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A delightful visit to see the Elkingtons of Little Rissington on 3-4 December, dropping in to seer the Palmers of Icomb at the same time. Then off to Paris for several days via the Eurostar for a meeting of the EcoVadis Scientific Committee: fascinating. But Paris wreathed in pollution, with alternate number plates banned for the day.

Otherwise the past couple of weeks have been a bit of a blizzard, with a torrent of meetings, flurries of Skype calls, various planning sessions for 2017, the landing by Volans of a very major and wonderful project for next year, the spinning out of a fair few blogs, and a progressive working through of a series of books.

They have included Robert Harris’s Conclave (with a wonderful sting in its tail) and now Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life & Others, which in clues the Story of Your Life story that seeded the new film Arrival, which we saw and I immensely liked last week.

Have been feeling a bit low and unwell, but the Hüman After All session on Wdnesday in Dalston, for our joint program with the UN Global Compact, Project Breakthrough, was a real pick-me-up.

HHA have an intriguing new office, on top of an old printing works. Then back to ICAEW to listen to Mark Carney – see previous post.

Other aspects of the week have included a session on Thursday with Covestro and SystemIQ at the latter’s WeWork offices.

Then today, Saturday, Elaine and I took Fernando Nilo (of Chile’s Recycla) and his wife to lunch at the Great Court Restaurant high up in the British Museum. Then sped them around the Sunken Cities exhibition, my third time, before getting in a taxi with them to guide them across to Clarence House.

Copies of ‘Breakthrough Business Models’ await delegates

Up early to catch a train across to Oxford for the 2016 EMERGE Conference, which I was keynoting – in memory of my fired and colleague Pamela Hartigan. Was delighted to see copies of our latest report, Breakthrough Business Models waiting for the delegates at their places in the Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, met some interesting people, did a lunchtime roundtable, and then scooted back to London.

Here’s a link to my latest GreenBiz column on the recent Commonwealth Secretariat climate change event I attended – and on falling in love in a car park.

Also published today, here’s a Fast Company/Co-Exist review of our work at Volans.

Sent a link today to a short video capturing some of the essence of this year’s Business for Peace Summit in Oslo. In the middle of it all I’m captured saying that if I have a skill, it’s probably listening – “and, sometimes, remembering what I’ve been told.” Hope that’s both true and lasts.