Uploaded June 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Rob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network – a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, 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 has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. 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.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How local communities are reshaping the world and economy
- The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
- What happens when communities create their own currencies
- How and why we need to address climate change
- Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
- How the governments of the future are evolving today
- Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
- Where we are headed with urban farming
- Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems
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Rob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network – a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world
Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, 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 has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. 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.
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How local communities are reshaping the world and economy
- The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
- What happens when communities create their own currencies
- How and why we need to address climate change
- Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
- How the governments of the future are evolving today
- Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
- Where we are headed with urban farming
- Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems
--
VISIT THE DISRUPTORS FOR TONS MORE INTERVIEWS, TOPICS & GUIDES
https://disruptors.fm
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON iTUNES
https://disruptors.fm/itunes
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JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER + GET FREE AUDIOBOOK
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