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Media

 

Filmed in Sao Paolo, 2009

Globonews TV interview in São Paulo, 2009

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Sandwiched between Jochen Zeitz and Richard Branson, I chair London online launch of The B Team, 2013

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Photo for a Brazilian business magazine, taken in 2007 (photo: Paulo Varella, Photoart)

Media coverage of our work goes in waves. It also happens in different parts of the world at different times. We have been poor over the years at capturing the coverage as it happens, because of the sheer volume, though there are several boards in the Volans office where the latest media coverage is displayed. The striking thing is how many languages are featured. And a more up-to-date listing of the articles we do ourselves can be found on the Volans website, here.

Much of the media coverage of our thinking and work has been self-generated, as for example in my first blog for Huffington Post in 2014.

For a sense of the sort of wider media coverage we have had in recent years, here are some filmed interviews that surfaced in our first trawl for this website:

  • Livemint.com, Mumbai, India, 2014
  • India CSR, India, 2013
  • Verantwortung Zukunft, Munich, Germany, 2013
  • Bayer MaterialScience, London, UK, 2013
  • Sky Business News/Centre for Social impact, Australia, 2010
  • Wayne Visser interviews, Athens, Greece, 2010
  • Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership, interview by Wayne Visser on aspects of our evolving thought leadership:
  • The Economist, London, UK, 2009
  • Harvard Business Publishing, Watertown, MA, USA, 2008
  • Cranfield University School of Management, Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, 2008
  • Valor Econômico, Brazil, 2008

In terms of online interviews and other forms of coverage, here is a small sample:

  • Skoll World Forum ‘Future-proofing Business’ session, Oxford, 2014
  • Interface ‘Cut the Fluff’, 2013
  • Guardian Sustainable Business Awards, tribute to Ray Anderson of Interface, 2012
  • Positive Luxury Q&A, 2012
  • Mother Jones, 2008

This is a section of the website that will be evolved in future.

Sp(r)outing: A cartoon from a Marketing Week article in 1989

Sp(r)outing: A cartoon from a Marketing Week article in 1989
On Screen: Interviewed by Paul Michelman at Harvard Business School Press, 2007

On Screen: Interviewed by Paul Michelman at Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Treed: Section of a cartoon that appeared with a long (and not always favourable) profile of me in the Wall Street Journal Europe

Treed: Section of a cartoon that appeared in the 1990s with a long (and not always favourable) profile of me in the Wall Street Journal Europe, not then a great champion of the sustainability agenda

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Greta And Swifts

15 January 2021

Lovely to see a new Swedish postage stamp featuring Greta Thunberg and five of my favourite birds, swifts. Thanks to Edward Mayer of Swift-Conservation.org for flagging.

Positive Luxury

12 January 2021

My foreword to the Positive Luxury 2021 Predictions Report can be found on page 4.

And Now Am In Farmers Weekly

8 January 2021

Gave the Frank Parkinson Lecture at the Oxford Farming Conference yesterday – and here’s the coverage in Farmers Weekly. Was meant to be on BBC Radio 1 too, but that got wiped out by Trump-induced attack on the US Capitol. I know I predicted a 12-15 year “U-Bend” in history in Green Swans, but this […]

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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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