Transition Towns with Rob Hopkins

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, we hear from Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel. We chatted about transition towns and how they resemble cell membranes, the power of stories, and craft beer. (Listen closely you'll hear the ambient sounds of whistling and laughter of the students of Schumacher College!)Thank you to Jacob Rask for conducting this interview.

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello you are listening to an upstream interview which is part of the Economics for Transition Project.
0:29.0	In this interview, Jacob Rask speaks with Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Town Movement.
0:37.0	To hear more interviews and episodes, please visit
0:40.0	www. Economics for Transition.org.
0:45.0	Welcome.
0:51.0	Thank you.
0:52.0	Maybe we can just begin by you telling a little bit about yourself for people who are not aware of transition towns and Rop Hopkins and as a way of introduction.
1:03.0	So my name is Rob Hopkins.
1:05.0	I live just over the road here in Darlington in Devon.
1:09.0	I'm one of the co-founders of Transition Town-Tot Ness, which is the initiative here.
1:15.0	I'm one of the co-founders of Transition Network, which is the organization that now supports
1:21.8	transition in more than 50 countries around the world. the organization of about 12 people that provides inspiration and training and
1:30.5	networking and support for transition groups around the world.
1:33.2	I'm a director of the Totnes Community Development Society which is the organization
1:37.8	doing the Atmos project here in Totness which is a hugely exciting community
1:41.4	led development. I'm a director of the New Lion
1:44.0	brewery which is a fantastic craft brewery here in Tottness. It's like a
1:48.4	social enterprise brewery. I've written several books and I blog a lot and I'm on Twitter and I've got kids and I have
1:58.8	a garden and I grow food and I ride a bicycle.
2:04.0	And so if we walk back in time to when you first came to Tottenez and when you started
2:12.0	transition town, can you tell a bit about how you got that idea and what sparked?
2:17.0	Well, I moved to Tottness in 2005, kind of with the seeds of transition in my mind but it wasn't called
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