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24 college students from the USA doing a ‘Sustainability in Europe’ course based in Denmark came to spend half a day in Tooting on Monday 5th March to kick off a week in the UK. Their curriculum explores the role of local communities as agents of change towards greater wellbeing and a more sustainable future. This […]
Read More →All welcome to an update meeting on the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone, at the Furzedown Project, 91 Moyser Road, Tooting SW16 6SJ, on March 1st from 7:00-9:00. We will: hear from Brixton Energy http://brixtonenergy.co.uk/, who are launching their exciting share offer right now for the UK’s first inner-city renewable energy project. That’s a scheme we would love to see in […]
Read More →Here is 2-minute selection of Tooting vox pops as selected by Transition HQ as part of the new film’s promotion. Thanks to everyone who agreed to be interviewed, whether featured here or not. DT
Read More →The Trashcatchers Carnival and Brixton e-currency featured in the premiere screening of Transition 2.0 at the Sivayogam Hall in Tooting last night alongside some very interesting and inspring stories of transition inner and outer from around the world. Fuelled by the excellent Pooja samosas and a classic Lucy fruit cake (that’s a food item not […]
Read More →We are delighted to announce that the World Premiere of the film Transition 2.0 will take place in Tooting in a simultaneous broadcast with Totnes and other Transition initiatives around the world on Thursday 2nd February. And look that’s the Upper Tooting Road taking centre stage on the poster, the day the Trashcatchers’ Carnival took […]
Read More →For the first of our free monthly meetings in 2012, we looked at What are the actions you’d love to take this year to help build your own and Tooting’s resilience, sustainability, wellbeing? This took us into the territory of New Year Resolutions – maybe easily made, and maybe hard to act on? We shared some […]
Read More →Tuesday’s Open event is called Just Do It!What are the actions you’d love to take this year to help build your own and Tooting’s resilience, sustainability, wellbeing? What do you really want to do? There isn’t a ‘right answer’ to this question, so it’s exciting & inspiring to hear others’ ideas and visions, share yours, […]
Read More →TTT members took part in two recent London meetings: London Transition Groups Gathering On Dec 1st, 100 participants from over 25 London Transition groups – and beyond – met at City Hall, by Tower Bridge on the Thames. As well as meeting new people and following up links and ideas, we heard quick updates from […]
Read More →On December 13th, City University hosted its second Food Symposium, bringing together over 150 people from community and consumer groups, farmers and food producers, wholesalers and retail chains, unions, universities, the NHS, local authorities, and the government. The overall topic was the direction, roles and challenges facing UK food policy – influenced of course by […]
Read More →It’s a fact: a local economy needs to take account of Peak Oil and Climate Change. We cannot ‘grow’ our economy without recognising we live on a finite planet. Our fiscal ‘crisis’ is tagged to these two reality-checked ‘barriers to growth.’ How exciting to see the new government Mary Portas report on bringing life back onto our […]
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