Gates Switches from Mosquitoes to Fireflies
John Elkington
February 26, 2010
Was sent a link to Bill Gates’s latest TED talk, on climate and energy, and watched this evening between sessions. This time, instead of... More...
How the Boomers Will Pay Back
John Elkington
February 25, 2010
David Metz, former Chief Scientist at the UK Department of Transport and one of the brains trust we are assembling for our project on ageing,... More...
Opening the Bloom Box
John Elkington
February 24, 2010
One of the cleantech firms that everyone here in California is watching closely is Bloom Energy, with their enigmatic countdown. 60 Minutes just did... More...
Green Cities Event in San Francisco
John Elkington
The Clean & Cool Mission to San Francisco is going very well, though I’m finding my frequent flights of recent days have hammered whatever... More...
Allocating Patient Capital
Alejandro Litovsky
February 20, 2010
The funding options for social innovators is diversifying as investors, from private foundations to venture capitalists, experiment with social impact investing. This area, appealingly re-branded... More...
A Social Enterprise ‘Square Mile’ for London?
John Elkington
February 18, 2010
Was very interested to see the proposal that “a social enterprise ‘square mile’, similar to London’s Canary Wharf business district, should be created as... More...
The Coming Clash of Generations
John Elkington
February 15, 2010
Am preparing to lead a joint SustainAbility/Volans Book Club session tomorrow evening, which will focus on George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years. Reading... More...
Brilliant Ideas – Pepsi and the Business of Social Innovation
Charmian Love
February 11, 2010
I was impressed to see Pepsi taking on a new kind of challenge – looking for ways to catalyze social innovation through their
The Phoenix Economy, Take 2
John Elkington
A central theme in our 2009 report The Phoenix Economy was that the global economy was embroiled in something very different to a normal... More...
Spawning the Social Equivalents of Steve Jobs
John Elkington
February 4, 2010
I missed this when it first came out in the New York Times, but picked it up via Facebook today. Tom Friedman suggests... More...