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Why take part in the Climate March? With strong arms, one inspired person can achieve a lot! By joining Transition Town Tooting, the Tooting Community Garden, and Furzedown Low Carbon Zone, and Transition Wandsworth together all under one banner – we can share the work and achieve even more. Why take part…? Young people can […]
Read More →Tonight’s Restart Party was very cool. Thank you so much to Ugo and Janet for organising this event for us at Mushkil Aasaan. Naseem I hope your intercom and kettle were fixed! So I took my TV, only two years old, and watched guitarist Ben and 11 year old schoolboy Sonny, take it apart. It […]
Read More →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 “Restart Party” with TTT in Tooting next month. The Restart Project aims to reduce electronic waste by helping people learn fundamental repair and maintenance skills, enabling them […]
Read More →Hello all – we have circulated the August TTT newsletter to everyone who has subscribed to our TTT email circulation list (email us here if you wish to be added to that list).And if you would like to read a copy online: just click here to catch up with all the August (…and beyond) activities and news.Enjoy!
Read More →Earlier this month, Transition Town Tooting collaborated with the local trades unions to initiate an air monitoring exercise around Tooting Broadway, where several devices have been temporarily fixed to record what is in the air we breathe. A similar exercise at Clapham Junction recently showed alarming pollution levels so the results for Tooting will be […]
Read More →On Sunday 6th July, Friends of Streatham Cemetery, in partnership with Groundwork London and Lambeth Council were joined by local residents to celebrate the re-opening of an entrance into Streatham Cemetery that has been closed to the public for 20 years. This makes this phenomenal area of green space much more accessible to the hustle […]
Read More →Jenny has posted her response below to the most recent meeting in our ‘CC’ series. During the series we have been digging into understanding our own ‘carbon footprint’ and what it means to us in real life. The UK average carbon footprint per person per year now is c12 tonnes of C02 emissions. There’s a challenging and […]
Read More →Nice picture of the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone stall at the Furzedown Festival on Saturday. FLCZ Chair Giles Read (who took the photo, thanks Giles) said: “what a brilliant event The Furzedown Festival was. The interest in the FLCZ stall exceeded all expectations, from people interested in investing to those wanting information on solar panels […]
Read More →Our third meeting in the current Carbon Conversations series was all about exploring and reducing our carbon footprint in the things we purchase. That’s a big topic which ranged from ‘why do we buy stuff anyway?’ to re-use and ‘upcycling’.Richard is a participant and has been researching an apect of consumption: re-using building materials, He […]
Read More →We have a new project promoting all things Made In Tooting. It’s the brainchild of low impact living initiative founder Dave Darby who has organised an inaugural meeting on Wednesday June 18th – all welcome. Over to Dave to explain the concept in more detail: The idea is to promote local businesses making things in […]
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