Regenerative Economies & Green Swans, with John Elkington
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2022-03-29

John Elkington is my guest on Episode 155 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley. 

John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable capitalism, a bestselling author, and serial entrepreneur. John is the founder and chief pollinator at Volans, which works with leaders to make sense of the emergent future to unlock tomorrow’s market value.

Volans tackles some of the world's most challenging problems, helping key actors expand their focus from the responsibility agenda through resilience to regeneration. Much of the work is at Board or C-suite level. John's thought leadership is evident in ongoing Volans Inquiries including Project Breakthrough, Tomorrow’s Capitalism Inquiry, and the Green Swans Observatory.

John has helped create and incubate movements including the global sustainability movement and powerfully shaped initiatives like the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, the Global Reporting Initiative, and B Lab UK. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002 to 2008. And in 2009, he was named fourth in an international survey of top 100 CSR leaders, after Al Gore, Barack Obama, and the late Anita Roddick. 

John has addressed over 1,000 conferences globally and served on over 80 boards and advisory boards. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, the latest being Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.

In 2021, John won the prestigious World Sustainability Award. 

https://johnelkington.com/
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https://volans.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/volans/
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https://medium.com/@volansjohn
https://theobservatory.volans.com/
https://capitalinstitute.org/course-introduction-regenerative-economics/

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00:00 - Regenerative Economies & Green Swans
00:14 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest John Elkington on Episode 155 with Marc Buckley
03:30 - John’s drive to work with sustainability
04:48 - The World Sustainability Award 
05:18 - The Triple bottom line recall and replacement 2018 People, Planet and Profit
18:00 - Regenerative Capitalism - what is it?
24:50 - World's best minds and leaders in sustainability
28:10 - The dynamics of new frameworks
32:00 - Capital Institute course in Regenerative Economics
37:05 - A shift of paradigm - Thomas Kuhn 
41:08 - The Web of Meaning - Jeremy Lent on Inside Ideas episode
42:10 - Recommendations for education 
48:37 - Does humanity forget big history?
54:52 - Rethink X view on 2030 https://www.rethinkx.com
46:36 - Civilisation frameworks and models
1:04:58 - An underlying rhythm
1:07:14 - The Green Swan - takeaways from John
1:11:52 - The Sustainable Development Goals - change goals
1:17:24 - What does a world that works for everyone looks like for you?