Of King and Countries

Amanda Feldman

December 6, 2011

Geoff Lye maintains focus in a very warm Durban to discuss serendipity and liability at the COP 17: People who know me also know that... More...

Oh, to be YOUNGO!

Amanda Feldman

Geoff Lye, co-Founder of Volans and SustainAbility‘s Executive Chairman, focuses part two of his Durban blog series on the YOUNGOs. How are younger generations playing... More...

The Durban Disconnects?

Sam Lakha

December 5, 2011

Geoff Lye, co-Founder of Volans and SustainAbility‘s Executive Chairman, senses a series of disconnects between the COP conversations in Durban and the future... More...

Call for ‘Zeronauts’ in Singapore

Jacqueline Lim

November 29, 2011

John Elkington was in Singapore last month to launch The Future Quotient report (at the Family Business Network’s 22nd International Summit) and participate... More...

Girl Power

Amanda Feldman

November 25, 2011

Volans was the proud host of a ‘Women in Social Finance’ meet-up on our comfortable red couches this past Tuesday.  Wine in hand and nibbles... More...

Good Deals

Amanda Feldman

November 22, 2011

Volans is looking forward to Good Deals 2011, the UK Social Investment Conference, where inspirational social entrepreneurs meet innovative investors to get good deals done. More...

FQ for social enterprises

Jacqueline Lim

November 11, 2011

The Future Quotient (FQ) is relevant not just for business and policy leaders, but for social entrepreneurs as well. Read Charmian Love‘s recent article... More...

Next-gen avatars to help future-focused thinking?

Jacqueline Lim

Is it possible to programme individuals and business leaders to think sustainably? Although this seems somewhat unusual, such solutions might just be what’s needed in... More...

An Unreasonable Partnership

Amanda Feldman

November 8, 2011

Since Volans co-founders John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan published The Power of Unreasonable People in 2008, social and environmental entrepreneurs have continued... More...

The Demand and Supply of Sensibility

Jacqueline Lim

October 24, 2011

In the latest issue of Social Space, John Elkington shares his views on thinking long-term and suggests how Singapore and indeed the wider Asian... More...