Rob Hopkins
Episodes
Rosie Boycott on scaling up urban agriculture in London
20 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie Boycott is Chair of the London Food Board and founder of Capital Growth. She writes and speaks regularly about the importance of food in improv...
Kevin McCabe on mainstreaming cob building (or not)
10 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin McCabe is a cob builder based in Ottery St. Mary, Devon. He has revolutionised the construction of cob buildings in the UK which had pretty muc...
Chuck Collins on replacing "Transition" with "Cancer-Free"
09 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating discussion I had with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition in Boston about putting public health on the Transition agen...
Nick Temple on scaling up social innovations
08 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Temple is Director of Business and Enterprise at Social Enterprise UK. We talked via Skype while he sat in a London coffee shop, about social en...
An interview with Annie Leonard about 'stuff'
10 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Leonard, director of 'The Story of Stuff' and the other films in the 'Stuff' series, talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.
Adam Corner on the power of marketing
09 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Corner is a Research Associate in the Understanding Risk research group at Cardiff University. His research looks at how people evaluate argument...
An interview with Oliver James
06 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver James is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Psychologist, registered by the British Psychological Society. He is Britain's best...
Rupert Morrison of Drift Records on vinyl as "stuff"
02 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rupert Morrison of the wonderful Drift Record Shop in Totnes discusses the rebirth of vinyl and what it tells us about our relationship with music, ma...
Ruth Potts on the New Materialism
28 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Potts is co-author with Andrew Simms of 'The New Materialism' and one of the founders of Bread, Print and Roses http://breadprintandroses.org/.
Ugo Vallauri on Restart and a new relationship with 'stuff'
22 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Ugo Vallauri discusses Restart parties, the power of fixing stuff and thinking like a social enterprise. http://therestartproject.org/
Frances Northrop on how Transition Town Totnes is responding to austerity.
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Northrop is Transition in Action manager with Transition Town Totnes. Here she talks about how the organisation is responding to austerity in...
Austerity Basics 9: Is there an alternative, and if so, what is it?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 8: Who benefits from austerity?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 7: What will 'permanent austerity' look like in practice?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 6: Why is the flight of jobs to the private sector a problem?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 5: Can austerity ever be said to have worked anywhere?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 4: What are the dangers of trying to pay our national debt off too fast?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 3: Is the UK's debt really historically unprecedented?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 2: Where does the idea come from?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
Austerity Basics 1: What is austerity?
18 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.
An interview with Doria Robinson of Urban Tilth, Richmond, San Francisco
16 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Doria Robinson is Executive Director of Urban Tilth, an organisation which cultivates agriculture in Richmond to help the community build a more susta...
An interview with Pam Warhurst on austerity and Incredible Edible Todmorden
05 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Pam Warhurst of Incredible Edible Todmorden discusses the power of food growing, of the potential of food for reviving local economies, and as a respo...
Rob Hopkins speaking at the Northern California Permaculture/Transition convergence
30 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Introduced by Richard Heinberg, here is the talk Rob Hopkins gave to the Permaculture and Transition Network convergence at Hopland, California.
Jeremy Leggett on 'The Energy of Nations'
29 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Leggett, founder of chairman of Solar Century and Solar Aid, as well as of the financial think tank Carbon Tracker, speaks to Transition Networ...
An interview with Tim Lang on food and austerity
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University London's Centre for Food Policy since 2002.
An interview with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (5)
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How has JPNet practically approached the issues around diversity and engagement in Jamaica Plain?
An interview with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (4)
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future hold for Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition? What does success look like?
An interview with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (3)
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
How does JPNet approach the issue of austerity?
An interview with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (2)
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
So what does Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition actually do?
An interview with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (1)
28 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
First I asked Chuck to introduce Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition and how and why it was founded.
Richard Heinberg on 10 years after The Party's Over
14 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Richard Heinberg, sitting in his garden in California.
An interview with Jason Roberts of Team Better Block
09 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Roberts of Team Better Block (http://teambetterblock.com/) speaks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.
Paul Hawken
06 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Hawkens talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.
Duncan Law on 'Rethinking Lambeth’s Local Economy' (5)
17 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What advice would you give other initiatives thinking about doing a report like this?"
Duncan Law on 'Rethinking Lambeth’s Local Economy' (4)
17 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What difference would some kind of funding make to your ability to make this Evaluation a reality?"
Duncan Law on 'Rethinking Lambeth's Local Economy' (3)
17 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What does localisation mean in the context of Brixton?"
Duncan Law on 'Rethinking Lambeth's Local Economy' (2)
17 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What does having done this Evaluation make possible?"
Duncan Law on 'Rethinking Lambeth's Local Economy' (1)
17 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What were the key learnings from the Evaluation?"
The Swanage School: "How do you see the pros and cons of being a Free School?"
12 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Angel of The Swanage School muses on the pros and cons of becoming a Free School. Are they a good thing, or do they take desperately-needed fund...
The Swanage School: "How was your first week of being open?"
12 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Angel reflects on how the school's first week went!
The Swanage School: "What's a Transition school?"
