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Felt rocks fly at Volans

John Elkington · 19 September 2008 · Leave a Comment

Felt rocks Felt rocks

Sam unpacked a box that arrived from SustainAbility’s US team today – and proved to contain, within some extraordinary concertina packaging, 21 coloured felt pebbles or rocks. This was in celebration of the 21 years I had spent at SustainAbility before launching Volans, in which SustainAbility now has a 10% stake. A dangerous gift. Soon the Volans team were attracting each others’ attention by letting fly with felt missives.

The final image of the trio below surfaced when I told Charmian about my serendipitous encounter with Tom Pakenham of Green Tomato Cars on my way home from the ACME Climate Change Campaign event. She promptly puled out a scrap of paper that she had torn from a copy of the Volans Flyer, to capture a set of contact details at the same event. And the world that had come with the tear was Serendipity.

Sam unwraps the rocks Far from blue: Sam unwraps rocks   Charmian's jelly beans Charmian’s jelly beans have drifted my way   Serendipity, again Serendipity, again

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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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