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The Big Idea: changing mindsets for the environment

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29 Jul 2013

Richard Pickford

I come from an outdoor education background, playing in rivers, scaling rock faces and tramping over hills and through woods and it has always been instilled into me to leave nothing behind. I spent a few years working in Canada where the ‘no trace camping’ ethic is very strong. When I came to the RSA almost a year ago I was really interested by the work that was beginning on recycling and circular design. Having been inspired by Yvon Chouinard’s book Let My People Go Surf and his company Patagonia’s work on recycled clothing it was great to see such an esteemed organisation stepping up. There is a growing awareness that we need to reconsider our attitudes to waste, and recycling. The RSA has been busy exploring circular design ideas through the Great Recovery project to reduce waste and promote cradle to cradle design and the RSA has also embarked on an exciting piece of work exploring makers and designers which was launched in June at Somerset House which hopes to raise awareness of new design and making principles to shift the conversation and create a new breed of designers and creators.
Integrated development and community empowerment in Sindh

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29 Jul 2013

Shahid Khan CEO of Indus Earth Trust talks about empowering a community to rebuild their village in Sindh after the floods of 2011.
Raindrop - Gulalai, A Peacemaker

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29 Jul 2013

Gulalai talks about her inspiration to work with young people in tribal communities to help build a peaceful future for Pakistan.
Bacha Bulletins

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29 Jul 2013

This film explores Bacha Bulletins - a fifteen month project engaging young children from different communities in Lahore and Islamabad.
Women Under Siege

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29 Jul 2013

A short film on the impact of religious extremism on the lives of women in Houston, Texas and Karachi, Pakistan.
A Little Easier, A Little More Beautiful

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29 Jul 2013

This film explores the workers who make everyone's lives a little easier in Pakistan's biggest and busiest city of Karachi.
Narrative feeds the self

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26 Jul 2013

Jonathan Rowson

"As words and thought are eased out of the mind, so the self weakens. There is no narrative to feed it...Like ghosts, angels, gods, 'self', it turns out, is an idea we invented, a story we tell ourselves. It needs language to survive. The words create meaning, the meaning purpose, the purpose narrative. But here, for a little while, there is no story, no rhetoric, no deceit. Here is silence and acceptance; the pleasure of a space that need not be imbued with meaning. Intensely aware, of the flesh, the breath, the blood, consciousness allows the 'I' to slip away."
Seven steps out of the current crisis

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26 Jul 2013

Matthew Taylor

I'm on my way to Brighton where, as the proud holder of an honorary doctorate from Brighton University, I will sit on the stage at the graduation ceremony. In a reflective mood, I thought it might be useful to summarise my current world view in seven short propositions:
Privilege, principle and the little prince

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24 Jul 2013

Matthew Taylor

Tonight on Moral Maze we are using the occasion of the Royal birth as a hook for a discussion about unequal life chances for children. Until the panel meets before the programme I am never quite sure what my lines of argument will be, but here are my suitably provocative starting points.
Troubled families - a risk of glorious failure?

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23 Jul 2013

Matthew Taylor

One of the few winners in the recent spending review was the Troubled Families programme. After a feisty campaign by the Troubled Family Tsar Louise Casey - some of which spilled out into the media - an extra £200 million was made available. This comes on top of the £448 million already committed, made up of a combination of national and matched local spending. There is also a £200 million European Social Fund (ESF) funded programme targeted at roughly the same families.