With the publication of The Environmental Entrepreneur^® in 1992, John Thompson wrote the book on “environmental enterprise.” All that time later, the business community just now catches up.

John was way ahead of his time with environmental problem-solving. His insights came from a long and accomplished career as a freelance business and financial writer. Over the years, he has written a million words for scores of clients including IBM, Coca-Cola USA, Southern Company, Georgia Power Co., AFLAC, Equifax, Randstad North America and Parents, Time, and Money magazines.

But the environment worried him, and it changed the trajectory of his career. The only realistic solution to sweeping ecological decline is the conversion of consumer tastes to environmentally-intelligent technologies, products, services, processes and practices. Of that, he was sure. The upshot would be business expansion, job growth, wealth accumulation, tax creation and an extension of the good life here on earth far into the future.

For most of 25 years, John labored to develop the methodology of consumer-driven, market-based environmental problem-solving, whatever the cause. In 2011, he poured this knowledge into a comprehensive educational initiative to prepare tomorrow’s leaders for the environmental challenges they will face upon graduation from college and high school.

In 2005, John was selected a CDC Knight Journalism Fellow and spent three months at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exploring connections between public health and environmental decline. He has been honored by Communication Arts magazine for excellence in annual report writing and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for excellence in feature writing.

Other books to John’s credit include Don’t Get a Job, Get a Life! The New Way to Work and Live by Erik Vonk, ghostwritten by John Thompson (Randstad, 2001); Manage to the Individual/If you want to know how, ASK! by Thad Green, Ph.D., and William J. Barkley, ghostwritten by John Thompson (Belief System Institute, 1995) and The Belief System/The Secret To Motivation and Improved Performance by Thad Green, Ph.D., and Merwyn Hayes, Ph.D., ghostwritten by John Thompson (Beechwood Press, 1994).

In the mid-1990s, he was a regular columnist for Prospects magazine, a Hong Kong-based publication devoted to sustainable development in the “Pacific Rim” nations of Asia. Earlier in his career, John published Entrepreneur Spirit Magazine, served as a paid stringer for Time and Money magazines and wrote annual report copy, marketing material, trade magazine articles and speeches for a variety of Fortune 500 firms. 

Links to Sample Material

• The Epic Merger: Ecology & Entrepreneurship.” Speech by John Thompson, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, February 29, 2012. http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/news/speaker-videos#sustainability
• Rising Seas Take From Poor and Rich.” Article by John Thompson, Living Green Online Magazine, December 2010. http://livinggreenmag.com/2012/01/24/climate-change/rising-seas-take-from-poor-and-rich-a-coastal-view-of-climate-change/
• Finding the Profit in Environmental Solutions.” Article by John Thompson, Living Green Online Magazine, January 2011. http://livinggreenmag.com/2013/01/16/green-business/finding-the-profit-in-environmental-solutions/
• Poison in the Air: the Dangers of Carbon Monoxide.” Article by John Thompson, Parents Magazine, September 2007. http://www.parents.com/kids/safety/other-safety-issues/poison-in-the-air-the-dangers-of-carbon-monoxide/

Other samples provided upon request