Open Good, Closed Bad

16 Apr 2010 – Article

John Elkington and Alex Hammer on how social media technology is leveling the playing field in stakeholder engagement.

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The Biodiversity Challenge for Business

2010 is International Year on Biodiversity, but what might it mean for business?

01 Nov 2009 – Article

John Elkington and Jennifer Biringer suggest that biodiversity may soon force its way higher on the corporate sustainability agenda.

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Our Number's Up and It's 350

08 Oct 2009 – Conversation

John Elkington talks to Bill McKibben, the man behind 350.org, the global campaign on climate change.

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The Holy Grail of Integrated Reporting

15 Sep 2009 – Article

A conversation between SustainAbility co-founder John Elkington and Jean-Philippe Renaut, leader SustainAbility’s Engaging Stakeholders Program, on the current state and evolution of 'integrated reporting'.

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Where Next with Social Media? (Época Negócios)

04 Jul 2009 – Article

John Elkington and Alex Hammer explore the implications and likely future of social media in driving new forms of corporate innovation and engagement on sustainability.

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Big Capitalism’s Growing Appetite for Social Enterprise (Nikkei Ecology)

A look at Coca-Cola's new stakes in Innocent Drinks

20 Jun 2009 – Article

Coca-Cola’s embrace of Innocent will be an important test case of the ability of such corporate giants to dance with infinitely smaller partners without trampling them underfoot.

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It’s Time to Google the Future of the Car Industry (Nikkei Ecology)

12 Mar 2009 – Article

Sadly, over time, key parts of the European and American car industries have often displayed thinking and behaviours that speak of denial of any need to adapt and evolve.

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2008: A Year of Extremes (Nikkei Ecology)

Weather, exchange rates, commodity prices and the potential for new economic paradigms

15 Jan 2009 – Article

2008 turned out to be a year of extremes. The question now is whether 2009 will join 1929, 1939 and 1989 in the list of years when a totally new economic and political order began to surface.

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Switch to the Fast Lane (Director)

31 Dec 2008 – Article

Today's business students set tomorrow's ground rules.

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Crunch Time for China (Director)

30 Nov 2008 – Article

China now faces a disorienting triple crunch, and its responses will powerfully shape our world 15 years hence.

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The Future of Oil (China Dialogue)

11 Nov 2008 – Article

New market dynamics created by climate change, geological and geopolitical pressures will transform our hydrocarbon economies, write John Elkington and Gary Kendall.

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We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For (Nikkei Ecology)

Entrepreneurship and strategic alliances in the electrification of transport

11 Nov 2008 – Article

If the business of business is business, it is also to build future markets. One opportunity space attracting growing interest focuses on low-carbon cars.

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Get Used to Virtual Burgers (Director)

30 Oct 2008 – Article

Water shortage is no longer a virtual problem.

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Subprimes et Mélamine, Deux Catastrophes Liées (Le Monde)

18 Oct 2008 – Article

Les chefs d'entreprise exploiteront-ils la crise comme alibi pour justifier l'inaction?

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Time to Tackle Subprime Supply Chains (Le Monde)

A link between the credit crisis and Chinese toxic milk potentially affects us all

18 Oct 2008 – Article

For those business leaders wondering whether they can use the economic crisis as an alibi for inaction or cutting back, our answer is yes and no.

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