Hopkins, Rob

Hopkins, Rob

Rob Hopkins

Transition Towns: A Response

1 December 2008Feature Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is a permaculture teacher. He catalysed the Transition Town movement when he set his students a project to design an energy descent plan: a timetabled strategy for weaning a town off fossil fuels. We must all engage with the debate and action on how we respond to peak oil and climate change.

It has been intriguing in recent weeks to follow the various, and largely more coherent, debates and discussions that have emerged in the wake of the Climate Camp, and also as the discussions about Transition that the Trapese Collective’s “Rocky Road” document stimulated have rumbled on. A recent piece from Peace News by Kelvin Mason entitled “When Climate Camp Comes Home”, drew on his reflections as an activist who attended previous Climate Camps and also as someone with an involvement in…