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The government of The Maldives held a cabinet meeting under water last month to emphasise how their nation is threatened by rising sea levels and climate change. And an article in the Guardian today claims that the International Energy Agency has been deliberately underplaying the looming oil shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. Hmmm […]
Read More →What is it about Peak Oil that helps to ‘get one’s head’ around the converging challenges of this time in planet history? I like to see it as the ‘first story’: all the others – climate change, economic ‘recession’, arctic ice melts, pollution, obesity, loss of bio-diversity, floods, famines, having to recycle our waste and […]
Read More →Well done to everyone who was involved in last week’s Trashcatching Workshops at Graveney School. A short film of some of the action can be watched below! There will be more workshops over half term in February as we prepare for the big Trashcatchers’ Carnival in Tooting on July 4th 2010. Any children or adults […]
Read More →A few of us from Transition Tooting made it up to the New Economics Foundation’s Bigger Picture festival of interdependence on Saturday (although overwhelming numbers did leave others standing in a lengthy queue or giving up all together). Highlights for me were: hearing Jeremey Leggett and Juliet Davenport giving both the harsh reality and the currently untapped potential […]
Read More →In the summer TTT’s Bruce Mackenzie made an inspiring return to the Isle of Eigg, one of the Scottish Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides. The people of the island of Eigg have already made great strides towards sustainability and retaining local identity for their island, including generating their own power via Eigg Electric. To […]
Read More →Don’t forget that tomorrow, Transition Town Tooting is running an an interactive discussion event at Tara Arts – Studio in Earlsfield entitled “Imagining Tooting in 2030, a positive vision of life beyond oil”. It’s FREE! Come along & bring your imagination! If you missed The End of the Line, the film about overfishing and the […]
Read More →Last Thursday, TTT & Transition Town Wandsworth organised a discussion event with Tim Lang, Professor of Food Security at City University and Andrew Simms, Policy Director of the New Economics Foundation at Mushkil Aasaan. There was then some time to chat, brainstorm ideas and ask questions. A really enlightening evening with a good turnout. This […]
Read More →Kate Birch’s article for Families South West magazine looks at Transition Towns including TTT and TTBrixton. Click the image below to read in full.
Read More →Rob Hopkins, the creator of the Transition Town concept, made a flying visit for a late afternoon snackette at Mirch Masala last night, the table cunningly adjacent to our Foodival poster, before being ferried to the Brixton Pound launch in Lucy’s van!Also, a whole hour was devoted to Transition Towns and the B£ on LBC […]
Read More →In a surprise first for this “correspondent”, a whole meal was created from the bounteous produce of our postage stamp garden this week (see below). It IS possible! OK we didn’t “grow” the fish but … an ocean is made of many raindrops. And doesn’t that carrot look like a well known Tooting resident? Answers […]
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