Toilets Coming Out Of Water Closet
John Elkington
October 8, 2010
World Toilet Day – which this year falls on 19 November – has been created by WTO (the World Toilet Organization), one of our favourite... More...
Aquamarine Power: Green energy out of the blue
John Elkington
October 2, 2010
Volans is getting involved in a number of initiatives to identify and celebrate innovators and pioneers in relevant areas, including one that Newsweek will... More...
Fighting the Dilution of Social Entrepreneurship
John Elkington
September 15, 2010
We have already seen the dilution of terms like sustainability as they have gone mainstream – now we must also fight to stop the dilution... More...
Will Tomorrow’s Greatest Generation Be Chinese?
John Elkington
September 13, 2010
The potential for growing conflict between the generations is central to the ‘Second Half’/Ageless Economy program Volans is developing with Cranfield University and Accenture,... More...
Ashoka Spotlights Hybrid Value Chains in HBR
John Elkington
September 4, 2010
I read the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review on a train ride alongside Lac Leman on Thursday, including the wonderful piece by... More...
‘Clean Rich’ vs. ‘Dirty Rich’
John Elkington
August 31, 2010
While preparing for a speech I have to do in a couple of weeks in Buenos Aires, to an audience of younger members of multi-generational... More...
The World That Changes the World
John Elkington
August 26, 2010
A new book – The World That Changes the World – will be launched at the Social Innovation Exchange, SMU, Singapore, on 16 September.... More...
Earth Overshoot Day 2010
John Elkington
August 21, 2010
Sadly, not a day to celebrate. It has taken our species less than nine months to exhaust our entire ecological budget for 2010, according to... More...
Social Innovation Seems To Be Mainstreaming
John Elkington
August 15, 2010
Two articles this week reinforced my growing impression that the social innovation concept, which Volans spotlighted a couple of years back in our tagline ‘The... More...
IIRC Pursues Second Tiger
John Elkington
August 2, 2010
In our latest report, The Transparent Economy, we identify six key trends that will shape the degree of transparency and accountability over the next decade –... More...
