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Further to the successful talk held in September with Prof Tim Lang and NEF’s Andrew Simms, we are holding a 2nd talk in association with the Wandsworth Environment Forum this week. What will Tooting look when cheap oil runs out? And how can we make the transition? Come and hear from Energy Specialist and Director […]
Read More →We asked Tooting Transitioners what they’d learnt from getting involved with our local collective response to global challenges. Here’s a random selection of what they said: Malsara: I am touched and amazed by the generosity and kindness of the people I have met through TTT. What a refreshing change from the profit driven madness of […]
Read More →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.
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