Sustainability

Designer and cultural producer Emily Cornuaud reflects on the role creativity plays in shaping our lives

Johanna Gibbons, RDI, FRSA introduces this new regular feature, reflecting on her appointment as Keeper of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. She emphasises the collective influence of the RDIs and RSA Fellowship as a network capable of shaping a more regenerative future.  

Finalists from the RSA Spark Entrepreneur Awards have secured significant additional funding from the Chacegrove Family Foundation to help them take their high-impact ideas further into real-world solutions.

For Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO of Octopus, the energy transition feels so close he can almost touch it. The iconoclast entrepreneur invited the RSA into Octopus HQ in central London for an interview with writer and broadcaster Lucy Siegle. Their conversation spanned the power of electrification, UK energy chaos, why populists have a point on bills, and how to deal with oil executives planning for Armageddon.

Once cheered, now booed, the fight to save our climate is at a crossroads. Climate activist Clover Hogan argues that the issue lies in who holds the power – and that real change depends on collective action, bold civic participation and challenging the elites who profit from delay. Only honesty can rebuild momentum.

Chair of the RSA’s Trustee Board Sir Loyd Grossman introduces the Journal’s ‘Action’ issue, which includes interviews with the latest Royal Designers for Industry, an investigation into future-thinking by Nick Foster RDI and an ‘In Conversation’ with Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy

We need swift and radical change in capabilities, innovation and investment to save the planet. Read Mari Nishimura, from the United Nations, own view on moving towards a healthy planet.