More photos from Foodival now online – thank you Chuck! Keep ’em coming if you have any good ones! Meanwhile congratulations to Tim for the successful first run out of a Tooting currency at Foodival with our prototype pound, already known on the streets of south London as a “ROOT” (rather than a quid). Go […]
Read More →It was a great afternoon at the Tooting Foodival with local fruit and veg turned into delicious Tooting dishes by local restaurants and purchased by the Tooting public using a prototype Tooting currency the Tooting Root, all in our local Tooting Market! Thanks to all who helped out including restaurants Meze, Al Mirage, Lahore Karahi, […]
Read More →The Food Group are gearing up for Saturday’s Foodival, this year taking place at Tooting Market, 21-23 Tooting High St. All donations of fruit and veg to be magically transformed by local restuaurants into special low food mile Tooting dishes are very welcome. There’s a drop off at the Tooting Community Garden on Friday evening […]
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Read More →I thought I’d take a few minutes to write a bit about a recent ecological/environmental conference I attended, which I found completely inspiring, energizing and life affirming. If you’ve not come across Green & Away, it’s Europe’s only tented conference centre, with everything in the open air or under canvas. Set in rolling fields outside Worcester, […]
Read More →Liz has been hosting a series of ‘Carbon Conversations’ meetings with neighbours in her front room: Our latest ‘CC’ is now taking a break for the summer, so I thought I’d take the opportunity for a quick update on how it’s gone so far, since we started meeting once a week. In mid June a […]
Read More →Two of us have just been to the annual Transition Network Conference in Liverpool Each of the 200-plus participants probably had a unique experience of the 3 days. Much of the time was offered in chunks of options… Exciting choices, because most of the parallel sessions looked tempting…but you needed to select just one! What would you do: choose […]
Read More →‘The change in direction represented by the Transition movement is as profound as any intentional change experienced by a civilisation’. I have been at the national Transition Town Conference in Liverpool for three days. An intense experience, characterised by almost constant conversation with 259 other ‘transitioners’ from all over the world and the UK. The […]
Read More →We have had an exciting few weeks at the Tooting Community Garden so here’s a little update on recent activities. On 18th and 19th June we invited volunteers to come to the Big Dig. We certainly have some talented gardeners and knowledgeable people in Tooting. Sharing skills and knowledge was a feature of the weekend. […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting is a partner in promoting the “Furzedown Low Carbon Zone”, a new project that will help achieve the goal of an energy efficient, resilient Furzedown. TTT has a stand at the Big Day Out and will co-host an inaugural meeting at the Furzedown Project, 91-93 Moyser Rd, SW16 6SJ on Monday 18th […]
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