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Rob Hopkins

Totnes
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Imagination Catalyst & Time Traveller. 'From What Is to What If'. Speaker, Transition. 'Field Recordings from the Future'. He/Him. @robintransition.bsky.social
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A day so hot that even a Pan Galactic Gargleblaster can’t help

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By Rob Hopkins
| news.transitionnetwork.org
Originally posted on Rob's website www.robhopkins.net On the hottest day in May ever recorded in the UK, breaking the previous record not by a fraction of a degree as usually happens, but smashing it by a full 2 degrees, I headed to Stalbridge in Dorset for the annual Don’t Panic Festival. Stalbridge is where Douglas Adams wrote most of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ and the festival is an annual celebration of his legacy. And damn it was hot, somewhere north of 32 degrees.
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Annaïg bringing change to Plabannec, France

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By Rob Hopkins
| news.transitionnetwork.org
Plabennec is a small town in the north west of France. Two years ago, a young woman called Annaïg Plassard, originally from Plabennec but who had spent the previous few years living in Nantes, came to visit me in Totnes. She was inspired by my time travel work, and by Transition, and was making a film for French TV about moving back to Plabennec to initiate a Transition initiative. The resultant film, ‘Retour a Plabennec’ was shown last year and is beautiful.
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A Call To Makers, Hackers, Designers, Engineers And Artists

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By Rob Hopkins
| Popular Resistance
December 16, 2025 Create! Above photo: The Time Machine movie poster. Public Domain. I don’t need to tell you the scale and urgency of the crisis unfolding around us right now. You can see it. You can feel it. It’s unimaginable that it might have somehow passed you by. It almost certainly gives you regular sleepless nights.
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