Number 5 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’
Here is tweet number five:No. 5 in @tttooting‘s 12 days to xmas: Broken Xmas present? Save it from landfill – head to a @RestartProject Party and learn how to fix it!
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Ethical Investment
At last week’s Pension Power event, we had a very interesting discussion about how ordinary citizens can start to tackle the behemoth of the financial system, by making choices that avoid destructive climate consequences. Share Action‘s Sophia McNab presented some interesting data and ideas. Sophia says: “To kick-off your pension fund activism, you can email […]
Read More →Number 4 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’
Here is tweet number four:No.4 in @tttooting‘s 12 day to xmas: Make decorations from recycled or found materials like these pretty snowflakes goo.gl/XHTJYc And…a tweet number four bonus for followers on the blog: Make your house look festive this Christmas with unique and simple homemade creations from recycled materials or natural materials. Get out in […]
Read More →Number 3 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’
Here is tweet number three: No.3 in @tttooting‘s 12 days to xmas: Don’t buy ‘stuff’, choose an activity (theatre, ice-skating). Share experiences, create fab memories.
Read More →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
Read More →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 […]
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