Call it a salon for the social innovation set: The Hub King’s Cross is an informal new London club designed to inspire brainstorming among charitable, political, and corporate do-gooders. “The scale and complexity of world problems is such that no single school of thought can tackle these issues alone,” explains cofounder Jonathan Robinson. Anyone can visit the Hub, housed in a renovated Edwardian building near King’s Cross train station. But those who pay £30 gain entrée to meeting and work space (with plasma screens and writable glass); events such as debates, lectures, exhibitions, dinners, and film nights; an organic, fair-trade, and locally sourced café and bar; and the Hub’s three sister locations in Islington, a borough of London; Bristol, England; and Johannesburg. Twelve more Hubs will open soon in major cities around the globe, because “there’s no shortage of good ideas for a radically better world,” says Robinson.
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