Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Transition Handbook, The Transition Companion, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, 21 Stories of Transition and most recently, From What Is to What If: unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want. They even created a Civic Imagination Office to better inspire and support the imaginations of local communities, and to enable their ideas to become reality.

From What Is to What If – Kosmos Journal From What Is to What If – Kosmos Journal

Subscribers are already at least one episode further into this series than those that have been made available here. I pass what used to be one of the district’s supermarkets, most of which closed down about ten years ago. It's a daunting challenge, and it will be impossible unless we can imagine what a low-carbon, high-cohesion society looks like-not on paper, but in our towns and neighborhoods day-to-day. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer.What Next is an online summit being developed with CTRLshift that will bring all this thinking together. We might be focused these days on how we are only nine meals from anarchy, but there are stories from throughout history about how rapid transitions lead to ingenuity, flourishing, imagination and togetherness.

From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagin…

He has seen it happen around the world and in his own town of Totnes, England, where the community is becoming its own housing developer, energy company, enterprise incubator, and local food network—with cascading benefits to the community that extend far beyond the projects themselves.

Now would be a great time to check in with your Transition group to think about how you might engage with the events, as well as the seed-funding opportunities which will be announced in November. Times of great change invite us to rethink where we are at and what might need to be transformed in our communities. There’s a playfulness too, as the author explores how art, or storytelling, or improv, or building imaginary streets out of cardboard boxes can help to crack open new possibilities.