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Ageing, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

John Elkington · 3 March 2010 · Leave a Comment

View View from conference room Gone fishing Gone fishing: painting outside the conference room

We held the first of our roundtables on ageing, entrepreneurship and sustainability at Accenture’s offices this evening – and attracted an extraordinarily diverse range of participants. One of the receptionists wanted to know what the theme was, because the guest list was so out-of-the-ordinary. A great sense of momentum, though there’s still work to be done on how these three great areas of interest overlap. Extraordinary feeling reflecting that all of this span out of a short conversation David Grayson I had last year while I waited for a taxi back to Milton Keynes.

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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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