Our Team Pollinator, Roxanne, spoke to Nick, The Good Growth Company, a few weeks ago to discuss storytelling, ownership and regeneration. A mighty claim — but one humbly and truthfully made, as I discovered when I sat down with co-founder Nick Keppel-Palmer a few weeks ago. The Good Growth Company…

‘Capitalism is both the greatest source of prosperity and progress in human history and the greatest threat to it. This paradox is at the heart of the case for reinvention.’ This line comes from a new report — Reinventing Capitalism: a transformation agenda ­ — which is the latest product…

Better news! In 2020, for the first time, Earth Overshoot Day — the day in the year when our total consumption of resources overtakes our planet’s total production of the same resources — went backwards. But only because of COVID-19. Volans — in the shape of co-founder John Elkington —…

John Elkington Why it’s time to move from Responsibility to Resilience and Regeneration. Once again, people are talking about “Black Swans”, which typically take us exponentially to places we don’t want to go. But there is also growing interest in the potential for exponentially positive “Green Swans”. This short series of articles is based on extracts from my latest book, just…

John Elkington Why the art — and science — of saving the world must go exponential. As 2020 kicked off, sustainability was the global buzzword. Now COVID-19 has made it even clearer that business-as-usual — and even change-as-usual — strategies cannot deliver the future we want. …

John Elkington How can our politics embrace — and drive — positive exponentials beyond COVID-19? Once again, capitalism faces an existential struggle. To survive and, yes, grow it must be embedded in healthy ecosystems, healthy societies, and, critically, healthy political systems. …

John Elkington How can our economies become “exponentially positive”? In 2018, I announced a “product recall” for the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), a term I had coined back in 1994. Shareholder value, increasingly contested around the world, keeps social and environmental impacts — be they negative or positive — at arm’s length. …

Pioneering success of Denis Hayes recognised on eve of historic 50th anniversary. Denis Hayes, the Founder of the Earth Day Network, and one of the most influential environmental campaigners of all time, has been awarded a prestigious Green Swan Award by Volans. Click here to view four short videos explaining…

John Elkington At Volans, we have been talking about the accelerating collision between breakdown and breakthrough trajectories since our Breakthrough Capitalism Forum back in 2014. Whether or not it meets the criteria Nassim Nicholas Taleb set for a “Black Swan,” many have labelled COVID-19 that way. …