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Latest journal entry: Holy Island, Bamburgh and Stormy Environs
How sand came to be in my ears

29 August 2010

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Endless, rusting vigil
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Migration 8 (detail)
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Hurricane control panel (altimeter top right in 6-hole middle frame)
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Hurricane canopy (left) found in garden being used as cloche
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Keep
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Bamburgh shoreline
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Drove across to Holy Island this morning, ploughing through a water-covered causeway, only to arrive in the midst of a downpour - and then decided that a walk in inadequate clothing would lead to death by exposure, deciding to head south to Bamburgh Castle. Somewhat disappointed by the museum element of the Castle, but delighted by being almost borne aloft - indeed almost to Kansas - by thumping winds. My glasses torn from my head.... more >

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Wild Cards for the C-Suite, Fast Company blog series
18 April 2010
The first in a series of seven blogs I produced with Charmian Love on our emerging thinking around the C-Suite agenda. - More >

A New Paradigm for Change, in McKinsey's 'What Matters'
18 April 2010
An essay in which I sketch out the agenda that I'm interested in working on, focusing on changing mindsets, behaviours, cultures and, ultimately, paradigms. - More >

Fast Company blog on cleantech
21 March 2010
Reflections on the recent Clean & Cool Mission to San Francisco and Silicon Valley. - More >

CSR Wire 'To Do' List
14 January 2010
Some things I'm planning to do in 2010. - More >

In the CSR Top 5
03 January 2010
Whatever you think of online polls, a 2009 survey of CSR experts has me in august company. - More >

Latest from Volans

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‘Clean Rich’ vs. ‘Dirty Rich’
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:16:59 - John Elkington
While preparing for a speech I have to do in a couple of weeks in Buenos Aires, to an audience of younger members of multi-generational family businesses from across Latin America, I received a tweet from Vinod Khosla. He spotlighted the growing clash between the ‘Clean Rich’ and the ‘Dirty Rich’, who are under growing - Full entry >

The World That Changes the World
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:21:52 - John Elkington
A new book – The World That Changes the World – will be launched at the Social Innovation Exchange, SMU, Singapore, on 16 September. With a chapter from Volans and other authors including Bill Drayton of Ashoka, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace and social impact experts like Jed Emerson, Geoff Mulgan and Sara Olsen, the book - Full entry >

Pakistan’s floods and entrepreneurship
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:13:44 - Alejandro Litovsky
Social entrepreneurs might seem less relevant in humanitarian emergencies, when the focus of development work shifts to short-term, rapid response and direct assistance. But as international aid struggles to ‘reach the ground’, the business models created by social enterprises might prove to be invaluable intelligence for the Government of Pakistan’s policies and delivery mechanisms, as - Full entry >

Earth Overshoot Day 2010
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:04:19 - John Elkington
Sadly, not a day to celebrate. It has taken our species less than nine months to exhaust our entire ecological budget for 2010, according to one of our favourite social enterprises, the Global Footprint Network. As a result, today is Earth Overshoot Day, the day of the year in which our collective demands on the biosphere exceed - Full entry >

Social Innovation Seems To Be Mainstreaming
Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:55:53 - John Elkington
Two articles this week reinforced my growing impression that the social innovation concept, which Volans spotlighted a couple of years back in our tagline ‘The Business of Social Innovation’, is going mainstream rather faster than I had expected. The first was in The Economist, focusing on how partnerships with social entrepreneurs can help governments to solve - Full entry >

 

 
 
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