Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. His achievements include setting up a permaculture course at Kinsale Further Education College, and coordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission. He is author of The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion, among other publications.
Rob is the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He previously served as a Soil Association Trustee, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK's top 100 environmentalists. Rob is the winner of the 2009 Observer Ethical Award in the Grassroots Campaigner category, and was voted the Energy Saving Trust / Guardian's 'Green Community Hero'. He has completed a PhD on Transition and Resilience at Plymouth University.
