Rob Hopkins

Josh Golin is the Executive Director of the Campaign for Commerical Free Childhood, an advocacy organisation that works to protect children from the harmful effects of commercialism and promote creative play. He lives in Boston. We chatted via Skype.

March 9th 2017 was the 10th anniversary celebrations of Transition Town Totnes. As part of an event in Totnes Civic Hall which also launched the town's Film Festival, Rob Hopkins gave a potted history of the project, and was joined by various people from the initiative's past and present to talk about some of the initiative's key projects. www.transitiontowntotnes.org

As part of a series looking at Donald Trump's 'America First' concept, we talk to Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute and author of several books, including 'The Party's Over'.

Cormac is Managing Director of Nurture Development and a faculty member of the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at Northwestern University, Chicago. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other strengths based approaches in Kenya, Southern Sudan, South Africa, the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia. He also gave a great TEDx talk that we loved. Here he talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

New Lion Brewery has collaborated with Grown in Totnes to produce an Einkorn Gruit. But what is Einkorn? And why would you make a Gruit with it? New Lion's Head Brewery Mat Henney and Grown in Totnes' Holly Tiffin tell the story, and what such a collaboration could mean for the future of brewing.

Rob Hopkins meets Rob Wilson of Toast to find out about a new social enterprise that's making bread from surplus toast. www.newlionbrewery.co.uk www.toastale.com

On Saturday 12th November in Totnes, Caring Town Totnes held an event that brought together 30 different organisations who offer care in the town. It gave the opportunity for people to meet them, to find out what they do, and to find out what opportunities exist for volunteering. Rob Hopkins popped along to find out more and started by asking organiser Fiona Ward why such an event matters.

Film maker Marie-Monique Robin discusses her new film 'Qu'est ce qu'on attend?' ('What are we waiting for?') with Transition Network's Rob Hopkins. The film tells the remarkable story of the Transition underway in the Alsace village of Ungersheim. Find out more at http://m2rfilms.com/qu-est-ce-qu-on-attend.

Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 - 20:00 to 22:00. With Rob Hopkins and Shaun Chamberlin. Already a key influence on the Transition movement, Green Party, New Economics Foundation and Soil Association, Fleming’s legacy is only set to grow with the posthumous publication of his astonishing masterpiece, Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It (link is external). Building on the tradition of E.F. Schumacher, his entertaining vision of a post-growth economy built on the play, humour, rootedness and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture has long inspired optimism and action. Rob and Shaun will share insights and anecdotes on his life, influence and enduring importance. We will also hear from the man himself, through recently unearthed recordings. Books will be available on the night. This is the full audio of the evening.

At the 7th International Sustainability Transitions Conference in Wuppertal, Germany, Rob Hopkins and Derk Loorbach took part in a session called 'Research and Practice Perspectives on the Governanace of Urban Transitions', chaired by Maja Gopel. Here is the audio recording of that session.