This chapter summarises key insights from the main contributions to this volume, putting them in conversation with social science themes related to sustainable transformation and innovation pathways. It outlines a framework for green innovation which brings together social science concepts of system transformation for sustainable futures with concepts informed by the work of the Kakishibu community. This framework underlines the need to simultaneously consider and integrate modes of knowing nature, modes of working to transform nature, and modes of living with nature within innovation paradigms. Such a three-way approach is essential for overcoming the limits of innovation pathways centred primarily on technological breakthroughs without due consideration of their environmental and social burdens. This technology-centred approach threatens to perpetuate patterns of resource over-use to the exclusion of tackling industrial and societal cultures of consumption. For Kakishibu, a green innovation framework centred on modes of knowing, working, and living highlights the limits of focusing solely on ways of modifying a traditional material to improve its properties. An innovation pathway that only prioritises the aspiration to reproduce the qualities of petrochemical plastic is a dead-end in this regard. A responsible approach to innovating with Kakishibu instead requires the transformation of cultural expectations in industry, research, and society towards a future in which technological ingenuity is devoted equally to maintenance, repair and, overall, to making do.