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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

254) Rob Hopkins: Practicing eco-visualizations to go "from what is to what if"

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network and the author of From What Is to What If?, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. 

In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on how we can use visualization practices to fuel our activism work; what transition towns are and how they've been working towards decarbonization in their own culturally and bioregionally appropriate ways; and more.

 

Featured music of the month: Yarrow by Kim Anderson

Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/254

Weekly solutions-based news: www.greendreamer.com 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/greendreamerpodcast

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If communities had too much power from their perspective, they would be saying,

1:39.1

actually, I think we've probably got enough Starbucks now. And actually, no, if you're going

1:42.9

to build houses in our town, they need to be affordable homes and they need to be ecological homes and actually we

1:48.7

don't want this and we want that and and growth-based capitalism doesn't really like communities

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