12 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Hopkins spoke to Paul Angel, a governor and founder of The Swanage School, and asked what, for him, is a 'Transition School'?
Fiona Ward on The New Economy in 20 Enterprises #5
03 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What would it look like if government got behind and supported this approach?" http://www.reconomy.org/the-new-economy-in-20-enterprises/
Fiona Ward on The New Economy in 20 Enterprises #4
03 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What does this report tell us about where the economy could go from here?"
Fiona Ward on The New Economy in 20 Enterprises #3
03 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What insights did you get into what are the ingredients of these enterprises' success?"
Fiona Ward on The New Economy in 20 Enterprises #2
03 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"What can we learn from this report?" http://www.reconomy.org/the-new-economy-in-20-enterprises/
Fiona Ward on The New Economy in 20 Enterprises #1
03 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"How did this report come about?" http://www.reconomy.org/the-new-economy-in-20-enterprises/
Naresh Giangrande 5: "What makes a good trainer?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Naresh reflects on what it is that makes a good Transition Trainer... https://www.transitionnetwork.org/training/courses/launch-online
Naresh Giangrande 4: "What will people get out of it?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Naresh Giangrande on what he hopes participants will get out of taking part in a Transition Launch Online training. https://www.transitionnetwork.org/...
Naresh Giangrande 3: "How did 'Launch Online' come about?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Naresh Giangrande on how 'Transition Launch Online' was developed and on what it is.
Naresh Giangrande 2: "What different trainings have been developed?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Naresh Giangrande describes the different trainings that Transition Training have created and now offer.
Naresh Giangrande 1: The story so far...
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
We asked Transition Training co-originator Naresh Giangrande how Transition Training began and what it has gone on to become.
May East 3: "What's different about Transition?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Transition Trainer May East on how discovering Transition changed her approach to social change and to activism.
May East 2: "What makes a good trainer?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Transition Trainer May East argues that a good trainer is a generalist.
May East 1: "What came out of the rainforest Transition Training?"
31 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I asked Transition Trainer May East what were the results, the outcomes, of the Transition Training that she ran in the rainforest in Brazil with a ru...
Marina O'Connell on the new Resilient Food Systems training
29 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Transition Trainer Marina O'Connell discusses Resilient Food Systems, a new Transition Training being run for the first time September 13th -14th. Mo...
Hide Enomoto 5: "What's your vision?"
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
I asked Hide where he'd like to see Transition in Japan in 5 years time. Where would he like to see it get to?
Hide Enomoto 4: Did 3/11 bring out the best, or the worst, in people?
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hide reflects on the impacts of the 3/11 tsunami/nuclear disaster and on whether it generated, as some would assume, an "everyone for themselves" atti...
Hide Enomoto 3: "How has Transition adapted to Japanese culture?"
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hide Enomoto reflects on how Transition has adapted in order to feel like a Japanese creation.
Hide Enomoto 2: "What has that led to?"
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hide Enomoto reflects on what has happened with Transition in Japan so far, and in particular on how his community in Fujino responded to the disaster...
Hide Enomoto 1: "How did you first get involved in Transition?"
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hide Enomoto of Transition Town Fujino and Transition Japan talks about "how did you first get involved in Transition?"
Lisa on One Year in Transition
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa looks back over her year as part of One Year in Transition.
Richard reflects on One Year in Transition
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Richard, who took part in the pilot year of One Year in Transition, reflects on how it was for him.
Hannah reflects on One Year in Transition
24 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah, one of the participants in the first running of One Year in Transition, reflects on her experience of the course. https://www.transitionnetwo...
Nafeez Ahmed on the crisis of civilisation and why doing stuff matters
22 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a bestselling author, investigative journalist, international security scholar, policy expert, film-maker, strategy & com...
Transition Streets Challenge, Newcastle, Australia
19 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Graeme and Cathy Stuart are two of the co-ordinators of the Transition Streets Challenge in Newcastle, Australia. Rob Hopkins spoke to them about the...
Ways With Words July 13
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Hopkins unveils '10 Transition Innovations that Could Save the World' at the Ways with Words Festival on Sunday 14th July 2013.
Andrew Simms discusses the IDDRI conference in Paris
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Simms of New Economics Foundation and Global Witness shares his thoughts on the IDDRI conference in Paris.
Molly Fletcher On Kilburn's Edible High Road initiative
09 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Fletcher of Transition Kensal to Kilburn discusses the group's Edible High Road project and The Power of Just Doing Stuff; http://ttkensaltokilb...
Sophy Banks on the Power of Just Not Doing Stuff
09 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sophy Banks, pioneer of Transition Training and Inner Transition, speaks about why it can sometimes matter just as much to not do stuff as to do it.
An interview with Jenny Gellatly of School Farm
08 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Gellatly of School Farm CSA discusses the project and the power that comes from just doing stuff. https://www.facebook.com/SchoolFarmCommunityS...
The Fife Diet's Mike Small
30 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Small of the Fife Diet discusses food, carbon and Jay Rayner.
