Fwd: How to Fall in Love with the Future - new book by Rob Hopkins
Sustainable Delaware Ohio
May 13, 2025 3:20:29 PM Darrell Koerner <DKoe...@chelseagreen.com>:
Sustainable Delaware Ohio,
Chelsea Green Publishing author Rob Hopkins’s new book How to Fall in Love with the Future will be available in the US on September 16, 2025.
Rob is available for virtual presentations and please contact me if you’re interested in discussing a potential event with your organization.
How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World
Book info
- Title: How to Fall in Love with the Future
- Author: Rob Hopkins
- ISBN: 9781915294517
- List Price: $29.95 hardcover
- On sale date: September 16, 2025
- Catalog page: https://www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/book/?isbn=9781915294517
- Author website: https://www.robhopkins.net/
Book Description
- In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of daily life, climate activist and Transition Network cofounder Rob Hopkins responded the way a lot of people did: by starting a podcast. But it wasn’t any ordinary podcast. In each episode, Hopkins and his guests would “time travel” together to the year 2030—walking down imagined future streets, talking with imagined future neighbors, visiting imagined future local businesses. While Hopkins’s guests came from all walks of life—economists, politicians, bakers, comedians, novelists and more—they all shared a willingness to suspend their worries about the future long enough to mentally inhabit and then describe a world they were thrilled to be a part of. What Hopkins discovered was no less profound: this simple exercise of visiting a positive future forced him to rethink the work he’d been doing as a climate activist for decades.
How to Fall in Love with the Future is the result of that radical disruption—and Hopkins’s deep dive into the people and movements throughout history who have used visions of the future to inspire positive change on a large and dramatic scale. From the life and writings of musician Sun Ra and the history of Black utopian movements to the latest neuroscience on what goes on in our minds—and hearts—when we “time travel,” Hopkins brings essential new thinking to anyone overwhelmed with dread and anxiety for the future. He asks us to consider: what would the world look like if we all got to work imagining—and then building—a world we were deeply in love with?
Author Bio
- Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Network and Transition Town Totnes. He is the author of several books, including The Transition Handbook and most recently, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want. An Ashoka Fellow, Hopkins has spoken at TED Global and several TEDx events, and he appeared in the French film phenomenon Demain. He holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth, as well as 2 honoris causas. Hopkins is a director of Totnes Community Development Society, and he runs ‘Imagination Catalyst’ trainings for a wide range of organisations, including Balenciaga and Patagonia. He hosted the podcast From What If to What Next and has collaborated with musician Mr. Kit on a music project called Field Recordings from the Future, due out in 2025. In November 2022, he was made an Honorary Citizen of Liège, Belgium, by the mayor of the city.
Praise
- “No one makes environmental optimism more credible or compelling than Rob Hopkins. Read this and don’t weep.”
—Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef and campaigner
- “Rob Hopkins is one of the world’s great optimists. He really believes that things can get better, and, when he’s around, they usually do. This book will lift your spirits and give you hope.”
—Brian Eno, musician, producer and artist
- “This is exactly the book we need: it barges despair aside and reveals the many different and wonderful ways we could be.”
—George Monbiot, Guardian columnist; author of Regenesis
- “It’s easy to know what we’re fighting against: climate breakdown, social inequality and the destruction of nature. What’s harder, and arguably more important, is to get clear on what we’re fighting for. Rob has a gift of illuminating the better future that is possible and, critically, showing us where pockets of that future already live in the present. I shall carry around his latest book to ward off doom and despair and to remind myself of just what is possible when we allow ourselves to imagine.”
—Clover Hogan, climate activist; founder, Force of Nature
Chelsea Green Publishing is now an imprint of Rizzoli International Publications and our books are distributed by Penguin Random House.
Feel free to contact me if you’re interested in having Rob speak to your organization.
Thank you,
Darrell Koerner
Specialty Sales and Events Manager
Chelsea Green Publishing
303.963.5612 office
303.514.8607 cell
303.993.4519 fax
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