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If You’ve Never Read TransitionCulture.org, Now Is The Time To Start |
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| By Steve Balogh in Green Living, Green Sites, Permaculture | October 5, 2007 | ||
Rob Hopkins has led a relocalization effort in Totnes, UK, and has made great strides over the past year. He is a shining example of what can be done on a local level. His site transitionculture.org chronicles his ideas and efforts. He was interviewed for Global Public Media, in July, and the audio can be found here. Today, he released a transcript of the interview (for those who prefer a visual, rather than a auditory stream of info).
The Q&A, comes early on in the interview – proving that individuals can make a difference in their local village, town, or city.
AH: You started off in Totnes. You just moved into the town and then you started making things happen. Did you actually know anybody before you got there?
RH: I knew a few people, and there were certain key allies who I guess were already in place. Schumacher College, who are sort of an international college of sustainability, were here, and we forged some very useful alliances with them, which enabled us to be able to borrow a lot of the speakers that they had, and so we had access to some quite amazing speakers. But other than that, no, not really. I mean, I knew a couple of people, and we started networking quite quickly really. I mean there were certain people, and we started doing talks, and we started showing films, and people started coming to those, and we began to take their email contacts, and to build up an email list to start contacting everybody. So at the beginning there were only a few people, but now we have like 10 percent of the population of the town on our email mailing list.
Rob has inspired other efforts in other UK towns and cities. He was instrumental in starting a local currency called the Totnes Pound, that many local businesses accept. He also has made the decision no longer to fly to conferences, and gave a presentation via video to the Triple Crisis Teach-In in Washington, DC this past month. See his presentation here.
If you’ve never read Rob’s blog before, this interview gives you a good idea of where he is coming from, and where his idea’s are leading. His RSS feed is highly recommended.
Link: Transition Culture
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