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From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

Rob Hopkins Founder of the Transition Network comes to Narberth.

Thursday Nov 19th at the Queens Hall, Narberth from 7pm.

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Links Mentioned on the UNLEASHING

transitionarberth.org/queenshall

transitionarberth.org/unleashing

transitionarberth.org/film

To mark Transitionarberth’s Unleashing we are privileged to have Rob Hopkins, author, lecturer and the founder of the world wide Transition Movement as the main speaker for the evening.  This is an evening celebrating The Transition Movement and Narberth’s part in it. Gordon James and Brian John share the stage.

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.

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, 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.  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.

Gordon James, life long environmental campaigner and, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru.

Dr Brian S. John is the author of the historical-fiction series Angel Mountain Saga.
Brian was born in Carmarthen, Wales. He studied at Haverfordwest Grammar School and at Jesus College, Oxford, where he read Geography from 1959 to 1962 and went on to obtain a D Phil for a study of the Ice Age in Wales. He worked as a field scientist in Antarctica and spent eleven years as a Geography Lecturer in Durham University. He has travelled widely in the Arctic, Antarctic and Scandinavia. Since 1977 he has made his living as a writer and publisher.

Brian is also actively involved in environmental and community organizations; in 1980 he founded the West Wales Eco Centre in Newport and is one of the leaders of the community group "GM Free Cymru." He is the author of a number of articles and nearly 70 books, including university texts, walking guides, coffee table glossies, and books of popular science. His Glaciers and Landscape (written with David Sugden), a university textbook, remained in print as a geomorphology classic for almost 30 years. He also writes on topics of local interest related to Wales: tourist guides, books of local jokes, walkers’ handbooks, and titles on local folklore and traditions.

In recent years Brian has done radio and TV work, and was featured in the BBC2W programme called "The Man from Angel Mountain".

The evening is free, however donations are very welcome.

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