Rob Hopkins
@robintransition.bsky.social
Imagination Catalyst & Time Traveller. 'From What Is to What If'. Speaker, podcaster, Transition. 'Field Recordings from the Future'. He/Him. 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' coming soon from Chelsea Green Publishing (May 2025). #imagination #climate
We've built a Time Machine. And it works! More news coming soon. Watch this space.
April 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We've built a Time Machine. And it works! More news coming soon. Watch this space.
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Rob’s book is out soon! 💚 @robintransition.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Rob’s book is out soon! 💚 @robintransition.bsky.social
A new drypoint etching of light in the trees near my house. #printmaking #drypoint
April 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A new drypoint etching of light in the trees near my house. #printmaking #drypoint
Just finished recording the audiobook of 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' which will be available same time the book comes out, June 17th. I hope you'll enjoy it! Thanks to Rowland O'Connor, Sorting Room Studios, sage and honey tea for preserving my voice and @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social.
April 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Just finished recording the audiobook of 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' which will be available same time the book comes out, June 17th. I hope you'll enjoy it! Thanks to Rowland O'Connor, Sorting Room Studios, sage and honey tea for preserving my voice and @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social.
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5) Power of Now - Elkhart Tolle
6) Technofuedalism - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
7) Critical - @jujuliagrace.bsky.social
8) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
9) Discourses, fragments, handbook - Epictetus
10) from What is to what if - @robintransition.bsky.social
6) Technofuedalism - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
7) Critical - @jujuliagrace.bsky.social
8) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
9) Discourses, fragments, handbook - Epictetus
10) from What is to what if - @robintransition.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
5) Power of Now - Elkhart Tolle
6) Technofuedalism - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
7) Critical - @jujuliagrace.bsky.social
8) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
9) Discourses, fragments, handbook - Epictetus
10) from What is to what if - @robintransition.bsky.social
6) Technofuedalism - @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
7) Critical - @jujuliagrace.bsky.social
8) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
9) Discourses, fragments, handbook - Epictetus
10) from What is to what if - @robintransition.bsky.social
New drypoint etching... Backstreet in Chefchaouen, Morocco. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been (blue ink).
March 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New drypoint etching... Backstreet in Chefchaouen, Morocco. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been (blue ink).
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Reaction from Transition Towns' founder @robintransition.bsky.social to the ec0-vandalism proposed by Dartington Trust and how YOU can make your views known. We should be fighting tooth and nail for initiatives like this, not seeing them trashed.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/like-using-t...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/like-using-t...
"Like using the Mona Lisa to mop up spilt wine..."
I’m incandescent, furious, overflowing with rage at Dartington Trust’s ability to continually make the wrong decisions, decisions that show they are out of touch with pretty much everything. In partic...
westcountryvoices.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reaction from Transition Towns' founder @robintransition.bsky.social to the ec0-vandalism proposed by Dartington Trust and how YOU can make your views known. We should be fighting tooth and nail for initiatives like this, not seeing them trashed.
westcountryvoices.co.uk/like-using-t...
westcountryvoices.co.uk/like-using-t...
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Co-hosting with residents an ecological justice event in NW5 today. #Communitrees Planting trees in estates and paying young people living in those estates to care for the trees. Let’s get young people off their screens and out into nature. @camdencouncil.bsky.social @robintransition.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Co-hosting with residents an ecological justice event in NW5 today. #Communitrees Planting trees in estates and paying young people living in those estates to care for the trees. Let’s get young people off their screens and out into nature. @camdencouncil.bsky.social @robintransition.bsky.social
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📢 Our Summer season is live, running April to July, with talks on how kindness is used to control women @glosswitch.bsky.social, rising inequality, an inspiring vision for the future @robintransition.bsky.social, true crime obsession and so much more!
🎟️ Book now: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/
🎟️ Book now: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/
March 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
📢 Our Summer season is live, running April to July, with talks on how kindness is used to control women @glosswitch.bsky.social, rising inequality, an inspiring vision for the future @robintransition.bsky.social, true crime obsession and so much more!
🎟️ Book now: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/
🎟️ Book now: www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/
May 1st, this is happening in Totnes.
March 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
May 1st, this is happening in Totnes.
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"Our ability to organise and resist is vital, but I believe now more than ever that our true strength lies in our ability to cultivate longing, to build awesome Desire Machines.” @robintransition.bsky.social
- Rob Hopkins www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w... #solarpunk #ImagineBetter
- Rob Hopkins www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w... #solarpunk #ImagineBetter
Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my im…
www.robhopkins.net
March 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"Our ability to organise and resist is vital, but I believe now more than ever that our true strength lies in our ability to cultivate longing, to build awesome Desire Machines.” @robintransition.bsky.social
- Rob Hopkins www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w... #solarpunk #ImagineBetter
- Rob Hopkins www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w... #solarpunk #ImagineBetter
Thrilled to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' with you. To be published June 17th by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. Cover designed by linocut master Aga Kubish (agakubish.com). Really delighted with how it turned out.
