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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), 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.
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.
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.
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