John Elkington
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Am in Costa Rica, having keynoted a BAC Credomatic conference today, celebrating the 10th anniversary of their sustainability initiative. Meanwhile our work has been going live today in GreenBiz, my story about our visit last week to Growing Underground, and in Fast Company, the latest in our series of breakthrough blogs – this one on Carbon Productivity.
Rough-and-ready scoops of the BBC Breakfast Programme’s coverage this morning of the portrait being done of several of the precariously few surviving pilots from the Battle Britain.
Artist is Jeremy Houghton – and the main pilot featured in the 3.52 minute sequence is my father Tim Elkington. Part of a sequence that are being worked together, but I think this captures the man today wonderfully well.
As Tim says in the interview, this should be less about the pilots and more about the RAF. And, as it happens, I’m part-way through The Birth of the RAF, 1918 by Richard Overy, with Patrick Bishop’s Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory in my to-read stack.
Delightful visit to Leighton House Museum with Will Rosenzweig, followed by Design Museum and then back to Barnes for lunch at Sonny’s. In total, spent nine hours together – and it felt too short.
On Saturday, I ducked into Barnes Books and picked up a copy of Philip Kerr‘s latest Bernie Gunther novel, Greeks Bearing Gifts – having read his obituaries in recent days. Have bought in hardback, read and adored all 12 previous Gunther books.
Wondered whether 13 was indeed an unlucky number, though a silver lining in the gloom was the news that he had recently handed in a fourteenth Gunther novel.
More on Kerr here.
Having spotted a Financial Times review of the new Light L16 camera last year, I ordered one – and it arrived a few days back. Bigger and heavier than I had expected, but am very much enjoying testing it out – with its 16 lenses. It looks like the compound eye of some form of alien spider. An algorithm combines 10 or more images to produce the final one. More anon.
Very much enjoying The Durrells. Only met Gerry Durrell once, but loved him. This series very much in his spirit, as far as I can see.
Otherwise have spent the Easter break developing the new book – and keeping track of developments at Hill House, where things seem to be on a slightly more even keel.