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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name, or rather a tagline?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 used the phrase ‘Where the Future Takes Flight’—linking to the origins of our name, the Latin word for flying, as in the flying fish, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Ray Anderson, &#8216;Zeronaut&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 seriously ill he was when I last spoke to him, a couple of months back, while profiling him as one of the prototypical ‘Zeronauts’ in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Planet Goes Barefoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 by the Asahi Glass Foundation, chaired by Tetsuji Tanaka.  Two Blue Planet Prizes are awarded to individuals or organizations each year that make outstanding achievements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volans Joins Designers Accord</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 action. Becoming a member of the Accord provides access to a community of peers that shares methodologies, resources, and experiences around environmental and social issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geoffrey West on unified field theory of scaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 10:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; most recently, and off the scale in terms of interest and value, was a tweet this morning from Valerie Casey of Designers Accord. The link was to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day, from NASA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can still remember the first moment I saw the &#8216;Blue Marble&#8217; shot in 1972, of Planet Earth from space. As is often said, it &#8211; and the cornucopia of images that followed &#8211; helped power and shape modern environmentalism. In celebration of Earth Day 2011, today, NASA has released this short (less than two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: TBL Needn&#8217;t Doom You &#8211; Become a B-Corp!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 quotes at least one company I was involved with, pre-Volans, as it came to the point of sale: Ben &#38; Jerry&#8217;s, where at one stage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recyclebank No. 1 in WSJ cleantech listing</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/innovators/recyclebank-no-1-in-wsj-cleantech-listing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.volans.com/innovators/recyclebank-no-1-in-wsj-cleantech-listing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8216;s ECO:nomics Executive Conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., seeks to identify green companies with the greatest potential to succeed in an increasingly competitive sector. A team from venture-industry tracker VentureSource calculated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volans, a Serendipity Generator</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation Lab]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 been one of my core values/aspirations for a very long time and it&#8217;s one that I proposed &#8211; successfully &#8211; that we adopt at Volans. Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to a 6-Planet Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/news-views/opinion/welcome-to-a-6-planet-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Riyadh, via Bahrain.  In the process, I met and worked with some extraordinary people and organizations, including government agencies, companies, social enterprises and NGOs, and [...]]]></description>
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