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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). Rob is a Trustee of the Soil Association (U.K.), the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, and a Fellow of Ashoka International.

videos

Rob Hopkins 2009 TED Talk

length: 16:40   credit: TED Homepage

PCI Fellow Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem — the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for life without oil and sacrifice our luxuries to build systems and communities that are completely independent of fossil fuels.

Latest Publications

Film Review: ‘Food Inc.'

Rob Hopkins    Feb 09, 2010   

At this year’s Soil Association conference I was chatting with Mike Small of the Fife Diet in Scotland. He told a story about how a film crew from Sky News came up to Fife to do a news story about their work. While … >>

Resilience Thinking

Rob Hopkins    Oct 29, 2009   

[Excerpt] Resilience; “the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganise while undergoing change, so as to retain essentially the same function, structure, identity and feedbacks” ...The term … >>

The Transition Handbook

Rob Hopkins

We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or … >>

press coverage

Hopkins interviewed in the New Scientist

Rob Hopkins  

Post Carbon Fellow Rob Hopkins was asked by the New Scientist to explain why he is optimistic that we can survive peak oil and minimise climate change. From the interview: You're about to launch an Energy Descent … >>