by Andrea Westall | Oct 27, 2016 | News and Comment
In September 2016, FDSD submitted our thoughts to the UK’s Environmental Audit Committee in response to their Inquiry into the domestic implementation of The Sustainable Development Goals in the UK. We argued that the SDGs provide a timely opportunity and useful...
by kultur.work | Oct 27, 2016 | News and Comment
Peter Davies has a wide range of roles working in support of communities, citizens and consumers. These include chairing the Wales Council for Voluntary Action, Welsh Water’s Customer Challenge Group and the Size of Wales charity, Director of Pembrokeshire Community...
by Graham Smith | Oct 27, 2016
The economy is an area of decision-making fiercely protected by experts and politicians from public participation. But public confidence in this closed policy community is waning and arguments for democratic participation in an area that so profoundly shapes all our...
by Andrea Westall | Oct 14, 2016
In September 2016, we responded to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry: The sustainable development goals in the UK. You can find our submission on the EAC website. We argued that currently Whitehall is not publicly stating, acknowledging or realising the...
by kultur.work | Oct 5, 2016 | News and Comment
The acute storms in the UK during the winter of 2013/14 and 2015/16 have revealed a problem that is now understood to be chronic: with climate change materialising more forcefully, severe flooding will become part of life for many communities across the UK....
by kultur.work | Sep 20, 2016 | News and Comment
‘It’s the economy, stupid’! Governments rise and fall on the back of economic success or failure. For the public, the economy is consistently ranked among the top three issues of concern. Yet, few people feel literate enough to understand economic policy, to...
by kultur.work | Sep 12, 2016
The Ashton Hayes Going Carbon Neutral Project is a community-led initiative that is aimed at making the village “the first carbon neutral community in England”. Located in rural Cheshire, Ashton Hayes has cut its carbon dioxide emissions by already 40%...
by kultur.work | Aug 22, 2016
The renowned environmental magazine Resurgence is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a three day event: One Earth, One Humanity, One Future. Amongst a select set of outstanding ecological, environmental, social and spiritual thinkers, artists, politicians...
by kultur.work | Aug 10, 2016 | News and Comment
“Brexit means Brexit,” said Theresa May in one of her first public statements as Prime Minister. But what does that mean – for agriculture, fisheries, the environment and climate change in the UK? These were the leading questions in a recent study by Dr Charlotte...
by Andrea Westall | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
Amongst many other things, the UK’s vote to leave the EU was a cry for recognition from people with very different lives and opportunities across the UK. It was also a stark reminder of ‒ or, for some, a sudden insight into ‒ different priorities and viewpoints...
by Peter Davies | Jul 22, 2016 | News and Comment
“What we need are conversations about the future we want,” says the FDSD in response to Brexit, citing the Wales We Want conversation as precedent. As a new FDSD Trustee and the former Commissioner for Sustainable Futures in charge of leading that conversation, which...
by Emily Auckland | Jul 22, 2016 | News and Comment
One month on and questions are still being asked about how we got here. The only thing that’s clear, it seems, is that Brexit suggests a deep division between inward- and outward-facing worldviews: control our borders and attempt to reduce the strain on our...
by Graham Smith | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
Whether you were for or against Brexit, most would agree that the referendum campaign was far from instructive. It brought out the worst in British politics: primarily two sets of over-privileged, middle-aged white males throwing opinions, thinly disguised as...
by John Lotherington | Jul 18, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
As everyone woke up to Brexit on 24 June, there was a dawning realization that we were in uncharted territory. The campaign was focused on what we were trying to avoid, not where we wanted to head. That was true of the Remainers, with their increasingly...
by kultur.work | Jun 15, 2016 | News and Comment
In September 2015, 193 UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) – an ambitious set of 169 targets that commits all signatory countries to tackle issues from gender inequality to climate change, access to quality education and...
by kultur.work | Jun 10, 2016
The Citizens Economic Council is a new RSA programme “that will engage an independently selected group of 50 citizens who are representative of the UK in conversations about economic policy. The citizens will engage with economists, leading thinkers and...
by kultur.work | Jun 7, 2016
As the EU Referendum draws closer much has been reported in the media about what leaving the EU would mean for the economy, immigration and travel abroad. But what would leaving the EU mean for Equalities? Would leaving the EU mean more or less protection for minority...
by Andrea Westall | May 30, 2016
Charlotte Burns and Viviane Gravey argue that the EU Referendum debate in the UK has been “surprisingly quiet on the issue of the environment”. They look at three options for the UK from the point of view of their impacts on participatory democracy, as...
by Graham Smith | May 25, 2016 | Blog, News and Comment
Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and a specialist in democratic innovation and citizen engagement, with a particular interest in climate politics and the representation of future generations. He...
by kultur.work | May 21, 2016 | News and Comment
Whether it’s direct or indirect, climate change will have an impact on public health. A recent report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Economics Foundation reviews current local strategies by public health institutions to address climate change. In...
