not the average qualifier for the European Commission’s President, Jose Manuel Barroso. Over the last two years, his efforts to align European countries... More...
Brazilian leaders discuss pathways to climate security
Alejandro Litovsky
September 4, 2009
The Pathways to Scale framework developed by Volans was recently used by the Brazilian association for leadership development (ABDL) to train climate leaders... More...
Update on DJSI, a Volans Trailblazer
John Elkington
SAM, the investment boutique focused on Sustainability Investing, together with Dow Jones Indexes and STOXX Ltd., two leading global index providers, has announced the results... More...
Triple Bottom Line, Take 15
John Elkington
It’s more or less exactly 15 years since I came up with the term triple bottom line, which has demonstrated the ability to run and... More...
Vertical Farms – A new feature to the future urban landscape?
Charmian Love
September 1, 2009
We are facing a few big ‘crunches’ right now…the credit crunch which we all know, as well as an emerging energy crunch and climate crunch.... More...
