Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He has many years’ experience in education, teaching permaculture, and natural building, and set up the first two year-full-time permaculture course in the world, at Kinsale Further Education College in Ireland, as well as coordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission.

He is author of Woodlands for West Cork!, Energy Descent Pathways and most recently The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience, which has been published in a number of other languages.

9 publications

• Et si… on libérait notre imagination pour créer le futur que nous voulons ?

  Rob Hopkins, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, June 2020

• From What is to What If. Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want.

  Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, October 2019

• The Transition starts here, now and together

  Rob Hopkins, Lionel Astruc, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, October 2017

• Ils changent le monde! 1001 initiatives de transition écologique

  Rob Hopkins, Editions du Seuil, Paris, France, October 2014

• Einfach. Jetzt. Machen! Wie wir unsere Zukunft selbst in die Hand nehmen

  Rob Hopkins, oekom verlag München, Deutchland, 2014

• The Power of Just Doing Stuff How local action can change the world

  Rob Hopkins, Green Books, United Kingdom, June 2013

• Le pouvoir d’agir ensemble, ici et maintenant. Entretiens.

  Rob Hopkins, Lionel Astruc, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, November 2012

• The Transition Companion Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times

  Rob Hopkins, Chelsea Green Publishing, USA, October 2011

• Local Food. How to Make it Happen in Your Community.

  Tamzin Pinkerton, Rob Hopkins, Green Books, United Kingdom, 2009

A pedagogical tool

• The essential guide to doing Transition. Getting Transition started in your street, community, town or organisation.

  by the Transition network Team Rob Hopkins, Michael Thomas, 2016

One proposal

• Transition Initiatives Primer.

  becoming a Transition Town, City, District, Village, Community or even Island

  Rob Hopkins, Ben Brangwyn, 2010

  Transition Network

  français - Português

One case study

• Bologna, the City with a ‘Civic Imagination Office’

  Blog Resilience

  Rob Hopkins, March 2019