Our Common Ground
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Sir Ian Cheshire welcomes an expert panel to discuss the interim findings of the RSA’s Food, Farming and Countryside Commission.
Results
Videos & Audio
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Designing Our Futures
Clive Grinyer, past RSA Student Design Awards winner and RSA Design Advisor delivers the keynote address at the 2018 SDA winners ceremony.
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Caroline Lucas on Taking Back Control of our Climate
Daniel Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, reveals the team-building skills behind some of the most effective organisations in the world.
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The Politics Of Climate Change
How can we galvanise renewed political interest in environmental issues to drive bolder action? With Caroline Lucas MP, Leader of the Green Party.
Publications
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As the UK negotiates its future relationship with the European Union and the rest of the world, we face serious questions about the future of our food, farming and countryside.
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Our new climate change report examines the claim that if we want to limit planetary warming to levels deemed acceptable, the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel industry has to be accelerated.
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The Great Recovery team explore the circular economy opportunities associated with the decommissioning of North Sea Oil & Gas assets in our latest report.
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Taking our unique design-focused approach to the circular economy, The RSA Great Recovery partnered with recycling and waste company SUEZ to ask the question: ‘How can we design better systems that will increase rates of ...
Articles & Blogs
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Elliot Kett reflects on the effectiveness of joined-up, local partnerships and the dissonance in landscape scale governance in Cornwall, as part of the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission UK-wide bike tour.
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How does the UK build upon the EAT-Lancet Commission report? The RSA Food, Farming & Countryside Commission and City University’s Food Thinkers Seminars are presenting UK-specific modelling data and convening a panel of expert ...
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This year's World Economic Forum has tabled some interesting ideas. It's a shame they've brought the wrong people to discuss them.
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A guest blog by James Skinner for the Food, Farming & Countryside Commission on alternative financial instruments and strategies that could bring about a fundamental change in farming and food consumption.
Projects
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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 ...
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One of the Citizen Power Peterborough projects, Sustainable Citizenship aimed to encourage, test and support people’s ideas to make green behaviour easier in Peterborough and the city a more sustainable place to live.
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Society needs to address the future of how we consume clothing and use textiles. Fable and Base produces ecologically sound, beautiful hand made textiles and offers workshops and custom kits to help others do the same. ...
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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 ...
Events
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A Sustainable Future for Food, Health and Planet?
Wednesday 20th February 2019
Great Room, RSA House
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.
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Fellow Event
RSA Scotland Fellow-led Borders Network Rural Affairs
Tuesday 19th February 2019
Trinity Centre, Melrose
RSA Fellows resident in the Borders and guests are invited to attend a workshop to consider both some local rural affairs and any possible programme of events for the RSA during 2019.
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Fellow Event
RSA Edinburgh Area: Shaping New Places through the Human-Centred ...
Tuesday 5th February 2019
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, Edinburgh
How can the ‘Smart City’ be imagined as a place for people, where technology is servant, not master? How is the ‘Smart City’ understood by different cities internationally? What models are applied in its application? How ...
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Fellow Event
RSA Rawthmells: Design for Social Innovation in agriculture
Tuesday 29th January 2019
Rawthmells Coffeehouse (RSA House), London
How might we ensure sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices in the UK? Join RSA Rawthmells and Design for Social Innovation to use your skills for good at this one-off interactive evening ...