Ecology

Meet Andries Botha: Getting back to Nature

June 17 5:00 – 9:00 pm Primitive 130 North Jefferson Bliss Browne invites Fellows to a reception in celebration of Andries Botha (www.andriesbotha.net), eminent S African artist and creator of the Human Elephant Foundation. Download the invitation: herdinvite  Bliss Browne Imagine Chicago To see the elephant (Nomkhubulwane) , life size and made from recycled truck tires, she will [...]

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Bioneers and Biomimicry

Kenny Ausubel is expanding the work of Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) to Europe with a Conference in the Netherlands May 30-June 1, 2010, and invites RSA Fellows to participate and help spread the word.  Bioneers Global: A Greening Business Lab and Biomimicry Forum, takes place at the Antropia CoolConference Centre, Reehorst Estate, Zeist, Netherlands.  It is a [...]

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Food for Thought: Toxic Diets

If you are like me, you worry about the quality of the food we eat: too much fat, too many additives, lots of sugar and salt. Even here in the affluent former AOL corridor, a healthy diet is something we can only guess at, where our high end grocery stores offer fruits surely too perfect [...]

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RSA New York: Climate, Copenhagen and Consequences

February 24, 2010, 6 p.m., 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013 Nikhil Chandavarkar in conversation with David A. Andelman An invitation-only event co-presented by the Royal Society for the Arts in the United States and the World Policy Journal Nikhil Chandavarkar, FRSA, Secretary to UN-Water, offers his unique insights on the outcomes [...]

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Internet and Community: What Does the Future Hold?

At the DuPont Summit on Science and Technology in Washington on December 4, 2009, Nigel Cameron, FRSA, President and CEO of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technology, led a panel discussion on how our lives are impacted by the Internet.  The panel was inspired by an earlier blog post by Matthew Taylor, who wrote: [...]

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Sikorsky Event Report

In keeping with the strong interest in the subjects of sustainability and climate change, the RSA organized a fascinating event at the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Stratford, CT. on November 5th.  Among the attendees were 15 graduate students from the School of Forestry and Environment at Yale University kindly introduced by Rachel Kelstein.  The event [...]

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