How to Fall in Love with the Future: Excerpt
“This book will lift your spirits and give you hope”
– Brian Eno
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What if we had a Transition Enabling Act?
At a time when we are inundated with news of the end of the world, ideas of the way through are crucial. This one is brilliant – legislation that would enable all the things we need for Transition to happen. The great potential here is for change in a climate-meaningful timeframe.
Book Review: David Holmgren’s ‘RetroSuburbia’
The ‘what if?’ at the heart of RetroSuburbia is “what if our suburbs were reimagined and repurposed to be sustainable, productive and vibrant?” Good question. – Rob Hopkins
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Prince Louis and the perfect tweet.
Longing for a low carbon future
It’s the question that obsesses me, how to cultivate a deep cultural longing for a post-carbon, more just, more equal world?
– Transitions Town pioneer Rob Hopkins
What if… Dunedin no longer needed so much petrol?
It’s 2032, and we’re looking back at a decade of oil, climate and economic crisis, and how one city found a way through.
Hope Punk 2022
Here’s a kind of map to a future where things work out.
Covid recovery and bouncing forward
Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea of resilience. Usually framed as the ability to ‘bounce back’, it is seen in the Transition movement as being better imagined as the capacity to ‘bounce forward’, i.e. to use it as the opportunity to move forward to something better. How then to ‘bounce forward’ from COVID-19 in such a way that we also move to a way of doing things consistent with the scale of the climate crisis?