Rob Hopkins

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Rob Hopkins in the movie Voices of Transition .

Robert "Rob" Hopkins (* 1968 in London ) is a British lecturer and environmental activist who was best known as the founder of the Transition Towns movement.

Hopkins is the author of basic works on Transition Towns and researches at the Post Carbon Institute.

Life

Hopkins was born in London in 1968. He earned a master's degree in social research and a PhD from the University of Plymouth .

As a lecturer in Ireland , Hopkins established the first full-time two-year course in permaculture at Kinsale College of Further Education. In 2004 he learned about the peak oil thesis. Together with his students, he then developed a program for the city of Kinsale to reduce energy consumption and dependence on industrial products and to increase the resilience of the community. In 2005, Hopkins presented the program to Kinsale City Council. This accepted the program, and Kinsale became the world's first Transition Town ("city in transition").

Soon after, Hopkins moved to his hometown of Totnes, Devon, England, where he founded the New Lion Brewery. From 2006 onwards, at Hopkins' suggestion, Totnes followed the example of Kinsale. From Totnes, the Transition Towns movement became an international movement that now includes several hundred cities and towns in different parts of the world.

Hopkins published the Transition Handbook in 2008 and The Transition Companion in 2011 . The manual has been translated into several languages ​​and received a lot of attention, especially from the English-speaking environmental scene, but also from British MPs. The British newspaper The Independent voted Hopkins among the 100 most important environmentalists in the country. Hopkins is a Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute in Santa Rosa, California .

In Totnes today, Hopkins teaches and blogs about transition . His blog Transition Culture was named the UK's fourth best environmental blog in 2007. Hopkins is an important protagonist in the documentary Voices of Transition by Nils Aguilar from 2011, and the documentaries of the transition network 'In Transition 1.0' from 2007 and 'In Transition 2.0' from 2012.

Awards

Publications

  • Energiewende: The Handbook. Instructions for sustainable lifestyles. Two thousand and one, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86150-882-3 .
  • The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. Green Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-900322-18-8 .
  • The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. Green Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-900322-97-3 .
  • The Power of Just Doing Stuff: How Local Action Can Change the World. Green Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-85784-117-9 .
    • German edition: Simply. Now. Do !: How we take our future into our own hands. oekom Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86581-458-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Roark: Rob Hopkins. , Cant 'Learn Less, February 15, 2011, accessed March 18, 2012.
  2. ^ A b c Rob Hopkins: About this site and me. Transition Culture, September 13, 2011, accessed March 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ https://www.newlionbrewery.co.uk/about/
  4. ^ Lucy Siegle: Totnes: Britain's town of the future. In: The Guardian. February 6, 2011, accessed March 18, 2012.
  5. ^ SS Staff: Kinsale Council Supports Transition Town Venture. In: The Southern Star. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  6. ^ The Transition Handbook. Green Books, accessed March 18, 2012.
  7. ↑ Jim Jepps: Top Twenty Green Blogs. In: The Daily Maybe. October 16, 2007, accessed March 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ In Transition 1.0 ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transitionnetwork.org
  9. ↑ In Transition 2.0
  10. ^ The Schumacher Society: Rob Hopkins. ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. schumacher.org.uk, May 10, 2009, accessed March 18, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schumacher.org.uk
  11. ^ The Observer ethical awards 2009: Rob Hopkins. In: The Guardian. June 4, 2009, Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  12. ↑ Neasa MacErlean: A green trail others must now follow. In: The Guardian. December 2, 2009, accessed March 18, 2012.
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SURNAME Hopkins, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopkins, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lecturer and environmental activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH London