Stewart Brand's latest book had me thinking about maintenance again, from the smallest things out to the planet itself. Highly recommended. On Maintaining Motorcycles and Planets: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
How Europe could green-light competitive growth. Pricing in the Planet: Europe’s Opportunity. open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
What roles for the Fool, the Jester and the Trickster in the modern world? Playing With Fools In Muncaster Castle open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
Some thoughts on the implications of AI for those who make a living by sharing insights, prompted by the 2026 EcoVadis SUSTAIN event in Paris: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
How to travel into Deep Time without a Time Machine, a Tardis? The world’s first Deep Time travel agency? open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
Looking forward to taking part in this free webinar on "Responsible Management Education in an Age of Stress" and organised by @AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the global standard-setting body for business education:
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A question that has been on my mind, increasingly, if case you have the time: johnelkington.substack.com/p/so-whats-t...
If markets are stories, what are tomorrow's stories and who is telling them? johnelkington.substack.com/p/evolving-n...
The concrete ruins will be quite something, too. Enduring, if not wildly aesthetic. Good roosting for feral dogs, pigeons and people? Just returning from Alex to Cairo, having seen the Bibliotecha Alexandrina this morning. Blown away!
Is Nature Our "Living Stack"? Some lessons that the sustainability movement might learn from the world of AI: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
Where is the #sustainability agenda headed next? Part 1 is sparked by the thinking of Pavan Sukhdev; part 2 (Wednesday)where I will consider #Nature as a "living stack," and then part 3 (Friday) concludes with a discussion of the concept of "quantum sustainability: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
I wish this form of education had been available when I was at university: johnelkington.substack.com/p/transformi...
Why copper will be make-or-break for the transition to green economies: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
A visit to the fabled Abbey Road Studios was a welcome opportunity to think through how we might boost the creative sector's contributions to GNP and to #sustainability: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
Some personal reflection on Golden Roads to Sustainability, past, present and future: open.substack.com/pub/johnelki...
What the Aral Sea Tells Us About Impact open.substack.com/pub/johnelki.... Some reflections spurred by a trip earlier this month to Uzbekistan.
Genuinely thrilled to be speaking at the 20th edition of the Women's Forum for the Economy & Society in Paris, which runs 6-7 November, www.womens-forum.com. And particularly delighted to share the stage with Rebecca Henderson.
