Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of theTransition Network. He is a serialblogger, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff ,The Transition Handbook andThe 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 ofAtmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.
Articles / Blog posts
Drucilla Cornell on the power of the public imagination
February 10, 2021
What if…there was a daily ‘imagination’ lesson?
November 16, 2020
Why the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill could lead to a revolution of the imagination
August 26, 2020
When the Chickens of Imagination Come Home to Roost
June 17, 2020
What the Transition Movement can Teach us About how to ‘Bounce Forward’
May 22, 2020
Please Don’t Read this Blog. Do Something Else Instead.
April 21, 2020
What did Sisyphus Dream of?
March 10, 2020
The Snowy Walk of What If
February 12, 2020
Why I spent Christmas on the Moon
January 10, 2020
The Importance of Imagination
November 19, 2019
Why I Spent the Last Two Years Writing a Book about Imagination
October 18, 2019
Why the Next 12 Years Could be the Making of Us
June 3, 2019
My Talk at the Celebration of the Life and Times of the Totnes Pound
April 9, 2019
My IPCC Take-away: Imagine. Take Action. Repeat.
November 14, 2018
Stephen Duncombe on Imagination, Spectacle and Desire
October 2, 2018
Drew Dellinger: “If we had more imagination, we could have less capitalism”
July 17, 2018
“Always the Same, Always Different”: a Response to Ted Trainer
June 14, 2018
Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the imagination with Lise van Susteren
April 25, 2018
A Dazzlingly Delicious Taste of the Future in Liége
March 28, 2018
This beer kills pipelines
June 14, 2017
Power in our hands
June 5, 2017
What keeps me going?
May 8, 2017
Reclaiming Conversation – the Power of Talk in a Digital Age: Review
April 20, 2017
Why We Need The Yellow House More than Ever
April 12, 2017
Why I’m writing a book about imagination
March 21, 2017
The Curse of the iPad Stalks the Land or In Praise of Boredom
March 9, 2017
10 Years of Transition Network: The Early Days
March 2, 2017
Richard Heinberg on ‘America First’
February 7, 2017
How Do I Know Good Can Overcome Ignorance, Spite and Hate? Because I’ve Seen it.
January 30, 2017
Inauguration Day: Kicking Against the Prick(s)
January 23, 2017
Reports
Le Climat Après La Croissance
February 7, 2015
Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience
September 30, 2013
Resilience: What Can Communities Do?
September 13, 2010
Books
Media
Rob Hopkins on Transition and the Power of Just Doing Stuff
October 23, 2013
Rob Hopkins answers “What is Transition?”
October 18, 2013
