Under the rubric ‘Sustainable Sidmouth’, the VGS is a member of the Transition Town movement – and has been so since the earliest days of both the group and the movement. 

About the same time, the Ecologist magazine did a piece on Rob Hopkins & The Transition Experiment, looking at how it all started with the founder of what has become quite a thing.

He has always been keen on the power of imagination – and a couple of years ago he gave an interview with the Guardian giving us 10 ways to imagine our way out of the climate crisis, ‘from the ‘food belt’ co-ops of Liège to Tooting’s pop-up village green and London as a giant park’.

Rob’s latest foray into imagining better times suggests how to fall in love with the future: the antidote to dread and despair. And as Anthea Simmons writing in West Country Voices says:

Let me start by saying straight off that I think everyone should read this book. If you are feeling bleak and despairing about the future of the planet, or utterly disgusted about the seemingly inexorable rise of the far right or just plain fed up with the way things are, then you definitely need this book, because it’s going to act like a real tonic in these dark times and will have you fired up to help bring about change.

And for a little more, here is an excerpt courtesy of the Resilience magazine – of How to Fall in Love with the Future

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