Rob Hopkins
Resilience.org
United Kingdom
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Past articles by Amber:
Creating space for community imagination
I keep coming back to how vitally important it is to create space for the imagination, what I call ‘What If spaces’, whether in our own lives, our organisations or our communities. → Read More
What if we became the best storytellers we could possibly be? A blog for Civic Square
If your storytelling isn’t at least a bit ridiculous then it almost certainly isn’t ambitious enough. → Read More
Travels in my Time Machine Part Two: the Utrecht bicycle rush hour
The city of Utrecht has 420km of bike paths and the city is home to 21 bicycle parking facilities which can together accommodate 30,000 bikes in the area around the station alone → Read More
How to re-imagine a city
Transition Southampton received Bounce Forward seed funding for their Growing Places project, supporting their work in three very different neighbourhoods of the city → Read More
When Transition means Transition, and when it doesn’t
The starting point for Transition is that the future with less oil, and producing less carbon emissions, could be preferable to today. → Read More
From Tiny Acorns: celebrating 21 years of the Kinsale permaculture course
The idea of a permaculture course that might go on to change the world would have seemed a completely absurd idea → Read More
A Great Custodian of the Collective Imagination
In the 50th episode of the From What Is To What If podcast Rob Hopkins discusses the role of imagination in our movements with adrienne maree brown. → Read More
Stories from the movement: Transition Toronto
Transition Toronto have found their niche, and are focusing on projects with a very real impact on the city. → Read More
Reflections on tsunamis, determination and a week in Glasgow
We’re all here in Glasgow, as you’ll have noticed, for COP26, which while it’s the 26th COP, is really the last COP that matters → Read More
Talking Radical Imagination with Max Haiven
The radical imagination is something that emerges when people come together to struggle against the reality that they’ve been forced into. → Read More
What if young people reimagined the education system?
I was joined by Yumna Hussen and Lottie Cooke to discuss what a reimagined education system would be like, to explore. → Read More
How the ‘From What If to What Next’ podcast came to be
The idea that excited me about from What If to What Next was to make a very different kind of space in which to explore important ideas. → Read More
Hide Enomoto on his new book about the story of Transition in Japan
Hide Enomoto is one of the pioneers of the Japanese Transition movement, both in his community and in supporting the national movement. → Read More
From What If to What Next: Kate Soper and Tim Jackson
Might this be the time to forever do away with the idea that the only way to measure our progress, cultural, social, spiritual, economic, is purely by how much bigger our economy is than it was last year? → Read More
The Tale of the Camden Future Journal
What if… we would persuade our local newspaper to publish a wraparound containing community visions and stories written from the year 2030? → Read More
From What If to What Next: with Dr. Wanda Wyporska and Chuck Collins
In my latest podcast we are exploring how it would be if Feeney’s thinking were to be embraced by those holding the vast reserves of money that the world needs to address its complex problems right now. What if they shifted and recognised the need to let go of what they’re holding onto? And how would it feel to do so? → Read More
What if a revolution in our relation to land unlocked a revolution of the imagination?
In today’s episode we bring together Josina Calliste, a health professional and community organiser who is one of the co-founders of Land in Our Names (LION), a black-led collective addressing land inequalities affecting black people and people of colour’s ability to farm and grow food in Britain, and Chris Smaje, author of the book ‘A Small Farm Future‘ and the brilliant blog of the same name. → Read More
What If? there was a daily imagination lesson?
The imagination is radical. It is the only way to get us beyond what is and to get us to what if. It can get us beyond business as usual → Read More
Some reflections on the difference between ‘Yes, but’ and ‘Yes, and’
‘A Walk of What If’ was an ask to think of as many ideas for how Patagonia could act as though this was a climate and ecological emergency. → Read More
Why the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill could lead to a revolution of the imagination
One of the rays of sunshine in the UK’s currently bleak political landscape is the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. I urge you to get behind it → Read More