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Berowra Waters

John Elkington · 13 October 2010 · Leave a Comment

1 Linda McCartney hairstyle on a ‘black boy’ – or, in these more PC times, grasstree 2 Berowra 1 3 Berowra 2 4 Andrea sitting in a naturally air-conditioned nook 5 Honeycomb rock 6 Interesting grain 7 Ant with prey 8 Andrea inspects interesting grain 9 Berowra Marina 10 Spidered mirror 11 Erin’s headwear, my arm – shot backwards

We took a train this morning to Beecroft, where Andrea (Spencer-Cooke) now lives with her family, and then she drove us out into the countryside – where we took a walk alongside Berowra Waters and then ate a truly delicious al fresco that she had prepared on the dock at the nearby marina.

Andrea was a colleague and Muse during the time I was developing my thinking around the triple bottom line, in the early 1990s.  She is now part of One Stone Advisors, a networked consultancy whose name refers back to a conference we did as a joint venture between SustainAbility and The Environment Foundation (which I chaired then – and still do, though it’s now The Foundation for Democracy & Sustainable Development) almost fifteen years ago, introducing the triple bottom line, and called ‘Three Birds, One Stone’.

Later in the day we headed back to pick up her children, Erin and Cameron, and then went home with them for tea. Elaine saw on of their water dragons in the garden, but I missed it – though I did see some of Andrea’s photos on her Mac. Impressed that they can stay underwater for 90 minutes – but was even more impressed by Erin’s impromptu headgear that accompanied us to the station when the time came to leave.

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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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