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Green Swans Land In Barnes

John Elkington · 16 June 2020 · Leave a Comment

With Nicola (Godden) and one of the new Green Swan trophies in our kitchen …
… and under our venerable apple tree

The road to getting the first trio of Green Swan Awards to their awardees has been slow and complicated. But Nicola brought her son Will, his partner Bee (who took the photos above) and her son Albin. She also brought the latest two trophies more or less direct from the Talos foundry, so I can now affix the nameplates and send them out at last. The new ones are a brighter green, which I very much prefer.

Amazing how much pleasure can come from good company, something we – or at least I – have been starved of for months. Nicola went home and, apparently, then flew her plane to the south coast with her daughter, no other planes in the sky.

Am feeling slightly punch-drunk, meanwhile, though did a particularly jolly Zoominar yesterday with the UN Global Compact team – and a range of social intrapreneurs from around the world. Maggie du Pree – who coined the term social entrepreneur – when we were working on a project together at SustainAbility – was part of the webinar, dialling in from Portland, Oregon. The spirit was caught in this photo:

UNGC SDG Future Lab session in progress

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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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