TTT is running its 11th sustainable food festival – the Tooting Foodival – this September! This year’s Foodival poster celebrates the core elements of growing, cooking and eating! If you are a connoisseur of any of these activities we urge you to get involved in this year’s festival either as a grower donating some home […]
Read More →Ten days ago the fabulous OaKomotion! travelling Carnival promenaded all round Furzedown. The whole amazing sunny event was based on the sucess of the Furzedown Oak Community Project. In the Project community artists and host groups adopted sections of the large American Oak felled locally. Then they created sculptures to give the oak a rich and […]
Read More →Here at Transition Town Tooting we love a chance to celebrate – and we don’t mind a good birthday cake either! Last month was our annual general meeting and party, the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year, look forward to the future and celebrate the now. We had feedback from some of our […]
Read More →Join us to celebrate Refugee Week 2018 in Tooting! It’s the 20th annual Refugee Week, and in TTT’s 10th anniversary year we’re proud to be showing ‘Even When I Fall’ in partnership with CARAS and St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wandsworth Common. When: Sunday 17th June. Doors open 7:00 for tea and a samosa […]
Read More →The final session discussed how we communicate with others about Climate Change. We were asked to consider examples of bad and good conversations we had experienced. We considered some of the reasons that make it so difficult to engage in conversation: busy-ness, it’s all about the future rather than the here and now, it demands […]
Read More →Our Signs of Welcome series of ten local workshops is continuing now over the next two weeks.Click here to read about the first five events and what we experienced together with our project partner CARAS. We created these participatory workshops to provide a vivid, simple and accessible opportunity to imagine how to welcome people new […]
Read More →General consumption and waste In this session we focused on our consumption. We learned how it is a big proportion of our carbon footprint and how it tends to increase in line with our total household income (the more money we have the more we spend!). There is a relationship between what we buy, why […]
Read More →We had a lively and informed discussion about food. We started by discussing some memorable meals that we’d had and interestingly a lot of people described the context much more than the food itself. We then did an activity in pairs where we discussed the meaning of food, such as what and who influences our […]
Read More →‘Travel and Transport’ was the theme of the evening’s discussion this third week of Carbon Conversations. Stories of favourite and nightmare journeys were shared – from wonderful night time cycling through Hyde Park to the extreme frustration of delays, queues and missed connections while under pressure to meet a deadline elsewhere. We talked about what travel […]
Read More →In the second session of Carbon conversations, we predominantly discussed domestic energy and how we could reduce our carbon footprint from energy usage. The discussion started with how much temperature rise could happen in the future and within what time and would we able to cope with it? People had thoughts from 2° C rise […]
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