Here are the notes from the April Core Group Meeting
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Local Hustings for London Assembly elections
On Tuesday evening, around 80 people gathered at Wimbledon’s St. Mark’s Church to ask four of the candidates for the London Assembly what they would do if they got into power on May 3rd. The candidates fielding questions were Leonie Cooper (Labour), Shas Sheehan (Liberal Democrat), Richard Tracey (Conservative and current Assembly Member for Merton […]
Read More →Spending time designing money
Two workshops on 21 and 22 April provided lots of lovely ideas for the design of the Tooting Pound. It’s early days for the community currency but that didn’t stop the heated debates about who should be on the notes – should it be Wolfie (Citizen) Smith or Nurse Edith Cavell on the T£1; Hester […]
Read More →Growing Successfully in the City
The ‘Monthly Do’ on Sunday April 22nd at Wandsworth Borough Council’s Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park saw several of us from Transition Tooting join with gallery staff to offer a drop-in afternoon about on ‘Growing Successfully in the City’. Yes – that broad topic included different prompts for the ways ‘urban growing’ is expressed: […]
Read More →Well Beeing Project
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 →Four events between 21+22 April and 12 May
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 →Lovely Graphic of our planning meeting
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 →Locally-made video on community approaches to our low-carbon future
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 →Snippets from Ecobuild 2012
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 →Making the local low-carbon future happen now!
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 […]
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