March 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Thrilled to be able to share the cover of my forthcoming book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future' with you. To be published June 17th by @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social. Cover designed by linocut master Aga Kubish (agakubish.com). Really delighted with how it turned out.
A fabulous article pouring beautifully poetic scorn on Musk's 'colonise Mars' horseshit, about "the Earth uninhabitable for the sake of leaving it for someplace even worse". You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why anyone believes this nonsense: defector.com/neither-elon...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A fabulous article pouring beautifully poetic scorn on Musk's 'colonise Mars' horseshit, about "the Earth uninhabitable for the sake of leaving it for someplace even worse". You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder why anyone believes this nonsense: defector.com/neither-elon...
Date for your diary London folks! On June 26th, 6.30-8pm, at Conway Hall, I will be launching my new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future: a time traveller's guide to changing the world'. It'll be a delightful evening. Don't miss out, book now! www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
How to Fall in Love with the Future - Conway Hall
There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—quantum threads stretching out into the distance. In this special event and launch of his new book How to Fall in Love with the Fu...
www.conwayhall.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Date for your diary London folks! On June 26th, 6.30-8pm, at Conway Hall, I will be launching my new book 'How to Fall in Love with the Future: a time traveller's guide to changing the world'. It'll be a delightful evening. Don't miss out, book now! www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
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"Fascists like Musk and Trump hate creativity, imagination, daring, playfulness, people who speak of dreams and build pictures of a future predicated in decency, compassion, courage, connection."
Let's envision and exemplify the better future we want together because we can't let dystopias win. 💭🌱🌄🤩
Let's envision and exemplify the better future we want together because we can't let dystopias win. 💭🌱🌄🤩
"I’m digging out my toolbox and heading to the garage to start building a Desire Machine. Who’s joining me?" My latest article is a call to arms for futurists, Time Machine builders, creatives, artists, activists, poets, street artists and ... you. www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w...
Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my im…
www.robhopkins.net
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Fascists like Musk and Trump hate creativity, imagination, daring, playfulness, people who speak of dreams and build pictures of a future predicated in decency, compassion, courage, connection."
Let's envision and exemplify the better future we want together because we can't let dystopias win. 💭🌱🌄🤩
Let's envision and exemplify the better future we want together because we can't let dystopias win. 💭🌱🌄🤩
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Let us dream of a desirable future... I'm all in.
"I’m digging out my toolbox and heading to the garage to start building a Desire Machine. Who’s joining me?" My latest article is a call to arms for futurists, Time Machine builders, creatives, artists, activists, poets, street artists and ... you. www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w...
Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my im…
www.robhopkins.net
February 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Let us dream of a desirable future... I'm all in.
"I’m digging out my toolbox and heading to the garage to start building a Desire Machine. Who’s joining me?" My latest article is a call to arms for futurists, Time Machine builders, creatives, artists, activists, poets, street artists and ... you. www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w...
Why The War on Dreams Must Inspire Us to Build the Greatest Desire Machines the World Has Ever Seen
When I was about 18, I read Angela Carter’s extraordinary 1972 novel ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, and in these dark days as my 57th birthday approaches it comes back into my im…
www.robhopkins.net
February 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"I’m digging out my toolbox and heading to the garage to start building a Desire Machine. Who’s joining me?" My latest article is a call to arms for futurists, Time Machine builders, creatives, artists, activists, poets, street artists and ... you. www.robhopkins.net/2025/02/27/w...
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract: theconversation.com/greenlands-r...
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract
Melting ice, thawing permafrost and crumbling fjord walls are just a few of the risks climate change poses for those living and working in Greenland.
theconversation.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract: theconversation.com/greenlands-r...
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Just re-listened to this timely podcast. On imagination, activism and longing.
When radical imagination is required
With @robintransition.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/05Jo...
When radical imagination is required
With @robintransition.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/05Jo...
EP 5 Activism and Imagination: Rob Hopkins and Michael Datura Discuss Longing, Storytelling, and Fighting for Just Futures
Cultivating imagination · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Just re-listened to this timely podcast. On imagination, activism and longing.
When radical imagination is required
With @robintransition.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/05Jo...
When radical imagination is required
With @robintransition.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/05Jo...
New drypoint etching. The coastal path at Prussia Cove, Cornwall.
February 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
New drypoint etching. The coastal path at Prussia Cove, Cornwall.
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At the NFTS, we’re committed to reducing our environmental impact. As part of #NFTSSpringboard2025, we welcomed activist/writer/producer @robintransition.bsky.social for an inspiring talk placing positive environmental practices at the forefront of our students' minds.
January 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
At the NFTS, we’re committed to reducing our environmental impact. As part of #NFTSSpringboard2025, we welcomed activist/writer/producer @robintransition.bsky.social for an inspiring talk placing positive environmental practices at the forefront of our students' minds.
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
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BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
January 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.
This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.
Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.