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Fall in Kew

John Elkington · 25 September 2008 · Leave a Comment

Detail of Regine Hagerdorn's Rosiers Detail of Regine Hagerdorn’s Rosiers  

This week was meant to be something of a break, but I have been working pretty much flat out, with Volans doing a major email out to our contacts around the world – which has had me respnding to hundreds of email replies.  Have also been working on a column for Director magazine, an article I’m co-authoring with Mark Lee and the WEC project.  So this morning Elaine dragged me off to Kew Gardens, to give me a bit of exercise and get some fresh air in my lungs.  And what a wonderful treat it was.

High points included (literally) the new aerial walkway and (aesthetically) the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art.  hadn’t thought I much liked botanical paintings, but there were many  would have gladly grabbed off the walls here and run away with.  Did buy Shirley Sherwood’s book A Passion for Plants, for its reproductions of many of the more recent paintings in the collection.  One of the ones I liked best was by Regne Hagerdorn, Rosiers.  It showed a series of different rose stems — and to my eye looked like a botanical score for some form of music that you would need some form of kinesthesia to hear.

Aerial walkway 1 Aerial walkway 1   Aerial walkway 2 Aerial walkway 2   Chestnut leaf-miner Chestnut leaf-miner   Leaf-miners 2 Leaf-miners 2   Walkway surface Walkway surface   Temperate House Temperate House   Elaine, aerially Elaine, aerially   Walkway Walkway again   Support Support   Elaine and metal tree Elaine and metal tree   Distant walkway Walkway embraces   Fall leaves Fall leaves 1   Shirley Sherwood Shirley Sherwood   Fungi Fungi   Fall leaves 2 Fall leaves 2   Carved stomata Carved stomata   Sculptural version of a tree root Sculptural version of a tree root

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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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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