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Conversations with Green Gurus

John Elkington · 8 April 2009 · Leave a Comment

I find myself in the company of what are described as “some of the world’s most influential environmental movers and shakers” in a new book, Conversations with Green Gurus: The Collective Wisdom of Environmental Movers and Shakers, by Laura Mazur and Louella Miles, published by John Wiley & Sons.  Those featured include “thinkers” – those who have set the agenda, and “doers” – business people “who made the green cause their mission long before it became so prominent.”

The full list of people covered is as follows: 

Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface Inc, one of TIME Magazine’s ‘Heroes of the Environment’ 

James Cameron, founder of Executive Director and Vice-Chairman of Climate Change Capita (CCC) 

Paul Dickinson, CEO of the Carbon Disclosure Project 

John Elkington, founding partner and director of Volans, co-founder of SustainAbility, world authority of sustainable development, author of The Green Consumer Guide 

John Grant, author of The Green Marketing Manifesto, frequent conference speaker and prolific blogger 

Denis Hayes, President and CEO of The Bullitt Foundation, Chair of the International Earth Day Network 

Gary Hirshberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s largest producer of organic yogurt 

Tony Juniper, former Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (FoE), environmental campaigner, author and commentator 

Professor Sir David King, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford 

Amory B. Lovins, environmentalist, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute 

Professor Wangari Maathai, environmental and political activist, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Ricardo Navarro, founder and director of the Salvadoran Centre for Appropriate Technology (CESTA), winner of the prestigious Goldman prize 

Dr Vandana Shiva, physicist, environmental activist and author 

Jeffrey Swartz , CEO of Timberland Worldwide 

Sir Crispin Tickell, diplomat, academic, environmentalist, author

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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.

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