Your invitation to join a webinar with GlobeScan, ERM and Volans highlighting the results of the 2026 Sustainability at a Crossroads survey.

A look at how the market handles the strangest crustacean I’ve come across.

Asia, smart regulation and AI are not three separate stories. Indeed, they imply a single question: whose standards will we be living under by 2037?

Why it’s time to think in terms of 2037 as a decade-long time horizon from 2027.

I experimented with a Virtual Youth Advisory Board. Here’s the case for and against.

Why it’s bad luck to ignore the field’s sometimes clashing cultures

Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.

For decades, we were told to think outside the box. Then a regulator drew a smaller one—and something interesting happened in the world of packaging.

On recruiting, keeping and unleashing the radicals every business now needs.

Gaia and I track market Bulls, Bears and Beavers

Over 500 sustainability experts have already contributed — will you add your voice?

What might be the market value of lighter, higher albedo and cooler cities?

A light trap in the Sussex Downs sets me thinking about regeneration

The Responsible Commodities Facility aims to rewire the economics of soy in Brazil’s Cerrado

Learning from Henry the Navigator and Nobel Prize-winning economist Rob Engle

A leading Norwegian renewable energy company aims to onboard nature

How long will it be before someone automates stakeholder engagement?

An afternoon afloat with Jørgen Randers and Jan-Olaf Willums

A deep time inside story from the 100-year Future Library project

Visiting Geneva for a Lenovo 360 Circle summit reminded me of an early mentor—and his thinking about growth, prosperity and ecodisasters.

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Are farmers—and are we—ready for Minimum Viable Systems?

What Pacific Wayfinders — and the Chelsea Flower Show — Can Teach Our GPS-Dependent World

The inevitable rise of “hard” sustainability in the wake of the Third Gulf War

What mobile and monumental sculptures say about tomorrow’s markets for system change

A 100th birthday spotlights an international treasure - and the need for a seismic market response

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Imagine a future Lincoln freeing Nature rather than America’s slaves

One warship, two books and a humungous civilizational blind spot

How can we tell if regenerators are really regenerating?

The latest annual letters from the CEOs of BlackRock and Generation Investment Management are worth reading alongside each other

A new study suggests solutions to Europe’s growing competitiveness challenge.

The Jester’s power was never really about jokes.

The Jester’s power was never really about jokes.

Notes from a mind-bending retreat in a medieval time machine

Some thoughts triggered by the excellent EcoVadis SUSTAIN 2026 conference

Sharing (and testing) my early thinking around a possible new initiative, NAUTILUS.

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Let’s dig deeper into what links time and sustainability

History is full of examples of where we left it too late—so any lessons learned?

If markets are stories, what are tomorrow's stories?

A guardian of yesterday’s limits has things to tell us today

In the final part this 3-part series, I explore an idea that is buzzing around my head

In part 2 of this 3-part series, we ask what we can learn from AI “stacks”

Part 1 of a 3-part series on the future of sustainability - details at foot of this article.