Rob Hopkins

Sarah Corbett is the founder of the global social enterprise Craftivist Collective: creating universal products and services for people and organisations to do quiet, slow, transformative activism through craft. www.craftivist-collective.com

Lucy Neal is one of the founders of Transition Town Tooting and author of the forthcoming book 'Play for Time: Making Art as if the World Mattered", due to be published in early April by Oberon Books. Here she talked to Rob Hopkins about the book and what it looks like when art meets Transition.

Christophe is currently lead researcher for the Resources and Vectors theme of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). He recently co-authored a paper (with Paul Ekins) called "The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C", which is what we discuss with him here.

Pamela Boyce Simms is a Trainer for Transition US, convenes the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH) a six-state consortium that facilitates the collaboration of Transition Town initiatives throughout the region. She also directs the Woodstock, NY Timebank and serves on the Board of the Hudson Valley Current, a local alternative currency. You can read more about her at http://commonbound.org/speaker...

Jen and her partner Grant spent a year, from 2008 to 2009, pledges to "try to buy no more 'stuff' and produce zero landfill waste for one year". This meant, as they put it, "no buying clothing or DVDs, no make-up or i-pods, no fancy running shoes, sparkley headbands or duct tape, no plastic patio lanterns, saran wrap or handmade pottery mugs. . . . you get the idea". You can read more about it, an...

Pandora Thomas is a permaculture teacher and designer, a writer and a public speaker. She is a founder of the Black Permaculture Network, of the Pathways to Resilience training programme, is a co-founder of Earthseed Consulting, and much more besides. See more at http://www.pandorathomas.com/bio/.

On the final day of the Atmos Totnes consultation Hub's current incarnation, we asked visitors how they found it as an experience. www.atmostotnes.org

On Friday December 5th, Rob Hopkins of Transition Network was the subject of an unusual version of Desert Island Discs. He chose 8 songs which were performed live by the Global Harmony and Viva choirs, as well as local band The Bogg Boys. The evening was compered by local poet Matt Harvey as Rob told his life story, illustrated by his chosen songs. The songs were 'Femme Fatale' (Velvet Underground...

A range of voices from the Atmos Totnes Hub on Friday and Saturday 28-29th November 2014.

James Furze has taken a different route to trying to help the Littlehempston cycle path near Totnes a reality, but not as a campaigner, rather as a mediator. How does one mediate in a polarised conflict, and what skills does one need? http://www.littlehempstoncyclepath.co.uk/

Azby Brown is an architect and design theorist whose in-depth study of Japan provides inspiration for the future of sustainable urban living. Raised in New Orleans, Azby originally studied theater and dance until a series of chance opportunities led him to move to Tokyo and build a life and career devoted to smart design. He has written books profiling the ingenuity of space-constrained Japanese a...

Some of the people who attended the Hub on 21st and 22nd November 2014 share how they found the experience.

Etienne de Montlaur, is one of the founders of www.thefoodassembly.com/en, a brilliant new tool for localising local food economies. He told us what The Food Assembly is, and how it works.

We asked four visitors to the Atmos Totnes Hub how they found the experience. www.atmostotnes.org

We asked three visitors to the Atmos Totnes Hub, Richard, Sue and Peter, for their thoughts on visiting...

One of the elements of the Atmos Totnes Hub is Story Machine. What is it? We asked its creator, James Engwell.

Until December 6th, Atmos Totnes (www.atmostotnes.org) is holding its public consultation in the former Cocos Nursery on the site. Ruth Ben-Tovim of Encounters Arts gives us a walk through of the Hub, the different activities there, and how it differs from most planning consultations. We also meet some of those calling in.

To promote Ils Changent Le Monde, the French edition of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, Transition Network's Rob Hopkins spoke in Paris at the offices of Natureparif. The talk is translated into French.

André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn are architects and academics who specialise in the study and implementation of urban agriculture. They previously published 'CPULs Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing urban agriculture for sustainable cities', and their new book 'Second Nature Urban Agriculture' is a brilliant round-up of the case for urban agriculture.

Tony Greenham is Head of Finance and Business at NEF, leading the programme of research into reforming the financial sector and aligning the interests of society and business. He is also a Trustee of Transition Network.

Tony Greenham is Head of Finance and Business at NEF, leading the programme of research into reforming the financial sector and aligning the interests of society and business. In addition to the programme areas of banking reform, monetary policy, community currencies and sustainable financial markets, he has research interests in local and regional development, and post-growth economics. He is als...

Aniol Esteban is Head of Environmental Economics at New Economic Foundation. He works on wide range of topics, including fisheries, climate change, energy, ownership of natural resources, ecological limits and the links between the natural environment and well-being. As well as overseeing economics research, Aniol works to advance the goals of his team through policy, education and campaigning wor...

Paul Chatterton of the Lilac project ('Low Impact Living Affordable Community') in Leeds, a co-housing project built using strawbales to very high energy efficiency standards (read more at http://www.lilac.coop/). Here he talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins.

David Nobbs has written over 20 novels, for a range of leading British comedians, and also wrote The Fall and Rise of Reginal Perrin. His most recent novel, 'The Second Life of Sally Mottram', looks at what happens when the novel's hero tries to bring Transition to her struggling Yorkshire town.

Richard Louv is an American nonfiction author and journalist. He is best known for his seventh book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, which investigates the relationship of children and the natural world in current and historical contexts. Here he talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins via Skype.