A place to gather things that have no category!
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 […]
Read More →A few excerpts from June’s Trashcatching Procession at the BATCA Funday
Read More →Here is Rob Hopkins‘ excellent as ever analysis of The Government’s new UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, announced in the House of Commons by Ed Miliband the day before yesterday. Exciting that there is a (6 out of 10) Plan of sorts breaking down the practicalities of carbon emission reduction. But how half baked that, […]
Read More →Here’s a free guide to Urban Fruit Harvesting which looks good. Here are some showings of climate films at the London Bridge Festival next week. And here is a an Earthwatch debate in November called “From Tsunami to Drought” where they are looking for an extra speaker aged 18-30. Meanwhile, Giles still needs your pictures […]
Read More →A Tooting team travelled up to town last night to hear the final results for the TippingPoint Commission on the roof terraces of the National Theatre on The South Bank. Out of 178 applications nationally the Trashcatchers’ Carnival in Tooting was one of 4 awards presented by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate […]
Read More →Here are a few more photos of the Trashcatching and making at last weekend’s BATCA funday. Thanks to local photographer Neila (neila@hotmail.co.uk) for these.
Read More →This afternoon at the BATCA Midummer Funday, TTT helped Project Phakama, Emergency Exit Arts and a small army of Tooting kids turn TRASH into great CARNIVAL COSTUMES for a’Trashcatchers’ Carnival procession! There are grand plans for 2010 but in the meantime here is a selection of photos from today. We should be able to post […]
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