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Another Week Blurs By

John Elkington · 21 November 2010 · Leave a Comment

Dublin, among other places

W2 Carbon Leapfrog and IUCN conference W3 Dublin: the new Samuel Beckett Bridge W4 And in daylight W5 Conference Centre W6 Another electric car W7 Inside out view W8 Ditto W9 Emergent uniform at SustainAbility? W10 Chris shoots Gary W11 Later W12 Frances and Sam W13 Holland Park W14 Anish Kapoorscape

A bit of a blur of a week, signing contract for the new book, a panel discussion to launch Unilever’s new Sustainable Living Plan, chaired a panel session at the IUCN/Carbon Leapfrog conference, a trip to Dublin with flights horribly scrambled by fog at Heathrow, a Board meeting at SustainAbility, and – today – Hamlet at the National Theatre, with Rory Kinnear. Went with Carys and Mike Cooper. Quite unbelievably good. I understood the play for the first time. And the AK47s made a bunch more sense than cutlasses. Feeling like sleeping, but here comes another week; this time Rome, I think.

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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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