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Innovation Arts

John Elkington · 12 June 2015 · Leave a Comment

Innvertebrate incubator
Innvertebrate (sic) incubator
Dilemma game from Innovation Arts
Dilemma game from Innovation Arts
David and Sam in the zone
David and Sam in the zone

A busyish week, with things like the Zouk Capital AGM and a Social Stock Exchange Board meeting. This afternoon, was early for a meeting with David Christie at Innovation Arts, who we are discussing next stage of our Breakthrough Program with.

So walked around, and sat for a while in, nearby Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Founded in the Plague Year of 1665, what a wonderful place! Full of the spirit of non-conformism, being the last resting place of the likes of William Blake, Daniel Defoe (whose A Journal of the Plague Year would be published in 1722) and John Bunyan, among many others.

On way out of the cemetery, I caught sight of the ‘Innvertebrate’ home for wayward (or at least otherwise homeless) insects – and loved the idea.

 

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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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