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Abu Dhabi

John Elkington · 23 January 2011 · Leave a Comment

Flying visit to the Empty Quarter

Nightscape at Qasr al Sarab Nightscape at Qasr al Sarab Dawn Dawn Dawn 2 Dawn 2 Photo shoot after our session Photo shoot after our session Off to get my bags Off to get my bags Interior 1 Interior 1 Interior 2 Interior 2 Interior 3 Interior 3 Leaving 1 Leaving 1 Leaving 2 Leaving 2 Whale skull at Environment Agency Whale skull at Environment Agency Turtle skeleton at Environment Agency Turtle skeleton at Environment Agency

Flew into Abu Dhabi via Sri Lanka, arriving late in the evening, and was then driven a couple of hours out into the Empty Quarter, to the Qasr al Aarab resort. Into bed in the early hours, then up for a session with Government Undersecretaries, alongside a Monitor/Global Business Network team, including Peter Schwartz. There had been fairly heavy rain during the night, which felt slightly strange in the desert. Plumes of black smoke erupted over distant dunes, where generators were being used to power the otherwise, on-the-surface squeaky clean resort. Then back into white SUV and sped back to Abu Dhabi city to do a session with Environment Agency. Then out to airport for flight first to Bahrain and then on to Riyadh.

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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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