From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
| Title | From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Hopkins, Rob |
| Pagination | 229 pp. |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
| Place Published | . White River Junction, VT/London |
| ISBN Number | 978-1603589055 |
| Keywords | English author, Irish author, Male author |
| Annotation | The book begins with a brief eutopia that the author says isn’t one because it still rains, and people don’t always get along. The eutopia follows its protagonist through a day in his life in a town completely transformed into a one in tune with nature and with good schooling and a town-meeting democracy that works. The rest of the book is on the ways cultivating imagination would improve life with a concluding essay entitled “What If All This Came to Pass?” (164-84, 214-16). |
| Info Notes | See the author's The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White River Junction, VT/London: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008; and The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. Totnes, Devon: Green Books, 2011. |
| Holding Institutions | PU |
| Author Note | The author was born and educated in England and has mostly lived there except for 1996-2005, when he lived in Ireland. From 2005, he has lived in Totnes, Devon, where he co-founded the first Transition Town. |
| Full Text | 2019 Hopkins, Rob (b. 1968). From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want. White River Junction, VT/London: Chelsea Green Publishing. 229 pp. PU The book begins with a brief eutopia that the author says isn’t one because it still rains, and people don’t always get along. The eutopia follows its protagonist through a day in his life in a town completely transformed into a one in tune with nature and with good schooling and a town-meeting democracy that works. The rest of the book is on the ways cultivating imagination would improve life with a concluding essay entitled “What If All This Came to Pass?” (164-84, 214-16). The author was born and educated in England and has mostly lived there except for 1996-2005, when he lived in Ireland. From 2005, he has lived in Totnes, Devon, where he co-founded the first Transition Town. See his The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. White River Junction, VT/London: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008; and The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. Totnes, Devon: Green Books, 2011. |
