Green Drinks & Discussion Evening

Hosted by Sustaining Dunbar This is a roughly bi-monthly meet-up/social and discussion evening with a focus around a particular book, podcast, article etc….We are still trying to find the most suitable venue (without too much background noise for those of us who are a bit hard of hearing) and this time we’re trying out the bar at Hallhill Sports Centre. This time we will be focussing the discussion around Rob Hopkin’s book ‘How to Fall in Love with the Future‘. “There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. 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.” All welcome (whether you have read the book or not)!