Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins

Society EN ↓ 500 episodes

Every month we take a deeper look at 3 stories of what Transition initiatives are up to around the world.

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Rob Hopkins

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Society

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www.robhopkins.net

Latest episode

Aug 21, 2025

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Episodes

Rosie Boycott on scaling up urban agriculture in London 20.01.2014

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 improving health and in reducing the carbon emissions, which cause climate change. You can read more about Capital Growth at http://www.capitalgrowth.org/

Kevin McCabe on mainstreaming cob building (or not) 10.01.2014

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 much died out. His company, www.buildsomethingbeautiful.co.uk specialise in both new cob building and restoration of old ones. He is currently building the largest cob building ever built, which recently appeared on Channel 4's Grand Designs programme.

Chuck Collins on replacing "Transition" with "Cancer-Free" 09.01.2014

A fascinating discussion I had with Chuck Collins of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition in Boston about putting public health on the Transition agenda.

Nick Temple on scaling up social innovations 08.01.2014

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 enterprise, innovation and scaling up.

An interview with Annie Leonard about 'stuff' 10.12.2013

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 09.12.2013

Adam Corner is a Research Associate in the Understanding Risk research group at Cardiff University. His research looks at how people evaluate arguments and evidence, the communication of climate change, and the public understanding of emerging areas of science such as nanotechnologies and geoengineering. The interview focused on a recent article he wrote for Aeon magazine entitled 'Ad nauseam: the...

An interview with Oliver James 06.12.2013

Oliver James is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Occupational Psychologist, registered by the British Psychological Society. He is Britain's best known psychologist. He is author of 'Affluenza', 'The Selfish Capitalist' and, more recently, 'Love Bombing'. Here he speaks to Rob Hopkins of Transition Network.

Rupert Morrison of Drift Records on vinyl as "stuff" 02.12.2013

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, materialism and our local economies. http://thedriftrecordshop.net/

Ruth Potts on the New Materialism 28.11.2013

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' 22.11.2013

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. 18.11.2013

Frances Northrop is Transition in Action manager with Transition Town Totnes. Here she talks about how the organisation is responding to austerity in its work.

Austerity Basics 9: Is there an alternative, and if so, what is it? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 8: Who benefits from austerity? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 7: What will 'permanent austerity' look like in practice? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 6: Why is the flight of jobs to the private sector a problem? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 5: Can austerity ever be said to have worked anywhere? 18.11.2013

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? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 3: Is the UK's debt really historically unprecedented? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 2: Where does the idea come from? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

Austerity Basics 1: What is austerity? 18.11.2013

With James Meadway, Senior Economist at new economics foundation.

An interview with Doria Robinson of Urban Tilth, Richmond, San Francisco 16.11.2013

Doria Robinson is Executive Director of Urban Tilth, an organisation which cultivates agriculture in Richmond to help the community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system". She's amazing. In this interview she talks about social justice, urban agriculture, having Chevron as a neighbour and her thoughts on scaling up. www.urbantilth.org.

An interview with Pam Warhurst on austerity and Incredible Edible Todmorden 05.11.2013

Pam Warhurst of Incredible Edible Todmorden discusses the power of food growing, of the potential of food for reviving local economies, and as a response to austerity, with Rob Hopkins of Transition Network.

Rob Hopkins speaking at the Northern California Permaculture/Transition convergence 30.10.2013

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' 29.10.2013

Jeremy Leggett, founder of chairman of Solar Century and Solar Aid, as well as of the financial think tank Carbon Tracker, speaks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins. He is the author of the newly-published 'The Energy of Nations: risk blindness and the road to renaissance'. http://www.routledge.com/energy/articles/the_energy_of_nations_by_jeremy_leggett/

An interview with Tim Lang on food and austerity 28.10.2013

Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University London's Centre for Food Policy since 2002.

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