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Transition Town Tooting were pleased to be invited to join Sadiq Khan MP who hosted Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change at a supper in Tooting last week. I attended on behalf of TTT and was invited to join Mr Miliband’s table where I was quizzed by him about the transition […]
Read More →Around 50 members of 15 different London transition networks met on Monday 23rd at Battersea Arts Centre (venue for the upcoming network conference in May) for the first ever London-wide transition event. We were welcomed by one of BAC’s co-Artistic Directors, David Micklem who gave us some insight in to the venue’s history as a […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting tonight celebrated its 1st birthday at Mushkil Aasaan! Lucy & Hilary led a good discussion with a review of what’s been achieved, a creative visualisation of the future, working groups and a birthday cake with its own rocket launcher!
Read More →Tooting really is an inspiring, quirky, humorous, resilient, inventive and diverse place. Just returned from an incredible evening at Jasmin’s Club on Tooting High St, host to this year’s Community Awards. A full house organised by the indominatable Balham and Tooting Community Association recognising the work done by ‘ordinary’ people on the ground. Transition Town […]
Read More →The Age of Stupid – join us at Wimbledon Odeon on 15th March ‘The first succesful dramatisation of Climate Change to hit the big screen’ – The Guardian A new film, The Age of Stupid (http://www.ageofstupid.net/ and attached), looks like its going to be a fantastic vehicle to raise public awareness of the issue of […]
Read More →Thanks to Sara for these photos
Read More →Really Exciting News! The National Transition Town Conference will be held in Wandsworth! May 22nd-24th at our very own Battersea Arts Centre. Check this link to Rob Hopkins’ blog in Transition Culture to find out more. A chance for you to really see with your own eyes how transitioning work is transforming communities all over […]
Read More →I like this idea that everyone could stop using energy for just one hour. On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, WWF will stage their 3rd Earth Hour, when they hope up to a billion people, businesses and iconic buildings around the world will switch off their lights for an hour and send an important […]
Read More →I am afraid that this montage is the best I have been able to cobble together from the Earth Talk Walk on 31st January. Any other photos gratefully received. Anyway … well done to Hilary for organising a really interesting day meandering between Tooting’s different places of worship. What was striking was how similarly the […]
Read More →Far from being a crisis or a terrible blow to the economy as some sections of our media would like us to think, the snow has been great! On Monday, Tooting Bec Common was mobbed with people enjoying the snow, making snowmen and … talking to each other! Yes can you believe it? I talked […]
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