We start our series of First Tuesday events on Tuesday March 2nd with a film night, where we will show several short films with relevance to transition and environmental issues. There’ll be time afterwards for a discussion and the award of the Tooting Palme Verte to the evening’s favourite film. Bring food to share if […]
Read More →Lucy makes the front page as the Wandsworth Green Champion! And below is the relevant part of the article on the Green Guardian pages. Great publicity for Transition Town Tooting! Well done Lucy!
Read More →What a week! Susan Venner (Venner Lucas Architects) and I collecting our Awards at this week’s Wandsworth Green Champions Awards from the Mayor and Konstam’s cook Oliver! Thanks to those that nominated us and many a cheer for our Tooting work to get a Transition initiative off the ground. We always talk about acting as […]
Read More →Coverage in today’s Wandsworth Guardian of our recent Energy Talk with Jeremy Leggett & Rex Cassidy. Good pic – we should sign that photographer up for the Carnival! Brief highlights are now on our video channel
Read More →TTT held a very interesting and well attended talk on Thursday with Solar Century’s Jeremy Leggett and Rex Cassidy the Facilities Director at Springfields Hospital responsible for all St Georges Trust buildings. Some video excerpts will follow on our youtube channel. Jeremy reminded us that how human brains work is key and that we tend […]
Read More →TTT is looking for several different people to assist over the next few months in the build up to Tooting’s first ever Trashcatchers Carnival on July 4th. Could you help out with vital Fundraising or be the key Community Liaison person with all the local groups? Or perhaps you know all about Press & Publicity? […]
Read More →Further to the successful talk held in September with Prof Tim Lang and NEF’s Andrew Simms, we are holding a 2nd talk in association with the Wandsworth Environment Forum this week. What will Tooting look when cheap oil runs out? And how can we make the transition? Come and hear from Energy Specialist and Director […]
Read More →We asked Tooting Transitioners what they’d learnt from getting involved with our local collective response to global challenges. Here’s a random selection of what they said: Malsara: I am touched and amazed by the generosity and kindness of the people I have met through TTT. What a refreshing change from the profit driven madness of […]
Read More →The government of The Maldives held a cabinet meeting under water last month to emphasise how their nation is threatened by rising sea levels and climate change. And an article in the Guardian today claims that the International Energy Agency has been deliberately underplaying the looming oil shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. Hmmm […]
Read More →What is it about Peak Oil that helps to ‘get one’s head’ around the converging challenges of this time in planet history? I like to see it as the ‘first story’: all the others – climate change, economic ‘recession’, arctic ice melts, pollution, obesity, loss of bio-diversity, floods, famines, having to recycle our waste and […]
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