Local artist team Jeni Walker and Leon Lawes have begun work to create a giant bee piñata that will process with Treasuring Tooting, the Transition Town Tooting wellbeing walk, on the 12th May. At a point on the walk the pinata will be smashed open in the traditional manner, what goodies will come forth is […]
Read More →We are very pleased to be able to share details of 4 events that are coming up between the weekend of 21+22 April and the 12th of May Help shape the Tooting Pound Design workshops: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd April, both 11am-1pm Sprout, 74 Moyser Road, Furzedown, London SW16 6SQ The Tooting Pound is […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting hold regular planning meetings – all are welcome. To get a flavour of the kind of things we discuss see HERE the first graphically recorded meeting notes, from our last meeting on the 20th March. This move towards the pictorial – done by Jeni Walker – was inspired by Alice Maggs’ graphic documentation of Carbon […]
Read More →In the post below on ‘Community Approaches to the Green Deal’, we mention the video that was being made to accompany the project.Now it’s finished and ready to enjoy on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRx6tNFG8U It’s seven minutes long – do have a look, and keep an eye out for the local locations and stars!The partners in […]
Read More →Ecobuild was again a source of wonder this year. I liked the re-use of materials such as the pallet arch, rubber band lampshade and some lovely tiles made from impressions in every day bowls and dishes. And then there was water bottle man publicising the amount of water wasted in the home. It’s always amazing […]
Read More →On Thursday 15th March there were two fascinating local meetings which illustrated some of the interrelated aspects of making the low-carbon future a reality. The first one was held in the afternoon at S Thames College in Wandsworth, and speakers examined ways that the community can anticipate, influence and make the most of initiatives such as […]
Read More →There are lots of different ways to support Climate Week: encouraging… taking action… challenging… celebrating… What’s yours? Looking forward to this week, three Transition Tooting colleagues – Susan, Alice and Charles – facilitated a workshop a fortnight ago with a dozen staff in a UK Government department, to contribute a stimulus for the senior director to write a personal blog during Climate Week. […]
Read More →I step down after four years as TTT’s Co-Chair – an energising and rewarding role. Daunting at times, (what are we doing??? how do we DO this?) and ultimately inspiring on a daily basis to see what incredible opportunities there are to bring about change, using our imaginations and our wits to invent a more […]
Read More →Thanks very much to everyone who attended the 2012 AGM on Tuesday evening, in the Vestry at Streatham Cemetery on Garratt Lane. Following the adoption of our new constitution a year ago, this short annual formal meeting: confirms by vote the people who will hold the key roles in helping us achieve our vision and […]
Read More →24 college students from the USA doing a ‘Sustainability in Europe’ course based in Denmark came to spend half a day in Tooting on Monday 5th March to kick off a week in the UK. Their curriculum explores the role of local communities as agents of change towards greater wellbeing and a more sustainable future. This […]
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