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International Day

John Elkington · 20 April 2010 · Leave a Comment

Caption Jack Sim and Amy Caption Animation Caption Rafael next door Caption Jack’s hat Caption Some of today’s guests Caption Jack holds forth Caption Sublimely insulated from it all

A second day of hosting people stranded after the Skoll World Forum by the Icelandic eruption – this time with folk from Canada, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Very lively discussion, but even livelier after the arrival of Jack Sim of the WTO (World Toilet Organisation).

Later in the day, Charmian and I headed across to Knightsbridge for a session with JWT. Home relatively early, to watch a recording of the second programme in Joanna Lumley’s Nile series.  The best of British.

And now the planes are growling overhead once again as the airlines start to clear the backlog of people stranded around the world. As many have observed, this dark cloud has proved to have a brilliant silver lining – in that we got to see more of people we enormously admire, who would otherwise have winged their way home directly the Forum ended.

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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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