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Founders Forum, Cranfield, Imperial

John Elkington · 10 March 2025 · Leave a Comment

March has been slightly mad, with my hareing too and fro across the country. And the coming week looks set to be busier still. Among speaking gigs were a Founders Forum event, “Landed,” on 27th February; a Cranfield University event on 4th March; a WWF event spotlighting their Nature-based Solutions Accelerator at Insurance Hall on 5th March; an Imperial event soft-launching their new School of Convergence Science on the same day; an Andy Haldane breakfast with Pi Capital on 6th March; and a dinner, after visiting the Somerset House Soil exhibition, with Nathan and Susannah Furr on the same day.

Spotted while walking to the Barbican for Founders Forum event
On stage with Indy Johar and Cindy Forde
Ditto
On stage at Cranfield University
Some of the audience
Book signing for Ticking Sharks after the event, with a long line patiently waiting to the left
En route to keynote the soft launch off Imperial College’s new School of Convergence Science
Walking back to Somerset House after Andy Haldane’s Pi Capital breakfast in Knightsbridge
These Asian girls took the process as seriously as if it was an exam
I particularly liked this comment
It has been a delightfully sunny week, as shown by this Barnes postbox

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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.

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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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