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Guildhall, Fishmongers’ Hall, Manchester, Science Museum

John Elkington · 29 January 2015 · Leave a Comment

Churchill's Scientists

In the past 48 hours, I have been at the Guildhall for the CISL/Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Award (I did a session for the finalists at Churchill College, Cambridge, last year); then a fascinating Sustainable Eel Group session yesterday morning at Fishmongers’ Hall; next, yesterday evening, I was up in Manchester, doing another session with the UK Green Building Council; then this evening it was a private view at the Science Museum of the new Churchill’s Scientists exhibition. And along the way a series of riveting conversations covering everything from plastic pollution (with Richard Northcote of Bayer MaterialScience today) of the oceans through solar energy (with Mary Archer this evening) to the Atlantic convoys (with someone whose uncle died on one of them). Brain fizzing.

Churchill's Scientists 2: model of Bleriot's plane
Churchill’s Scientists: model of Bleriot’s plane
Science Museum: cycling ceiling
Science Museum: cycling ceiling

 

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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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