Volans co-organised a Zero Workshop at Nestle’s Vevey HQ last week, highlights of which are captured in this Guardian Sustainable Business blog, published today. Innovators from across Nestle took part,…
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With so many differing sustainability platforms, bringing order out of chaos means developing a common language. Our latest post on CSRWire raises the question whether we need to mind our…
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Just back from a Shell reception at the National Gallery, the frontage of which – overlooking London’s Trafalgar Square – had been draped with a large banner by Greenpeace. Spoke…
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Fast Company has just named Recyclebank – one of the portfolio of some 30 organizations we help though serving on Boards or Advisory Boards – as number 37 on its…
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When we set up Volans early in 2008, we adopted the tagline: ‘The Business of Social Innovation,’ a phrase which soon went into the language. At the same time, we…
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I was enormously saddened yesterday to hear of the death of Ray Anderson, founder of Interface, a self-described ‘Radical Industrialist’ and long-time champion of sustainability. He had told me how…
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Barefoot College, founded by Volans advisory Board member Bunker Roy, is one of the winners of this year’s Blue Planet Prize—which is in its twentieth year. The Prize is offered…
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We are delighted to have joined the Designers Accord, as a Corporate Adopter. Adopters of the Designers Accord commit to five guidelines that provide collective and individual ways to take…
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Time and again, I hear people saying that Twitter only brings them dross, but time and again I find it brings a real haul of treasure – most recently, and…
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I can still remember the first moment I saw the ‘Blue Marble’ shot in 1972, of Planet Earth from space. As is often said, it – and the cornucopia of…
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In an interesting article, the New York Times raises the question whether being a triple bottom line (TBL) company dooms you to being taken over by the sector leader? It…
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Congratulations! The Wall Street Journal has just named Recyclebank as the #1 venture-capital-backed cleantech company. The Top 10 Clean-Tech ranking, announced yesterday evening at the Journal‘s ECO:nomics Executive Conference in Santa…
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Directed by a tweet this morning from Joanna Higgins, who used to be Editor of Director magazine, where I contribute a monthly column, to an HBR blog on serendipity. This has…
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2011 started with a bang for me, as I traveled from Hong Kong to Beijing, from Beijing to Singapore, from Singapore—via Sri Lanka—to Abu Dhabi, and from Abu Dhabi to…
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The world’s largest food company is now Nestlé, where John Elkington is a member of the Creating Shared Value Advisory Board created by the company’s Chairman, Peter Brabeck Letmathe. The…
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