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Blue Earth Summit 2023

John Elkington · 11 October 2023 · Leave a Comment

Kresse Wesling
Kresse and I
Juliet Davenport and Andres Roberts
Andres

My first involvement in the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol today, where I chaired a panel session on the theme: ‘Is Regenerative Business Possible?’ My kick-off comment was yes, but the real challenge is how you bring it to scale. My panellists were Kresse Wesling of Elvis & Kresse, Good Energy founder Juliet Davenport, and Andres Roberts of the Bio-Leadership Project. Bit of a scamper with time constraints, but some great questions from the audience – and great feedback afterwards.

Evening before I had walked across from the hotel to Clifton for a dinner with Julia Hailes, Jeremy Bristol, Amanda Aitchison, Anna Guyer and others. Great fun and intriguing peek of the masts of the SS Great Britain below. This evening it was a dinner at the Coppa Club in Clifton, with the likes of Julia, Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson (the Futurenauts), The Wave’s Nice Hounsfield, and explorers Belinda Kirk and Roz Savage.

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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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