The high-end fashion company Elvis & Kresse (E&K) caught the attention of fashion enthusiasts and environmentalists alike when it successfully launched its line of fashion accessories produced from decommissioned fire…
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On Monday, Charmian Love, Volans Chief Executive, moderated a discussion at the RSA on the importance of transatlantic networks in building enlightened and enterprising societies. The panelists included Kresse Wesling,…
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It’s almost 25 years since we launched SustainAbility, building on the work done by Gro Harlem Brundtland and her World Commission on Environment and Development. At times it seemed as if we…
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On Wednesday 16th of June we launched the special issue of Alliance magazine on how foundations and social investors are rethinking scale. The event was hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat…
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Empowering young people to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their money effectively and make enterprising choices throughout their lives – these are the key drivers for MyBnk,…
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Getting Into Deep Water: As the shock-waves from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe spread around the world, and the oil spread around the Gulf of Mexico, a colleague in Sweden sent…
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Social investors and foundations have a role to play in supporting the scaling up of an economy that stewards the long-term interests of humanity, what we’ve called the Biosphere Economy.…
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The founder of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom; Richard Branson, of the Virgin Group; Jeff Raikes, CEO of the Gates Foundation; and Iqbal Quadir, founder of Grameen Phone, are some of the…
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TIME Magazine has called him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist, formerly President of the Santa Fe Institute–the leading institution…
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Does GE hold the secrete to creating effective health care systems? An article caught my attention in the FT today ‘GE Plans Tonic for Healthcare Inefficiency’ which highlights a new…
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Things have been busy and buzzing in HP’s newly formed Office of Global Social Innovation. The team has recently unveiled new and innovative programs designed to be catalysts for dramatic…
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John Elkington blazes the way to a comprehensive approach he calls TIGERS in a new report ‘The Transparent Economy’ produced with the Global Reporting Initiative, which aims to better inform the…
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