A place to gather things that have no category!
I had been meaning to offer solidarity to the St Paul’s Camp for days and decided to spend last Wednesday there with the tenters. I arrived from the Tube fired up that someone is making a visible statement, to cry out against the extreme levels of inequality in our society. It has been too long.From the […]
Read More →What can we do together to support the local economy? What’s the value in developing a Tooting community currency? Many local businesses are in direct competition with national chains, the internet and large suburban shopping centres. When ‘big business’ wins, another local shop closes or a small business goes bankrupt. If you, like us, are […]
Read More →At short notice, Peter Horton of Gaia’s Company is offering an extra night of his current cabaret tour of songs, sketches and curiosity. Transition Town Tooting is delighted to support Gaia the Cabaret at the Wheatsheaf in Tooting Bec next Tues 25th Oct at 8pm. Come along!
Read More →Sunny weather brought 15 local people, including several Transition Tooting friends, onto Tooting Common to join a Wandsworth Arts ‘Big Draw’ event on Saturday 15th Oct: “Explore the hidden ecology of Tooting Common with artist Jacques Nimki through drawing, talking and walking.” We practiced ‘measured drawing’, collected leaves and seeds in paper boxes which we […]
Read More →I thought I’d take a few minutes to write a bit about a recent ecological/environmental conference I attended, which I found completely inspiring, energizing and life affirming. If you’ve not come across Green & Away, it’s Europe’s only tented conference centre, with everything in the open air or under canvas. Set in rolling fields outside Worcester, […]
Read More →Liz has been hosting a series of ‘Carbon Conversations’ meetings with neighbours in her front room: Our latest ‘CC’ is now taking a break for the summer, so I thought I’d take the opportunity for a quick update on how it’s gone so far, since we started meeting once a week. In mid June a […]
Read More →Two of us have just been to the annual Transition Network Conference in Liverpool Each of the 200-plus participants probably had a unique experience of the 3 days. Much of the time was offered in chunks of options… Exciting choices, because most of the parallel sessions looked tempting…but you needed to select just one! What would you do: choose […]
Read More →‘The change in direction represented by the Transition movement is as profound as any intentional change experienced by a civilisation’. I have been at the national Transition Town Conference in Liverpool for three days. An intense experience, characterised by almost constant conversation with 259 other ‘transitioners’ from all over the world and the UK. The […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting is a partner in promoting the “Furzedown Low Carbon Zone”, a new project that will help achieve the goal of an energy efficient, resilient Furzedown. TTT has a stand at the Big Day Out and will co-host an inaugural meeting at the Furzedown Project, 91-93 Moyser Rd, SW16 6SJ on Monday 18th […]
Read More →This has been Recycle Week and we were delighted to welcome Wandsworth Council’s Recycling Team Sophie Chitty, at this week’s TTT co-ordinating meeting. She writes about her visit here:
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