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
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Thanks, the session worked great. Many good ideas came back to 2025.
Hopefully it’s safe to work without a helmet?
Hopefully it’s safe to work without a helmet?
December 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thanks, the session worked great. Many good ideas came back to 2025.
Hopefully it’s safe to work without a helmet?
Hopefully it’s safe to work without a helmet?
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Enjoying this book by @robintransition.bsky.social
His deep dive into the concept of “longing” really got me thinking about desire, hope, fear and love
A 🧵 of rambling thoughts
#HTFILWTF
His deep dive into the concept of “longing” really got me thinking about desire, hope, fear and love
A 🧵 of rambling thoughts
#HTFILWTF
December 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Enjoying this book by @robintransition.bsky.social
His deep dive into the concept of “longing” really got me thinking about desire, hope, fear and love
A 🧵 of rambling thoughts
#HTFILWTF
His deep dive into the concept of “longing” really got me thinking about desire, hope, fear and love
A 🧵 of rambling thoughts
#HTFILWTF
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Reflecting on how creative work, imagination and ideation is part of building collective solidarity and direct actions. Reading Emerging Strategy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and How to Fall in Love With the Future by @robintransition.bsky.social feel in conversation with one another.
January 11, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Reflecting on how creative work, imagination and ideation is part of building collective solidarity and direct actions. Reading Emerging Strategy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and How to Fall in Love With the Future by @robintransition.bsky.social feel in conversation with one another.
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En route to @ukgovcamp.com!
Picked up an optimistic book about imagining the future we want by @robintransition.bsky.social
Impromptu platform camp with @jukes.ie ahead of the cross country train
Grateful for my lovely friend for dropping me at the station before their lecture in Southmead ⭐
Picked up an optimistic book about imagining the future we want by @robintransition.bsky.social
Impromptu platform camp with @jukes.ie ahead of the cross country train
Grateful for my lovely friend for dropping me at the station before their lecture in Southmead ⭐
January 17, 2026 at 8:32 AM
En route to @ukgovcamp.com!
Picked up an optimistic book about imagining the future we want by @robintransition.bsky.social
Impromptu platform camp with @jukes.ie ahead of the cross country train
Grateful for my lovely friend for dropping me at the station before their lecture in Southmead ⭐
Picked up an optimistic book about imagining the future we want by @robintransition.bsky.social
Impromptu platform camp with @jukes.ie ahead of the cross country train
Grateful for my lovely friend for dropping me at the station before their lecture in Southmead ⭐
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Magical reads of the last few months, positive, uplifting,challenging and makes you feel much better in this day&age. Thanks you to all these wonderful people. @hannahritchie.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com @robintransition.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Magical reads of the last few months, positive, uplifting,challenging and makes you feel much better in this day&age. Thanks you to all these wonderful people. @hannahritchie.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @rutgerbregman.com @robintransition.bsky.social
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Het is een interessante avond als je merkt dat de voorstelling van @pieterderks.bsky.social in wezen niet veel verschilt van de avond met @robintransition.bsky.social
We verlangen naar een positief beeld van de toekomst.
transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-i...
We verlangen naar een positief beeld van de toekomst.
transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-i...
Tijdreizen in Amsterdam - Verliefd op de toekomst - Transitie Nederland
Dit weekend van 14-16 november maakten zo’n 200 mensen in Nederland een tijdreis naar 2030. En wat voor een reis! Dankzij de tijdmachine van Rob Hopkins reisden we samen naar het jaar 2030 — een toeko...
transitiontowns.nl
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Het is een interessante avond als je merkt dat de voorstelling van @pieterderks.bsky.social in wezen niet veel verschilt van de avond met @robintransition.bsky.social
We verlangen naar een positief beeld van de toekomst.
transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-i...
We verlangen naar een positief beeld van de toekomst.
transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-i...
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🎙️Inspired by our guest, @robintransition.bsky.social author of How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, listeners share their visions of the future. What are yours?
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/running-joyf...
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/running-joyf...
Running Joyfully Toward the Future - WORT-FM 89.9
Today's guest, Rob Hopkins asks, what would our activism look like if we had a longing for the future? He joins Esty Dinur to talk about his new book.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🎙️Inspired by our guest, @robintransition.bsky.social author of How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World, listeners share their visions of the future. What are yours?
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/running-joyf...
Listen here: www.wortfm.org/running-joyf...
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Zo’n 200 mensen reisden dit weekend in Amsterdam naar 2030 met @robintransition.bsky.social. We zagen een toekomst vol verbinding, natuur, lokaal voedsel en veerkracht, veel veerkracht.
En we zijn hier al mee bezig — en we zijn met steeds meer.
👉 transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-in-amsterdam/
En we zijn hier al mee bezig — en we zijn met steeds meer.
👉 transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-in-amsterdam/
Tijdreizen in Amsterdam - Verliefd op de toekomst - Transitie Nederland
Dit weekend van 14-16 november maakten zo’n 200 mensen in Nederland een tijdreis naar 2030. En wat voor een reis! Dankzij de tijdmachine van Rob Hopkins reisden we samen naar het jaar 2030 — een toeko...
transitiontowns.nl
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Zo’n 200 mensen reisden dit weekend in Amsterdam naar 2030 met @robintransition.bsky.social. We zagen een toekomst vol verbinding, natuur, lokaal voedsel en veerkracht, veel veerkracht.
En we zijn hier al mee bezig — en we zijn met steeds meer.
👉 transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-in-amsterdam/
En we zijn hier al mee bezig — en we zijn met steeds meer.
👉 transitiontowns.nl/tijdreizen-in-amsterdam/
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…
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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.