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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). Rob is a Trustee of the Soil Association (U.K.), the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, and a Fellow of Ashoka International.
Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins speaks for the first time in detail about Totnes as a case study, and what, after 6 years, we can draw from the experience of Transition Town Totnes. From TEDX Exeter.
A special show to celebrate the launch of the new ‘Transition Companion’ book, featuring an interview with the author and co-founder of the Transition Movement, Rob Hopkins.
Due to some technical issues at Stroud FM, we sadly don’t have the first 15 minutes of this show available for listen again. As Stroud FM’s recording equipment wasn’t working at the start of the show, the show begins mid-way through Rob’s first musical choice – Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem – chosen partly because it namechecks some of the bands Rob didn’t have time to play tracks by. You canread about what happened in the quarter hour that wasn’t recorded here.
What might we learn from the construction, between 1438 and 1448 of the Hospital of St. John in Sherborne (see above) that might shape the way we think about construction in the 21st century? While the bulk of the building … >>
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 … >>
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 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 … >>
Post Carbon Fellows Rob Hopkins and Bill McKibben were included in this article about the recent Schumacher 2011 Centenary Festival. From the article: Rob Hopkins, the founder of Transition, described a localisation drive … >>
Richard Heinberg explains why we've hit the end of economic growth as we've known it, and what life can be like after growth.
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