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Phoenix 50 selection session

John Elkington · 7 February 2009 · Leave a Comment

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Spent the day at Volans, doing the first round of the selection process of the Phoenix 50 organisations for our third report for the Skoll Foundation.  In addition to Alejandro, Charmian (and her partner Sam, a venture capitalist in the health sector), Smita and I, we pulled in Alexa Clay and Patrin Watanatada from SustainAbility and Molly Webb from The Climate Group.  Really demanding process, particularly on a Saturday when the sun was shining wonderfully outside, but we made a huge amount of progress – and reached consensus on pretty much everything.  Still lots of work to do, though, with several rounds of assessment still to do, but we had previously managed to get 422 nominations down to around 160, with Smita’s help, then today’s session worked on those to get the number down to around 60.  In the evening, JP Renaut (of SustainAbility) and his wife Caroline came to Barnes for supper.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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