Number 2 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’
Here is tweet number two: No.2 in @tttooting‘s 12 days to xmas: re-make, re-use & re-create to reclaim waste in new ways rebuildingcenter.org pic.twitter.com/uNsj5LroEg
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TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’: here is tweet no. 1
TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’ We’re going to tweet every day from now until Christmas Eve on practical, creative, seasonal & interesting sustainability themes. Here is the welcoming tweet:Today we begin @tttooting‘s 12 tweets to Christmas, built on our email newsletter last month ow.ly/FMPV5 Join in! And here is tweet number one:No.1 in @tttooting‘s 12 […]
Read More →Restart Party 2
Tooting’s second Restart Party was held on Dec 3rd at Mushkil Aasaan with more electronic items being fixed by volunteers for free courtesy of the Restart Project. We had quite a few laptops and tablets this time round. Sidd (pictured) had come all the way from Ilford with his laptop screen recycled as an external […]
Read More →Insect Hotel – trash to treasure (of sorts…)
Have you ever thought about how much material gets used once and thrown away? Or is not financially worth re-using? Or how most people won’t be satisfied buying something second hand, it has to be new? Somewhat in tune with Transition Network’s December theme of “Less is More” I thought it would be of interest to […]
Read More →Insect Hotel: Looking back, looking forward – re-using all the way
It’s been 4 1/2 weeks since we started the Insect Hotel build. In the Tuesday sessions with Gatton Primary, we have welcomed 40 students to the garden. We have shown them flint tools found at the site from thousands of years ago, the growing beds created only a few years ago and the Rainwater Catchment […]
Read More →Seize Your Pension Power To Save The Planet
Your pension can change the world! Right now, it’s funding climate change… On December 9th we are running an event with Share Action looking at how the gazillions sloshing around in the UK’s pension funds are invested in fossil fuel companies and other high-carbon industries which are driving the world towards dangerous climate change. This […]
Read More →Insect Hotel Wk3 – The Rising!
Often with our work with Gatton, we’ll augment the sessions with the students with extra hours to maintain momentum as well as keep us on track. These augmenting sessions usually happen during normal garden hours on a Sunday, 11am to 1pm. So come down if you specifically want to contribute to this project. Send a […]
Read More →100 children in the Garden: hunting for minibeasts and for bears in mid-November
In the past fortnight we have hosted two year groups of 50 children each with staff and parents from Gatton School for two special mid-November outdoor learning sessions, Tooting style. Year Four actively searched the garden’s diverse habitats for minibeasts as part of a curriculum day on the natural world. They found worms, woodlice, centipedes, […]
Read More →Tooting’s Air Quality – community meeting Wednesday 26th Nov
We’ll share the results of this local and practical ‘citizen science’ project to measure local air quality, and hear from knowledgeable speakers who are involved with this challenge.All welcome to take part in this urgent discussion, look at the issues in depth, and consider: ‘what’s to be done?’ When: Wednesday 26th Nov, 1930-2100 Where: Tooting United […]
Read More →Restart Party, Wed 3rd December – let’s get stuff fixed!
Do you have an electrical or electronic item that needs fixing and don’t want to have to throw it away? After a fantastically successful evening in September we are delighted to announce that the Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electronics longer, have agreed to run a […]
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