ROB HOPKINS is the originator of the Transition Town concept, which promotes community-driven responses to peak oil that focus on cooperative effort to meet basic needs as sustainably and close to home as possible; in just a few years, his work has inspired an international movement of hundreds of communities. He is co-founder of the Transition Network and author of The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (2008). He is a trustee of the Soil Association (U.K.), the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, and a Fellow of Ashoka International. Hopkins is a Fellow of Post Carbon Institute.