Rob Hopkins is the originator of the Transition concept, having set up the UK's first Transition initiative, Transition Town Totnes. He is the author of 'The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience' and he publishes www.transitionculture.org. He also works for Transition Network, the organisation set up to support the international spread of the Transition movement. He lives in Totnes in Devon with his family, is a keen gardener and planter of trees. He was a teacher of permaculture for many years, setting up the world's first 2 year fulltime permaculture course, in Kinsale, Ireland. He is the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, and is researching a PhD at Plymouth University.
*The lecture will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Estonian.