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SustainAbility: The first 21 yearsAfter two years as Chief Entrepreneur, 2008 saw see me adding a new set of opportunities, challenges and responsibilities to my portfolio as we launch a new organisation, Volans Ventures (http://www.volans.com). In the midst of all this, I remain 100% dedicated to SustainAbility’s success. I remain a member of the company’s Board and a major shareholder. In addition, I am also contracted to work with SusatinAbility for two days a week. I see SustainAbility as the mothership now headed along a reasonably clear course into the future, whereas Volans is more akin to a scoutship—pushing out into unmapped territory. We will continue to work closely together in such areas as our Skoll Foundation-funded work on social entrepreneurship, for example, and on Pharma Futures. For progress reports, please keep an eye on this Journal and its equivalent on the Volans website at [http://volans.com/blog/]  Tabled at People’s Hall:
An early picture of the SustainAbility team
 Conversations: One
of the best things I ever did at SustainAbility was to form the Council,
initially to keep Julia (Hailes) in the frame when she stood down
as a Director—then, later, the Faculty. For me, this shot of a
break during a meeting of the SustainAbility core team and Council
at the Royal Society of Arts caught one of the organisation’s great
strengths—the parallel, intertwined conversation
 Work, rest and punting: Seb
(Beloe) on his cell phone while Jodie (Thorpe) and Judy (Kuszewski)
pole or paddle the punt. This was during a rather competitive punt
race towards the end of an away day in Oxford. Typically, I can’t
recall who won.
 Curiosity: Never stop asking questions (with Maggie Brenneke at a SustainAbility party). Hat decorations by Sam Lakha.
 Geoff (Lye)
and I: He put SustainAbility on a sound business footing, I read the magazines.
 Succession: Sophia
(Tickell) took over from me as SustainAbility’s Chair in 2005 and
Mark (Lee) became CEO—part of our plans for succession. My sincere
thanks to them both.
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