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Garden Party

John Elkington · 22 July 2016 · Leave a Comment

It begins - with apologies to those the iPhone Panorama turns into Shrek lookalikes
It begins – with apologies to those the iPhone Panorama distorts
The lights go up
The light goes down, lights go up

Out to Heathrow for a filmed interview with Covestro CEO Patrick Thomas, as part of our evolving Project Breakthrough for the UN Global Compact. Our Atlas of the Future friends are fielding a 2-camera team, which is wonderful.

Patrick was brilliant, Richard (Johnson) doing the interview, and Richard (Northcote) updating us on his adventures as part of the support tea for the Solar Impulse 2. Then I was interviewed – and then Richard J and I headed back to Bloomsbury for our planned Garden Party, with rain thumping down as we left the Heathrow Express.

To start with, people crowded into our office space, which was nice as it gave me a chance to have a proper sit-down chat with people like Hannah Jones of Nike and her wonderful son. I still treasure the bloodied, axe-dented Crusader figure he gifted me a few years back.

Then we moved out into the garden – and the numbers continued to grow. Lovely evening, great spirit, and nice wines too, thanks to Jacqueline (Lim). Elaine and I stayed way later than we intended, my exit facilitated by Amanda (Feldman) offering to stand in for me when it came to the tidying away.

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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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