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SustainAbility Alumni Party

John Elkington · 19 April 2010 · Leave a Comment

Caption 1 Geoff kicks off (right) Caption 2 Jonathan Shopley with Elaine Caption 3 Gary and Rafael Caption 4 Kelly and her husband Caption 5 Christele, Shelly, me, Tomoo Caption 6 Amy’s hand, Alejandro and Tomoo Caption 7 Tomoo and Sam Caption 8 Nick (check shirt), Eric (back), Christele and Julia Caption 9 Shelly, Christele, Jodie, Judy Caption 10 Frances, Jodie (behind), Alejandro, Sophia, Alex Caption 11 JP, Judy, Eric, Elaine, Rafael

Delightful evening today at SustainAbility, an Alumni Party, which I could get to because Icelandic ash had stopped me flying to Seoul today. The event pulled in an extraordinary range of people, from Jonathan Shopley who was working with me before SustainAbility and Julia Hailes who co-founded the company with me in 1987, through successive generations right up to the present day.

The photographs are by me, Sam and Julia, with captions only identifying those who have been closely involved with with SustainAbility or Volans, or – as in the case of Sam, Geoff and I – with both.

Otherwise a fairly busy day, finishing off writing tasks, doing telephone conferences, and all with the vigorous background hum of a dozen or more Canadians in the front offices at Volans, people who we know and who have also been kept in the UK by the volcanic eruption.

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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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