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Interview With Oxygen Conservation

John Elkington · 3 April 2025 · Leave a Comment

It’s spectacularly long, but this interview with Rich Stockdale of Oxygen Conservation neatly captures the essence of my thinking and careering life to date: https://www.oxygenconservation.com/podcast/e101-john-elkington/

Sacha Dench on BBC Radio 4

John Elkington · 14 March 2025 · Leave a Comment

Sacha Dench, one of my heroes – and friends, on BBC4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028v02

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

My Brainchildren Are Out There

John Elkington · 4 March 2025 · Leave a Comment

Source: Joshua Domb

I have always enjoyed getting photographs from people showing my books in unlikely places around there world, including The Power of Unreasonable People (I think it was) in a wayside book shrine in the Norwegian fjords, and Sun Traps in the Himalayas. Was reminded of that today when I received this photo from lawyer Joshua Domb, who had spotted The Zeronauts in an Avon bookshelf.

Meanwhile, I am busily working on my new website for Countercurrent, on the new book, and on a series of four posts for my Rewilding Markets Substack channel on why we now need to retune our mindsets – and how we can do so. The first one was posted yesterday, the second goes out around midday today, before I head off to do a speech at Cranfield University.

Video Of Barnes Back In 1974

John Elkington · 24 February 2025 · Leave a Comment

Elaine asked me this evening to track down once again a video of Barnes she saw years ago, taken by John McCready in 1974. Last posted here in 2020. Extraordinary to look back and see that has changed – and what not. We arrived the following year, so 2025 marks our 50th year here.

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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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