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Save the the planet, eat the world

Lead Feature

This article highlights the growing influence of AI on society and the environment, focusing on the opportunities and challenges posed by large-scale AI models. Big Tech is at the forefront of the development of broader AI technologies, as well as particular AI climate tools. While promising, this evolution demands significant energy and resources. The piece calls for greater transparency and responsibility in AI’s development, and explores whether the potential benefits to the planet outweigh the environmental risks.

RSA Journal Issue 3 2024: Courageous Climate

Exploring the biggest challenges and boldest ideas – from AI to The Earthshot Prize to environmental art – that could help combat the climate crisis.

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Features

Combating the climate crisis

Comment

Technology, the arts, psychology and community action all have a part to play in responding to climate change. The RSA’s director of design and innovation introduces the latest issue of the Journal, which celebrates these ‘courageous climate’ ideas

RSA NextGen: Kabir Kaul

RSA NextGen

In the first of a regular series of interviews with young Fellows, we speak with the conservationist and birder about his ambitions, passions and inspirations.

The play’s the thing

Feature

Could the RSA’s Playful Green Planet intervention help create a world where every child has access to nature-based play spaces?

Performance without walls

Arts In The Spotlight

A network of outdoor arts organisations across England is helping artists and festivals to meet their environmental and creative goals.

Under the weather

Feature

As the climate emergency intensifies, young people bear the emotional brunt of a crisis they didn’t create. Their anxiety and outrage demand our understanding – and urgent support.

In conversation with Hannah Jones

In conversation

Sustainability trailblazer and Earthshot Prize CEO Hannah Jones talks with environmental campaigner Amy Meek FRSA about the urgent need for a global innovation movement and an optimistic attitude.

Preserve and protect

Feature

The Earth Defenders Toolkit empowers Indigenous communities at the frontlines of the climate crisis with digital tools to help preserve territory, culture and language.

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RSArchive

  • RSArchive: 250 years of RSA House

    Richard Hale

    RSA House first opened its doors in 1774. Since then the site has seen carousing, consciousness-raising and confidence deserting some of history’s most renowned orators. Today it remains a source of inspiration and refreshment.

  • RSArchive: a school of one's own

    Journal contributor

    Maria Grey, one of the founders of the Girls’ Day School Trust, first called for men and women to be given the same educational opportunities in a speech to the Society of Arts in 1871.

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Books

What our Fellows and staff are reading

Last Word: adaptation

Lala Bohang’s work tends to explore identity, memory and possibility. She published the best-selling trilogy The Book of Siblings and has participated in exhibitions in Indonesia and abroad.

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  • Combating the climate crisis

    Climate change is the single most pressing existential crisis of our time, with its impact threatening all living things through flooding, food and water scarcity, extreme heat and wildfires, disease and economic insecurity.

  • Escaping a democratic recession

    Is democracy in recession? The world's tilted away from liberal democracy and towards more authoritarian regimes. With around half the world’s population going to the polls in 2024, could we even find ourselves in a democratic depression?

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