Rob Hopkins

What do you do?

I blog, tweet, write books and do lots of public speaking about Transition and represent the movement at different events: https://www.robhopkins.net/

What do you find most surprising or delightful about working in the field of Transition?  

It is always an enormous honour to visit places that are putting Transition into practice, and the excitement, self-belief and sense of possibility that they are so happy to share.  Every place has its surprises, every story that comes into us at Transition Network has its surprises, and I suspect that there are plenty more such surprises to come!

Recent posts by Rob Hopkins

May 22, 2024 Ministry of Imagination Manifesto released as the world goes to the polls.
October 12, 2022 Community resilience from the future
March 8, 2022 Stories from the movement: Transition Toronto
October 8, 2021 Talking Radical Imagination with Max Haiven
September 24, 2021 What if young people reimagined the education system?
June 21, 2021 How the ‘From What If to What Next’ podcast came to be.
June 9, 2021 Hide Enomoto on his new book about the story of Transition in Japan.
April 16, 2021 What Happened at the What Next Summit?
April 6, 2021 Drucilla Cornell on the Power of the Public Imagination
March 4, 2021 The Tale of the Camden Future Journal
February 18, 2021 Reflections on my French Digital Transition Tour
January 21, 2021 This Good Earth – film review
December 10, 2020 Some reflections on the difference between ‘Yes, but’ and ‘Yes, and’
October 14, 2020 Transition: Bounce Forward – ‘What Is’ webinars
October 7, 2020 Transition Days and Nights in Luxembourg and France
July 19, 2020 The Imagination Sundial
June 25, 2020 Rob Hopkins reviews ‘Human Kind: A Hopeful History’ by Rutger Bregman
May 27, 2020 The Secret of Change – review
May 23, 2020 My Pandemic Experience
May 21, 2020 For without creativity, what is our existence?
May 9, 2020 “The sun will never shine as it does today” – some reflections from lockdown
May 8, 2020 What the Transition movement can teach us about how to ‘bounce forward’
February 25, 2020 The Tale of the Camden Think & Do
February 10, 2020 Returning Land Back to the Commons
January 17, 2020 ‘Pop Up Tomorrow’ (London): voices of those who were there
January 9, 2020 Why I spent Christmas on the Moon
September 24, 2019 Why ‘Pop Up Tomorrow’?
July 31, 2019 Totnes Declares a Climate & Ecological Emergency – What Next? Event report. 
June 11, 2019 Bee Roadzz
May 30, 2019 ‘So you’ve declared a Climate Emergency, now what?’ event review
May 22, 2019 Why the Climate Emergency needs a National Imagination Act
April 26, 2019 ‘Imagination Taking Power’: my Transition Tour de France
February 6, 2019 Grey Lynn 2030 new publication celebrates 10 years.
December 4, 2018 Have imagination, will travel: 2 days in Brest
November 8, 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.
October 24, 2018 New thesis explores early days of Transition in Kinsale
July 25, 2018 New thesis explores the Transition experiment in Ungersheim
July 10, 2018 Drew Dellinger: “If we had more imagination, we could have less capitalism”
June 13, 2018 “Always the same, always different”: a response to Ted Trainer
May 31, 2018 A visit to Urinetown (no, really)
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