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Renowned writer Amitav Ghosh explores the role of stories in understanding our place in the world and reframing how we approach the biggest challenge of our era.
Professor Tim Lang and Helen Browning OBE join an expert panel to discuss the collective action required to transition to a global food system that ensures human health and environmental sustainability.
What does the rest of this century look like for our planet? Viral sensation David Wallace-Wells issues an urgent wake-up call about climate collapse, leading the way for bolder action before it’s too late.
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency will speak about the damaging consequences of climate change and the need for urgent action to protect and improve the environment.
The actions we take in the next ten years to stop ecosystems collapse, recover and regenerate nature and to restore people’s health and wellbeing are now critical. RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission final report. ...
The future, happening now. Stories of change from across the country.
The RSA Food Farming & Countryside Commission have published a book with the stories from their seven-month bike tour of the UK.
A progress report from the RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
More than half of the U.K.’s 408 principal local authorities have now declared a climate emergency, making it one of the fastest growing environmental movements in recent history, and the first country in the world to reach ...
The world (or parts of it) finally seems to be getting its head around the idea that climate change is turning into climate emergency. The words and actions of Greta Thunburg, global school strikes and Extinction Rebellion ...
We need more democracy, not less, to fight climate change. Riley Thorold on the tension between the environment and democracy and plans to hold a citizens' assembly on climate change in the UK.
If organisations want to lead (and be seen to lead) the fight against climate change, making more of virtual meetings is a good place to start.
We are not simply facing the short-term costs of an economic downturn, but the consequences of an ageing, unsustainably consuming and carbon-dependent society. This situation should indeed make governments, businesses ...
The RSA ran the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre from 2005 to 2010 as a catalyst for the insights, imagination and inspirations of artists in response to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our time, with a focus on their ...
A nationwide movement that is reclaiming underused public spaces to grow, sell and distribute local food.
Developed by the East of England Fellowship, this challenge is designed to give mechanical and multi-disciplinary students, undergraduate and apprentices around the world an opportunity to create new designs that harness ...
Wednesday 23rd October 2019 at 16:00
The Oakfield, Chester Zoo (or Online via Zoom)
Join colleagues from the RSA and our Innovative Education Network, Ignite Teaching School Alliance, the University of Manchester and Chester Zoo for an evening of debate and a ‘big education conversation'. We will consider ...
Thursday 24th October 2019 at 13:00
Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House
How can a decarbonised, socially just global system be achieved? Economists Ann Pettifor and Grace Blakeley discuss the radical plans laid out in the Green New Deal.
Wednesday 9th October 2019
Prince Phillip room, RSA House, London
With so many challenges to the world’s sustainability, join the Fellow led Sustainability Network in exploring the opportunities to think and act differently using the Sustainable Development Goals through this interactive ...
Thursday 19th September 2019
Durham Street Auditorium, RSA House
Franziska Brantner of Germany’s Die Grünen party and Jonathan Bartley, co-Leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, discuss routes to placing climate change and sustainability front and centre of European political ...