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		<title>&#8216;Clean Rich&#8217; vs. &#8216;Dirty Rich&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/opinion/clean-rich-vs-dirty-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 family businesses from across Latin America, I received a tweet from Vinod Khosla. He spotlighted the growing clash between the &#8216;Clean Rich&#8217; and the &#8216;Dirty Rich&#8217;, who are under growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World That Changes the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book &#8211; The World That Changes the World &#8211; will be launched at the Social Innovation Exchange, SMU, Singapore, on 16 September. With a chapter from Volans and other authors including Bill Drayton of Ashoka, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace and social impact experts like Jed Emerson, Geoff Mulgan and Sara Olsen, the book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s floods and entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/opinion/pakistans-flood-response-and-entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro Litovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social entrepreneurs might seem less relevant in humanitarian emergencies, when the focus of development work shifts to short-term, rapid response and direct assistance. But as international aid struggles to &#8216;reach the ground&#8217;, the business models created by social enterprises might prove to be invaluable intelligence for the Government of Pakistan&#8217;s policies and delivery mechanisms, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Overshoot Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/news/earth-overshoot-day-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lab-Biosphere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 one of our favourite social enterprises, the Global Footprint Network. As a result, today is Earth Overshoot Day, the day of the year in which our collective demands on the biosphere exceed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Innovation Seems To Be Mainstreaming</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/opinion/social-innovation-seems-to-be-mainstreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles this week reinforced my growing impression that the social innovation concept, which Volans spotlighted a couple of years back in our tagline &#8216;The Business of Social Innovation&#8217;, is going mainstream rather faster than I had expected. The first was in The Economist, focusing on how partnerships with social entrepreneurs can help governments to solve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from Volans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Lakha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volans is delighted to have just launched our first Newsletter, where we share a round-up of our latest activities as we advance the &#8216;business of social innovation&#8217;. Read more here. We look forward to any comments you may have, or if you wish to join our mailing list please contact info@volans.com]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Innovation Trends</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/opinion/top-10-innovation-trends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro Litovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation Lab]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new article on Mckinsey Quarterly outlines the top 10 innovation trends in business that are being enabled by new technologies &#8212; and shows how they trends are re-shaping the challenges and opportunities for companies, society and their ability to reach sustainability goals. These trends are significant for our innovation work at Volans, partly because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative public transport:  China&#8217;s 3-D Express Coach</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/opinion/innovative-public-transport-chinas-3-d-express-coach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.volans.com/opinion/innovative-public-transport-chinas-3-d-express-coach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charmian Love</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buses vs. Cars. The road wars between these two modes of transportation has been escalating in cities around the world to a breaking point. China is getting ready to experiment with an interesting solution to this dilemma &#8211; one  that allows buses and cars to share the road, rather than compete for valuable real estate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IIRC Pursues Second Tiger</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/news/iirc-pursues-second-tiger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; the second if which is &#8216;integrated reporting&#8217;. We continue to work in that area &#8211; and today marks the launch of the International Integrated Reporting Committee, of which I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparent Economy Needs Transparency.gov</title>
		<link>http://www.volans.com/opinion/transparent-economy-needs-transparency-gov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Elkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the six TIGERS (or market trends) spotlighted in the new Volans report, The Transparent Economy, is the need for a transformation in the way that governments do what they do. A transparent economy is a necessary condition for sustainability, though no guarantee of it, and transparent governance and government will be another. Easy [...]]]></description>
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