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A design revolution for the climate emergency

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12 Nov 2021

Joanna Choukeir

Joanna Choukeir on Design for Planet, the global gathering of designers during COP26, and the changes design must make.
The public are ready to go further and faster on net zero

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28 Oct 2021

Anthony Painter

The public are ahead of policy-makers and, indeed, most of the business world. COP26 is an enormous opportunity to catch up. Global leaders should take it.
Changing fashion from the ground up

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19 Apr 2021

Josie Warden

How can our places shape a different future for fashion? Introducing Leeds Fashion Futures, a partnership with Zero Waste Leeds.
Finding the road to renewal

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17 Apr 2020

Sue Pritchard

New poll by FFCC and the Food Foundation finds 85% of people want to see some of the personal or social changes they have experienced during Covid-19 continue afterwards, whilst just 9% want everything to go back to how it was before the pandemic.
Does the global response to coronavirus suggest we can confront climate change?

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05 Apr 2020

Anthony Painter

What can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic about the conditions that we'll need to tackle the climate emergency?
Counting on recovery: collecting the data to inform policy post-crisis

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02 Apr 2020

Tom MacMillan

We’re starting to gather evidence on community responses to the pandemic, to help shape post-crisis policy. If you are too, let’s team up.
The Future is Here

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20 Mar 2020

Sue Pritchard

In a rapidly changing world, we need a stubborn optimism for the future.
The UK needs a land use framework

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20 Feb 2020

Sue Pritchard

Climate change is here; and we must all take it seriously. A land use framework would be the start of a plan commensurate with the scale of the task ahead.
Everyday deliberation and climate action

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07 Feb 2020

Abigail Campbell

All eyes are on Climate Assembly UK in Birmingham this month. But across our region, RSA Fellows are leading the way on smaller-scale deliberative events on the climate emergency.
The 2010s pulled us apart. Can the 2020s bring us together again?

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10 Jan 2020

Anthony Painter

We failed in the 2010s because we blamed each other. To solve our biggest challenges in the decade ahead, we need to be honest about what divides us and work to create common understanding of our problems.