Privilege to Meet Rob Hopkins

My dear friend Paul assisted me in California and I didn't have to drive once! Love that man! I met Rob Hopkins in Oakland at the Grand Lake Theatre as he spoke about Organizing for Resilience. 


Conversation with Rob Hopkins and Gopal Dayaneni


Rob Hopkins is a British permaculture educator and founder of the international Transition Town Movement. We are excited to welcome Rob for his first - and likely only - visit to the US. Rob has a no-flying pledge which he decided to break as our planet crossed the 400ppm threshold of CO2 in the atmosphere earlier this year in order to come to the US to make the case for investing in local action.

Rob launched the first Transition Initiative in Ireland in 2005. Since then, the Transition Movement has taken root in 43 countries, with 142 Transition Towns in the US and more than 1,000 around the world. Rob continues lending his energy, ideas, and voice to the Transition Movement as it grows and deepens around the world, in addition to working with his own community, Transition Totnes, to pioneer innovative Transition strategies and projects like REconomy and Transition Streets. Rob's new book, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, launched in June and has received rave reviews.

Rob was the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists. 

In the words of Bill McKibben:
“In the leaking ship that we’ve made of our planet, the Transition movement is like a flotilla of life rafts. And they’ve come not to pull us off the earth, but to help us patch it and make it right. There’s no one on earth who’s just done more stuff–and inspired more doing – than Rob Hopkins."