Rob Hopkins

Fellow, Community Preparedness

Communities

Rob Hopkins is the originator of the Transition Town concept, which promotes community-driven responses to peak oil that focus on cooperative effort to meet basic needs as sustainably and close to home as possible. In just a few years, his work has inspired an international movement of hundreds of communities and thousands of people pursuing Transition initiatives. A teacher of permaculture and natural building techniques, Rob is co-founder of the Transition Network, and author of The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience (2008), and The Transition Companion (2011). He was the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow, served 3 years as a Trustee of the Soil Association, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists

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Potentiale der Transition Town-Bewegung zur Gestatltung einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft

length: 1:25:13   credit: Transition Bonn   Mar 20, 2013

On 27 February 2013 the University of Bonn invited Transition Bonn to take part in an event titled "The potential of the Transition Town movement to build a sustainable society." Among the speakers were Transition founder Rob Hopkins, filmmaker Nils Aguilar, and representing Transition Germany Gerd Wessling. Rob Hopkin's speech is in English.

German intro from YouTube:
Am 27. Februar 2013 laden die Universität Bonn und die Transition-Initiative Bonn im Wandel ein zu Vortrag, Film und Gespräch in den Hörsaal 10 des Uni-Hauptgebäudes -- Titel des Abends: „Potentiale der TransitionTown-Bewegung zur Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft".

Im Austausch mit dem aus England anreisenden TT-Initiator Rob Hopkins, dem Filmemacher Nils Aguilar sowie Gerd Wessling als Vertreter des deutschen Transition-Netzwerks zeigt die Bonner Gruppe, die seit einem Jahr aktiv ist, Grundgedanken der Bewegung auf und Möglichkeiten selbst aktiv zu werden. Es ist der erste Auftritt von Rob Hopkins in Deutschland.

 

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Rob Hopkins: Sustainability and Community

length: 15:00   credit: BBC Radio 4: Four Thoughtdownload   Nov 18, 2012

The influential founder of the Transition Towns movement Rob Hopkins argues for a new approach to energy, society and our surroundings - with the help of a bottle of beer and a ten pound note bearing a picture of David Bowie. Four Thought is a series of talks combining personal stories with fresh arguments, recorded in front of an audience at the RSA in London.

Latest Publications

Why even the G8 prefer vibrant, diverse local economies really…

Rob Hopkins    Jun 12, 2013   

  If there was one picture that captured the times we are living through it is this.  It appeared on the BBC website recently with the following caption: Kevin McGuire walks his dog past a vacant shop … >>

Interview with Rob Hopkins on In Transition 2.0

Rob Hopkins    Apr 24, 2012   

Jonny Gordon-Farleigh from STIR interviews Rob Hopkins To mark the release of In Transition 2.0 — an inspirational film about communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and … >>

BUILDING RESILIENCE: What Can Communities Do?

Rob Hopkins    Sep 13, 2010   

EXCERPT: Community matters when we are looking for responses to peak oil and climate change because of the power that emerges from working together and creating meaningful change through shared action. In a world where … >>

The Transition Companion

Rob Hopkins

The Transition Companion draws on over three years’ experience of the worldwide Transition movement and gives a new, easily accessible approach to creating change.  It builds on the success of the bestselling … >>

press coverage

Hopkins blog on flying reviewed at Treehugger

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Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins' recent decision to fly again (albeit only in special cases) drew this response from Sami Grover at Treehugger. From the article: Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am 100% convinced that Rob is … >>