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John Elkington

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Unpublished Writing

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Elaine and I at St Hilarion Castle, above Kyrenia, Cyprus, one of my existential anchor points 

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Two lizards, the Moon and the ruins of a basilica on the North coast of Cyprus

Some writing I have done was never intended to be formally published, instead being posted on websites or circulated to networks and friends. But some that was intended to be published, wasn’t. My filing cabinets are full of projects that never quite took off. A book on the possible applications of genetic engineering to the field of aphrodisiacs, a book on rust, a book on bridges, a book on blood, a couple of novels. The Good Afterlife Guide, which I began in the mid-1990s and got much of the way through, until I was told I was going to be the subject of a universal fatwah. And then there were reports of trips made. Of these, the one on the trip that Elaine and I made to Syria in 2002 is probably my favourite, though that on Cyprus (in 2005) ran a very close second.

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Mudlark

2 February 2023

Walking home across Waterloo Bridge this evening, with Chinese students all around, I caught sight of this mudlark on the Thames foreshore, in front of the South Bank complex. One of those moments.

Manic Tuesday

31 January 2023

Have rather fallen out of the habit of posting here, partly because have been finishing off the new book, Running Up The Down Escalator, and partly because 2023 has taken off like a rocket. Today was somewhat typical in that respect, with Elaine reminding me at 06.30 that I should be at a Pi Capital […]

We Are What We Read

21 December 2022

We are what we read, they say, and sometimes it’s true. Just notified about a new series of Neste interviews on what we read. Mine here: https://lnkd.in/ePWHkEWw. Marcius Extavour here: https://lnkd.in/eiqSQcpQ. And Geoffrey Weston‘s here: https://lnkd.in/eQM3dUcq. All members of the Neste advisory council on sustainability and new markets, which I chair. Happy holidays and new years, all.

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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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