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Futerrans, Another TEST and a Ghost Bike

John Elkington · 10 April 2015 · Leave a Comment

Bliss by Mount Pleasant
Bliss by Mount Pleasant
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I do too, now and then: on a wall in Futerra offices
Shoes
Shoes: Natalya, Sam and Soli
Arriving at Imperial College for The Ecological Sequestration Trust session
Arriving at Imperial College for The Ecological Sequestration Trust session
Have always been an aerospace fan: inside Imperial College
Have always been an aerospace fan: inside Imperial College
Ghost bike around the corner from the Volans office
Ghost bike around the corner from the Volans office

Across with Sam to see Futerra near Mount Pleasant, where we had a wonderful session with Soli (Townsend) and Natalya (Sverjensky). Then back to imperial College, where I had a Trustees session with Peter Head and The Ecological Sequestration Trust (TEST). I seem to have come full circle, with my first proper job, from 1974 to 1978, having been with another TEST, John Roberts’ Transport & Environment Studies.

On the way back to Volans, I passed the new ghost bike nearby. Have been sorely conflicted since my last accident, incurred avoiding a Russian family in Oxford Street. My elbow is still giving me a fair amount of grief six months later, but I miss the experience of open-air London and the incidental exercise. Was also depressed to hear that my favourite bike shop in London, Holdsworth‘s in Putney, had closed some time back. But have a sense that I will get back into the fray at some point …

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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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