TRANSITION TOWN
STARTED IN
KINSALE IRELAND
















http://www.transitionnetwork.org/

A Transition Town in Ireland      http://theholliesonline.com   

“Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition
Network. He has many years experience in education, teaching permaculture and natural
building, and set up the first 2 year full-time permaculture course in the world, at Kinsale
Further Education College in Ireland as well as co-ordinating the first eco-village
development in Ireland to be granted planning permission.
observe ethical awards 2009 logo new He is author of ‘Woodlands for West Cork!’,
‘Energy Descent Pathways’ and most recently ‘The Transition Handbook: from oil
dependence to local resilience’, which has been published in a number of other
languages, and which was voted the 5th most popular book taken on holiday by MPs
during the summer of 2008.  He publishes www.transitionculture.org, recently voted ‘the
4th best green blog in the UK’(!). He is the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, an
Ashoka Fellow, is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, served 3 years as a Trustee of
the Soil Association, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK’s top 100
environmentalists. He is the winner of the 2009 Observer Ethical Award for the
Grassroots Campaigner category, and in December 2009 was voted the Energy Saving
Trust/Guardian’s ‘Green Community Hero’.  He lectures and writes widely on peak oil
and Transition, and is researching a PhD on Transition and resilience at Plymouth
University. He lives in Devon and is a keen gardener.

Ethics & Principles of Permaculture

- Design Methods

- The science of Climate, Soil, Water, Trees

- Establishing kithen gardens

- Establishing orchards

- Animal integration into garden systems.

- Energy Efficient House Design

- Earthworks

- Shelterbelt design

- Aquaculture

- Social Structures

- Eco-Village Design  & Transition Towns.