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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Kresse Wesling: Up-cycling Waste

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… More…

CNN profiles RSA innovation event

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,… More…

Beginnings of a C-Change?

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… More…

Social investors as game-changers

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… More…

Lily Lapenna, Founder & CEO of MyBnk

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,… More…

Message from the Chairman

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… More…

A Biosphere Agenda for Social Investors

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.… More…

New Alliance Magazine: ‘Rethinking Scale’

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… More…

Geoffrey West: Scaling Laws in Nature

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… More…

Will Six Sigma Save Us?

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… More…

HP Social Innovation – Catalysts for Change

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… More…

Are there TIGERS in your company’s tank?

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… More…

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