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John Elkington

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A View From The Hall of Fame

John Elkington · 2 July 2020 · Leave a Comment

Latest podcast to appear is one I did way back on May 1st with Fabian Sack, President of the International Society for Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) – in whose Hall of Fame I am privileged to find myself. He was in locked down Sydney, me in locked down London – the wonders of Zoom.

A Non-Violent Ahimsa Conversation With Rajni Bakshi

John Elkington · 28 June 2020 · Leave a Comment

Rajni Bakshi, the Indian journalist and champion of Gandhian values and a long-standing friend, has been recording a series of conversations on non-violence. Here is the one she did with me earlier this month. Took me some places I don’t usually – or at least often – go in interviews.

Four Green Swans

John Elkington · 27 June 2020 · Leave a Comment

Four Green Swans on the kitchen counter in Barnes
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Nicola (Godden) came to a moderately socially distanced lunch today – and to hand over two more Green Swans, more or less fresh from the foundry. Now to attach the name tags and send. Before they winged their way, though, I thought it worth taking a photo or two of the quartet.

Treadgold Podcast

John Elkington · 25 June 2020 · Leave a Comment

The link to this Good Future podcast came through yesterday. I recorded it with John Treadgold in Australia on 9 June – and am very happy with the way it turned out. John asked some excellent provocative questions. A good distillation of what’s currently in my brain.

Green Swans In Japanese

John Elkington · 24 June 2020 · Leave a Comment

Sustainable Brands have reviewed the book in Japanese, just in case you read Japanese. We are also now negotiating foreign rights in countries like Brazil, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Romania and South Korea.

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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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