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GRI Board in Amsterdam

John Elkington · 5 July 2009 · Leave a Comment

Mervyn and Denise Mervyn and Denise Hollyhocks Hollyhocks

Spent the weekend in Amsterdam, with the Board of the Global Reporting Initiative. Exciting journey to Heathrow, with a driver who started off as the traffic lights turned from red to green, backwards into a line of traffic. And then his satellite navigation system kept telling him to go in the wrong direction, so I had to keep wading in to correct. Then the security people kept putting my bag through the scanner, because they could see a pair of scissors I didn’t know I had – Elaine had tucked them in at some point. Then I was sitting next to a screaming child on the flight out. And so it went. But the dinner on Saturday and the meeting today both went very well.

Lilies bloom at 2BP

John Elkington · 3 July 2009 · Leave a Comment

Seen and scented Seen and scented

Cavalry

John Elkington · 3 July 2009 · Leave a Comment

Cavalry 2 Cavalry 1

Cavalry 1 Cavalry 2 Cavalry 3 Cavalry 3

Spotted and shot as I cycled through Hyde Park to work today.

Mail woman

John Elkington · 30 June 2009 · Leave a Comment

Sam addresses envelopes Sam addresses envelopes

Leif and I

John Elkington · 28 June 2009 · Leave a Comment

Leif Utne and I Leif Utne and I

Helen Spaull of the Noah Foundation took this photo of Leif Utne of Zanby and I in the Big Tent at Tallberg. He and I were part of a mentoring programme this year – perhaps that’s why I look so serious?

 

 

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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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