Transition Culture

Well done! I shared it on reddit, it’s a great introduction into the transition concepts.

This wasn’t easy Rob, That stage must be very scaring, but you did a great job, bravo. We will add Italian subtitles as soon as possible.

Brilliant Rob

Great stuff Rob!

Thanks so much for this talk. I have just listened and watched – another keynote listener – as I prepare myself to wirte an introduction to a new transition town (we hope) in the inner west of Sydney, Australia.

Janet Millington and Vicki Ferekos have facilitated our training as tt facilitators.

Terrific! I will use it in the Transition Perspectives film series I am planning! (and you did great, I think – covered all the bases, really clear, and at warp speed!… Well done!

Thank you

I thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your TED talk, Rob. It was very reassuring to me. You have truth and love coming out of your skin, it seems to me.

Also check out Amy Seidl’s book “Early Spring.” And her new work is all about adaptation.

Good work Rob. No easy task giving a TED talk yet I suspect yours was one of the more realistic talks of the day. Great stuff, we’re proud of you! 🙂

[…] November 27, 2009 Rob Hopkins at TED Posted by Jeremy under film, transition towns | Tags: rob hopkins, TED | Leave a Comment  I see the TED folks have uploaded Rob Hopkins’ talk from this year’s conference. It’s a great introduction to the problems of oil depletion and the need to tell a better story than the usual doom and gloom – the transition story. If you like it, you can go and tell Rob here. […]

Thanks Rob and well done, very well put together clear and very informative, even for those who have been living Transition, should get a lot out of this , it refreshed me and brought me back to the essence of transition.

Gratefully
vinnie

Very inspiring. Thank you.

[…] It is true that once the price of oil becomes sufficiently high then oil that is more difficult to extract becomes viable, but the demand for oil at present is so high that these relatively small extra reserves will only add another year or so before the peak is reached.  Also it is often claimed that oil from tar sands or from coal conversion will make a big difference.  A further problem arises here: these are very dirty processes and much CO2 is given off – which doesn’t do a great deal for climate change!  Also the energy input needed becomes comparable to the energy output from burning the oil, i.e. the net energy return becomes very small (some claim that it becomes negative). More info can be found at http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php   Rob hopkins has an inspiring video at https://www.transitionculture.org/2009/11/25/my-ted-talk-now-online/ […]

Thanks, well done, very well put together clear and very informative, always with a positive sound! It refreshed me and brought me back to the essence of transition. We start, Why wait, change now. In the Netherlands we also have a great amount of TT initiatives, it’s so great to feel connected with the other TT-Keep up the great work, and thanx for sharing. We’ll translate this also in Dutch ….

Godelieve Engbersen
The Netherlands, Transition Town Tilburg (i.o.)

A huge wealth of excellent points made – brilliantly done. One point that, if I may, I would like to add is that of efficiency.

As it is now, the whole way that our socio-economic model works is horribly inefficient. Eight percent of working-age citizens in the UK are unemployed, our cars are waste three-quarters of the energy we pump into them, our power stations are throwing over one thousand kilowatts of useful heat out of their cooling towers every second… all products of a bloated, badly designed, unjust system – and one which isn’t going to work for much longer.

Thanks all….

Rob… nervous? I thought your presentation went flawlessly.

Hear, hear Rob. My own private “sermons” would benefit greatly from the knowledge and speaking style that you obviously have in spades. I’m ecstatic that I can share your speech with everyone I know and let your words (hopefully) convince them where mine have failed. THANK YOU.

Al Gore* eat your heart out. This is the stuff of real solutions.. and in a way that feeds the heart, mind and soul.

*No offense to Mr Gore but this goes WAY beyond switching a cfl for a lightbulb as a path to sustainability.

You didn’t appear nervous at all! Not only did you do a great job, but the presentation itself was well organized, inspiring, and hopeful.

You’ve laid out a time-line to change the world!

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