Rob Hopkins–My Town in Transition
Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. Through speaking, teaching, and writing, he has introduced the idea of making the places we live more resilient, robust, and imaginative in increasingly uncertain times through intentional effort at the community level. The Transition Town movement, which Rob originally started in Totnes, England, has now spread to hundreds of towns across thirty-four countries. [...]
David Suzuki Speaks About Exponential Growth
Robert Johnson, Strategies for a New Economy Conference
June 9, 2012
“Water and air are priced at zero, meaning in order to breathe, I don’t have to pay a tollgate. On the other hand, if you cut off my air and my water, I would be willing to pay to get it turned back on. So there’s something amiss in the theory of value that doesn’t value these common [...]
Alisa Gravitz, Strategies for a New Economy Conference
June 9, 2012
Alisa Gravitz, the long-time Executive Director of Green America, was invited to give a workshop and speak at a plenary session at the New Economics Institute’s Strategies for a New Economy conference. In the video below, she discusses how families and businesses can take action to shift their involvement from the conventional, “falling apart” economy to the vibrant [...]
Bob Massie at the Strategies for a New Economy Conference
“Something remarkable is happening here. I think we can all feel it… We are not only identifying what is wrong, but we are laying down the path to create what is right. Every one of us knows that things are out of balance… but also, living within us is a powerful desire, I would say an overwhelming desire, for renewal, [...]
