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Tallberg

John Elkington · 27 June 2009 · Leave a Comment

Study in blue Study in blue

If this is climate change, then – terrible thing to say – there are moments when I rather like it. Sadly, though, the mood here at the Tällberg Forum is often closer to that you might find in a small village as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride in.

A few snippets from Paul Gilding’s speech yesterday: we are all in denial, no-one is going to change, growth is finished and we are headed for global, cataclysmic collapse.

On the other hand, there was Gro Harlem Brundtland, who said in relation to solving the climate change, “We can, we must, we will.” And sessions focusing on Rwanda and on the Loess Plateau of China showed what can be done once people get serious about change.

Alejandro (Litovsky) led a great session yesterday on entrepreneurship and scale, in which the Volans corona (and our 5-stage Pathways to Scale model) featured rather nicely.

Something of a relief, though, to sit by the lake this morning and collect my thoughts.

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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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