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Why don't we talk about money?

Blog

14 Jan 2011

Jonathan Rowson

Conventional wisdom, which is usually more conventional than wise, advises us that there are three things we should NOT talk about in polite company: sex, religion and money.

The social economy of place

Blog

12 Jan 2011

Matthew Taylor

We had an interesting meeting the other day with some senior civil servants (I won’t say the department but it isn’t hard to work out).  We showcased our work in areas ranging from social networks to behaviour change to civic power and received a generous and enthusiastic response. I took two things out of the meeting.  

The postman only calls once

Blog

10 Jan 2011

T. S. Eliot once wrote that poets are like catalysts that bring about an interaction between two gases.

"Nudge" your neighbour

Press release

22 Dec 2010

Giving community activists the knowledge and support to "nudge" their neighbours could be a better way of encouraging behaviour change across neighbourhoods, according to a report published by the RSA.

How to make money and influence people

Blog

15 Dec 2010

If you are a charity, what’s the best way to raise £100,000?

What is a Creative Gathering?

Blog

09 Dec 2010

The Arts and Social Change strand of Citizen Power just held the third Creative Gathering last night in the Beckett Chapel within Peterborough Cathedral. We will be holding many more but I realize that for those not there, this term of ‘creative gatherings’ may be confusing. Don’t I just mean meetings? And if so, who for? And why?

The Big Society: the Anatomy of the New Politics

Video

09 Dec 2010

With Jesse Norman MP, Mehdi Hasan, Andy Thornton, Lucy de Groot and Phil Collins

Changing the World: Enlightenment and Basic Human Rights

Video

07 Dec 2010

Jonathan Israel, professor, Modern European History, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Chairman's Inaugural Lecture - The Perils of Property

Video

06 Dec 2010

Luke Johnson, chairman, the RSA