A place to gather things that have no category!
Between the 13th and 17th September, the Transition Network Conference ran on Tooting’s doorstep at Battersea Arts Centre. The network links together more than a thousand Transition Town initiatives worldwide. Designing a city with the enterprises we want As you would expect it was extremely full – with the different days focusing on different themes […]
Read More →Following the success of the Trashcatchers’ Carnival in 2010, and a strong arts and making presence at the yearly Foodival and in this year’s Treasuring Tooting wellbeing walk, Tooting is gearing up to discover and acknowledge just how important arts and making is to Tooting’s transition steps. Smart stands for Sustainable Making and Arts Tooting. We’re […]
Read More →If good meetings take practice, then in the past week we’ve been rehearsing for a team yellow jersey with six meetings in eight days –sometimes an uphill climb, sometimes a sprint! There was the last workshop of our sixth series of Carbon Conversations; our monthly TTT co-ordination get together; inaugurating the new ‘SMART’ artists’ group; streamlining our web […]
Read More →Ever fancied bypassing conventional media to talk directly to your own community and others all over the world? Here’s your chance to learn how!This practical workshop has been developed by Mark Barto from visionOntv, and Patrick Chalmers, authour of Fraudcast News.Participants will learn to make short video reports for instant uploading to the web. Please […]
Read More →Carbon ConversationsOn Monday evening 25th June, we started our latest series of Carbon Conversations workshops with a talkative and diverse group. We will cover a lot – in particular focusing on what can be achieved at the individual, family and community levels. What are some of the participants’ reasons for joining? Responses included: ‘we’ve just […]
Read More →On the evening of Wednesday 20th June a group in Tooting met to join in with the UK-wide Festival of Transition’s 24 Hours of Possibility. See http://www.festivaloftransition.net/experiments/67Why go to Rio when you can come to Tooting? For half the time we were catching up with the past and present. We had a lot of discussion, clarification and questioning […]
Read More →We’re starting a new series of fun and participative Carbon Conversations workshops on Monday June 25th at The Selkirk, Selkirk Rd, Tooting Broadway, from 630-830 pm, and continuing on the following three Mondays. Please click here for the detailed flyer. We’ll explore values, behaviours and feelings, and we will ‘count the carbon’ in our daily lives, so […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting hold regular planning meetings – all are welcome. Here are the pictorial notes from our last meeting on the 15th May. Notes drawn by Jeni Walker – inspired by Alice Maggs. Click to enlarge.
Read More →which sells nothing but offers much. Photos below and read Lucy’s Shop Diary to find out more. Better still come down and discover for yourself at 68 Upper Tooting Rd, 10am-6pm till Sunday only! This link has full details of all the events.
Read More →Video of the day 3 dozen photos from the Treasuring Tooting walk in slideshow format – enjoy!
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