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Perhaps the most well-known face in the RSA Green Room this week was former BBC man in Baghdad, Rageh Omaar.

Rageh became a Fellow six months or so ago and revealed to us that the RSA is now like a second home for him in London. Rageh's favourite spot in the House is the Fellows library. One of our best-kept secrets (er, oops - maybe not now!) the library has a fantastic contemporary collection and is an oasis of calm for RSA staff and visitors alike.

In the lively Q&A session following his talk, Rageh was upbeat about current state of multiethnic relations in the UK. Religious tolerance was the theme of Asma Jahangir's RSA Amnesty lecture in Oxford the previous evening. Asma had "started the week" on Radio 4 debating the difficult politics of the West and the Muslim world, post-9/11, with Martin Amis.

Next challenge for the events team - to get Martin Amis into the RSA Green Room... we'll keep you posted on that one!

• Steve Nimmons - 05 Jun 2008 1:48pm

  I attended the “Question Time on Sustainable Design and Development” on Wednesday evening and found the discussions very interesting. Griff Rhys Jones made an excellent chairman, combining effervescence, levity and intellectualism with enviable ease. There seemed to be ‘scant’ agreement about the impact of personal ‘pro-social’ activity in relation to carbon off-setting and although we might all have a little chuckle at personal wind turbines or solar panels as the latest self-righteous housing adornments, it is as little too easy to just reject social responsibility in relation to the environment as something of a fashion statement of the liberal middle class. I was subsequently very encouraged to hear that Atos Origin (my employer) has announced a project with the RSA “the first ever trial to enable real-time calculations of personal carbon emissions” and how this relates to the RSA’s CarbonDaq trading platform. I wonder if you could provide some additional insight into this and the overarching work of the RSA’s CarbonLimited project?

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