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Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He is a serial blogger, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.

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Ruth Sapsed on Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

We’ll talk about children leading.  That doesn’t mean that we don’t do anything.  That means that we’re trying to listen to what they are interested in and come alongside them with those interests.

  • December 7, 2018
Doria Robinson

Doria Robinson on How Urban Agriculture can Heal a Community’s Imagination

By Rob Hopkins, Doria Robinson, Rob Hopkins blog

The goal is to actually draw out some kind of a map.  What are the physical infrastructural needs?  How do things work together?  How do we feed millions of people as opposed to – even if we’re starting with small amounts of people in communities at a time – how does that add up to the millions that are out there that need to be fed? 

  • November 28, 2018
Future

My IPCC Take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Network

My main take-away from the 2018 IPCC report is that there may still be time, but only if we can bring about a deep reimagining of what the world could be and how it might work. As Daniel Aldana Cohen put it, “we are only doomed if we do nothing”.

  • November 9, 2018
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Stephen Duncombe on Imagination, Spectacle and Desire

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

I loved the book’s assertion that “unless progressives acknowledge and accept a politics of imagination, desire and spectacle, and, most important, make it ethical and make it our own, we will bring about our “ruin rather than preservation”.

  • October 1, 2018
K

‘The Creativity Crisis’

By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog

If climate change is anything, it must be the greatest failure  of the imagination in the history of the world.  Perhaps K’s paper might offer some illumination as to why our response isn’t happening fast enough?

  • September 24, 2018
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