Rob Hopkins 'From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination'

Series Three

In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal, I interview Rob Hopkins,  cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network,  and author of numerous books including 'The Transition Handbook, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want'.  

He presents the podcast series 'From What If to What Next'  which invites listeners to send in their “what if” questions and then explores how to make them a reality.  

Rob was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer's list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. 

He's also appeared on BBC Radio 4, in the French film phenomenon 'Demain'  and its sequel 'Apres Demain', and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events. 

In 2020 he was a member of the Cambridge Sustainability Commission on Scaling Sustainable Behaviour Change. (And in his - presumably minimal - spare time, he sometimes makes lino prints.) 

So, in this dynamic interview, we discuss his views on all of the above, and along the way, issues such as Buddhism, punk, permaculture, the climate & ecological emergency, the decline of play vs the rise of screens, the great reskilling, citizen assemblies, positive change, speculative fiction, and The Fall...