Mike Small of the Fife Diet
19 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Small of the Fife Diet in conversation with Rob Hopkins of Transition Network. www.fifediet.co.uk
Launching The Power of Just Doing Stuff in Crystal Palace
19 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Hopkins launches 'The Power of Just Doing Stuff' at the Grape and Grain in Crystal Palace, introduced by Joe Duggan from Crystal Palace Transition...
An interview with Lord Adair Turner
12 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell is a British businessman, academic, a member of the UK's Financial Policy Committee, former Chair o...
Nick Sherwood on the Herefordshire Economic Evaluation
07 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Sherwood discusses the Herefordshire Economic Evaluation, Opportunities to grow our local economy, which can be downloaded from http://www.recono...
Prof. Calvin Jones on post growth economies
03 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Calvin Jones is Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School. I spoke to him about an excellent article he wrote about economic growth and...
Tom Henfrey on the relationship between Transition and academia
20 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Henfrey discusses how Transition can help academia, and how academia can help Transition. The Transition Research Primer can be downloaded from h...
Tom Henfrey on "what's the Transition Research Primer?"
20 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Henfrey discusses the Transition Research Primer, what's in it and what's it for. You can download the Primer at http://www.transitionresearchnet...
Tom Henfrey on "what's the Transition Reseach Network?"
20 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Henfrey of the Transition Research Network answers the question "so what's the Transition Research Network and how did it come about?"
Nick Osborne: "How did this training come about?"
06 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Osborne on the background to the film and the training resources. "How did they come about?". https://www.transitionnetwork.org/training/course...
Nick Osborne: "How can people access this training?"
06 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Osborne answering the question "if people feel they need this training, where do they go from there?" https://www.transitionnetwork.org/training/...
Nick Osborne: "What are these new resources?"
06 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Osborne answers the question "what are the resources that the Effective Groups training is built around?" https://www.transitionnetwork.org/trai...
Nick Osborne: "How would people know they need this training?"
06 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Osborne, creator of the 'Effective Groups' training, reflecting on what are some of the indicators within a Transition group that they might bene...
Alan Brown of Transition Linlithgow
02 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Brown of Transition Linlithgow on what he would like to see happen to the wood the group recently got following a Chanel fashion show at the loca...
Rachel De Thample of Transition Crystal Palace
20 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel De Thample of Transition Crystal Palace on her Christmas dinner, all grown or foraged from within London. http://www.crystalpalacetransition.o...
Rob Hopkins on 'The Transition movement and the potential of local building materials'
11 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On 1st February 2013 I spoke at 'From spaces to places – Building with earth ', the Earth Building UK conference at Dartington (http://www.ebuk.uk.c...
NE Seattle Tool Library. Q1: "Could you tell us a bit more about the project?"
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Leo Brodie and Susan Gregory of Sustainable NE Seattle's NE Seattle Tool Library. neseattletoollibrary.org/
NE Seattle Tool Library. Q5: "What advice would you have for anyone else wanting to do this?"
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Leo Brodie and Susan Gregory of Sustainable NE Seattle's NE Seattle Tool Library. neseattletoollibrary.org/
NE Seattle Tool Library. Q4: "Any moments that have stood out since it began?"
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Leo Brodie and Susan Gregory of Sustainable NE Seattle's NE Seattle Tool Library. neseattletoollibrary.org/
NE Seattle Tool Library Q3: "Where might all this go?"
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Leo Brodie and Susan Gregory of Sustainable NE Seattle's NE Seattle Tool Library. http://neseattletoollibrary.org/
NE Seattle Tool Library. Q2: "How has it been to see this become a reality?"
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Leo Brodie and Susan Gregory of Sustainable NE Seattle's NE Seattle Tool Library. http://neseattletoollibrary.org/
An interview with Dr. Michael Mann on 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars'
31 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and t...
Transition Free Press - editor Charlotte Du Cann
23 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Transition Free Press editor Charlotte Du Cann talks about the paper, how it will help Transition groups, and why you should help the crowdfunding app...
Transition Free Press - designer Trucie Mitchell
18 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Trucie Mitchell is the designer for Transition Free Press, the newspaper for the Transition movement which was just about ready to go to press when I ...
Looby Macnamara
16 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Looby Macnamara is a permaculture teacher and is the author of 'People and Permaculture'. Here she talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins about pe...
Transition Free Press: Jay Tompt
14 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Transition Free Press will be a quarterly newspaper for the Transition movement. It is currently running a crowdfunding appeal on Buzzbnk at https://...
Tony Greenham on Transition and the new economics
09 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
REconomy's Fiona Ward (www.reconomy.org) speaks to Tony Greenham of New Economics Foundation (www.neweconomics.org).
Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod's Great British peas and beans
07 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
An interview with Josiah Meldrum about Hodmedod's Great British peas and beans, about their rediscovery and promotion of split fava beans. See www.ho...
Transition films
03 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Top Ten films as voted for by Transition initiatives!!
Graham Jones, author of Last Shop Standing
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Jones is author of the book 'Last Shop Standing' which was recently turned into a film of the same name. http://lastshopstanding.com/