<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><b>"The Transition Away from Fossil Fuel Reliance and Towards Resilience"</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Featuring:</b></div><div style="text-align:center">
<b><br></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4">Rob Hopkins</font></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><i>Founder of the “Transition Movement” working to build community resilience in the face of ecological and economic change</i></div>
<div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-style:italic"><br></span></div><div style="font-style:italic;text-align:center"><i>Author of the Transition Handbook and his new book, The Power of Just Doing Stuff</i></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;text-align:center"><i><br></i></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://transition-tufts.eventbrite.com">Register Here</a></div><br>Rob is an upbeat speaker and storyteller who has inspired over 1,200 local organizing initiatives in 43 countries, including 140 in the United States. <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil.html">See his TED talk with over 350,000 views</a>. We are fortunate to be able to catch Rob on his first, and likely only, visit to the U.S.<br>
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<div><br></div><div style="text-align:center">Rob will be followed by a panel including:</div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Mayor Michael J. McGlynn, City of Medford &</b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Mayor Lisa A. Wont, City of Fitchburg</b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center">Sponsored by:</div><div style="text-align:center">Tufts University’s Peace & Justice Studies, Transition US, Post Carbon Institute, Institute for Policy Studies & New Economics Institute for Policy Studies<br>
</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><b>Location:</b> ASEAN Auditorium in the Cabot Intercultural Center, <br>170 Packard Ave, Medford MA</div><div style="text-align:center">For directions: <a href="http://campusmaps.tufts.edu/medford">http://campusmaps.tufts.edu/medford</a></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="text-align:start"><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://transition-tufts.eventbrite.com/">Register Here</a></div></span></div>
<br><b><i>In the words of Bill McKibben:</i></b><br><br>“In the leaking ship that we’ve made of our planet, the Transition movement is like a flotilla of life rafts. And they’ve come not to pull us off the earth, but to help us patch it and make it right. There’s no one on earth who’s just done more stuff–and inspired more doing – than Rob Hopkins.”<br>
<br><div>A British permaculture teacher, Rob launched the first Transition Initiative in Ireland in 2005. Today, there are several hundred transition towns and neighborhoods in the UK and more than 140 in the U.S., each working locally to strengthen community resilience in the face of climate change and changing energy/economy futures. Rob was the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists. <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_hopkins_transition_to_a_world_without_oil.html">Check out his TED Talk, Transitioning to a World Without Oil.</a><br>
<br><i>The Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (<a href="http://jptransition.org">http://jptransition.org</a>), which serves as a catalyst and convener of initiatives that will shape the New Economy, became the 96th “Transition Town” in the U.S. in 2010.</i><div>
<br></div><div>-- <br><div>Sarah Byrnes<br>Economic Justice Organizer<br>Institute for Policy Studies, New England Office<br><a href="tel:617.477.8630%20x307" value="+16174778630" target="_blank">617.477.8630 x307</a><br>
<a href="http://localcircles.org" target="_blank">http://localcircles.org</a>
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