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John Elkington

A world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development.

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I By IMD

John Elkington · 20 May 2021 · Leave a Comment

Delighted to see my first piece appear in I By IMD, produced by the Swiss business school, IMD.

Julia Hailes & Her Green Life

John Elkington · 17 May 2021 · Leave a Comment

Julia during the Green Consumer’s Supermarket Shopping Guide era, 1989

Astonishing to look back at a key breakthrough moment in my working life, through the lens of Julia Hailes’ experience of the same events. Captured here on YouTube. Startling how much things have changed since then, in good ways and bad. But the fight goes on!

Audiobook of Green Swans

John Elkington · 26 April 2021 · Leave a Comment

The buttons here are not clickable – to get the audiobook, click on the link below.

For more information, click here.

TEDxISSP

John Elkington · 24 April 2021 · Leave a Comment

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Green Swans Land In Turkey

John Elkington · 22 April 2021 · Leave a Comment

Have done a number of virtual events in Turkey this year, one rest of which was this profile in Oksijen. My thanks to Melis Alphan. Otherwise I continue to whizz around the world. Today, Earth Day 2021, started out in Japan, then back to London, then United Arab Emirates, then London, then US for the first time, and after coming back to London, off to California for a last call. A new order that would have been clinically impossible before COVID-19 gave virtual presence platforms a shot in the arm.

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Introduction

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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