Journal

Delighted to appear in ‘The New Ism’, a podcast by social entrepreneur superstar Mel Young and Alex Matthews. My only regret in the podcast‘s 47 minutes running time is that I said that the optical experiments in Hannover mentioned by Thomas Kuhn were from the 18th century – when I meant 19th. But what’s a century between friends?

Across to Köln with Louse (Kjellerup Roper) and Richard (Roberts) for a stunning handover ceremony  between former Covestro CEO Patrick Thomas and incoming CEO Markus Steilemann.

Stonkingly hot evening in converted warehouse, but wonderful fireworks – and a great session the following morning with Eric Bischof and Burcu Unal of Covestro. I first met Burcu in Shanghai a few weeks ago, with the late lamented Richard Northcote.

Much saddened to hear yesterday from Tom Burke of the death of Tessa Tennant on Saturday. We really did all squeak it in under the wire with the celebration of her lifetime achievement award on 28 June, courtesy of Aviva.

More details on the evening can be found here.

The videos are great – and I get to say a couple of things in the middle one, ‘Highlights from the Video Corner’.

In one way or another, all of us were saying the same thing. We loved Tessa, we deeply wish she had been with us longer, but we feel deeply privileged to have known her – in my case since the days when the Green Alliance was still in Chandos Place.

Also served on her advisory board back in the day at the Merlin Ecology Fund and NPI.

Very keen to help with the world’s first sculpture symbolising the transformative power of green finance.

GreenBiz just published my latest blog as part of The Elkington Report, this time reviewing the worldwide reactions to the Harvard Business Review post I did – proposing a product recall for the Triple Bottom Line.

Across to Google’s DeepMind’s 6 Pancras Square HQ for lunch today, with Jerry Connor, husband of a long-ago colleague at SustainAbility, Shelly Fennell. Research for the new book.

Had our lunch in full sun, overlooking King’s Cross. Brilliantly interesting discussions, at least as far as I was concerned, though I suspect that a version of sunstroke contributed to my 5-day migraine a few days later.

Ambulance was called, but had failed to arrive six hours later. So I decided I would prefer to stay in my own bed than in Kingston Hospital, which tried so many ways last time to kill me.