A place to gather things that have no category!
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 […]
Read More →An interesting evening learning new craft ideas and chatting was had by all on Tuesday evening. Wreath making from Community Garden unwanted ivy (great idea Maddie) and wrapping paper printed from polystyrene sheets (thanks Gillian) were particular hits alongside Mal’s poms-poms! Is Hilary still knitting that pink thing? What will it be?
Read More →Tuesday sees the return of the TTT Festive Making & Social event which last year saw many of you unleash your creative skills making greeting cards, wallets from juice cartons, paper and even mincemeat! This year, we have a plethora of talented creative types taking part with decorative pom-poms, origami and recycling of unwanted gifts […]
Read More →A few reflections sent by participants after the Vision & Pathways day which took us from Where has TTT come from? via Where are we now? Where are we going? and How are we going to get there? to How will we know when we get there? “I stepped through a leaf circle into a […]
Read More →Several of us from Transition Tooting attended this months’ excellent WEF Open Meeting and WEF Co-Chair Jon Irwin has very kindly written up the details of the meeting for those who were not able to attend. Green Deal – Notes from the Open Meeting 3rd November 2011John Alker, Policy Director of the Green Building Council […]
Read More →We had an inspiring Vision & Pathways all day event at the amazing Streatham Cemetery (in Tooting) today, covering the past, present and future of TTT. Hopefully we’ll have a write up in due course, but meanwhile here is some photographic evidence! This bucolic rural idyll is in Tooting; no seriously it is … These […]
Read More →At the First Tuesday event on 1st November 2011 members of the local community came together to discuss the issues facing the local economy and what could be achieved by developing a community currency. Could a Tooting Pound become a reality? With one of highest levels of independent small businesses in the country, people like […]
Read More →This past week, two TTT supporters have made separate visits to the ‘Occupy London’ camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral. We asked them both to blog on our site to share their responses, and we hope you find their personal comments interesting and thought-provoking: Jesse’s experience:On Saturday I decided to see what all the fuss was about […]
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