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Clownfish and GRI Board

John Elkington · 5 October 2010 · Leave a Comment

1 GRI Board pauses for coffee 2 Graffito 3 Elevator moment 4 Clownfish in Indonesian restaurant 5 Shopfront en route back to the Eden Lancaster 6 Canalscape 7 Chess genius 8 Bicycle

Flew to Amsterdam late on Sunday for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Board meeting. Have just signed on for another three years. Some sadness, with a number of Board members coming to the end of their terms, including John Evans (shown on the right in the first photograph above) and Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International. But also a very positive outcome, in that we decided to develop a new round (G4) of the GRI reporting guidelines. With the sort of trends spotlighted in our report for GRI, The Transparent Economy, this seems to me the logical next step.

Nightmare moment when I got to the hotel on Sunday evening – and realised that I had left my Mac laptop in the security tray at Heathrow T4. Elaine and Sam helped track down numbers for Lost Property at Heathrow – and Sam called them first thing on Monday, to be told that they had my lost limb in protective care.

Sam then came out to Heathrow this evening, partly to see of her husband Sanjiev and Griff Rhys Jones off to India, where they are filming. But she also trekked across to T3 to get my computer – and reunited me with it almost as soon as I landed. Not sure whether it’s a symptom of ageing or of tiredness, but this sort of thing has been happening rather more often in recent weeks.

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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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