A place to gather things that have no category!
Has anyone noticed what a remarkable autumn we have experienced in London this year? It compensates for the slightly disappointing summer tenfold; we have had wonderful glowing mornings filled with scents, colour and sounds. Yes, there have been more than a couple of rainy days. But they have rarely lasted more than a day, and […]
Read More →The climate safety report will be officially launched on Thurs 27th Nov’08, with debate held at 7pm at Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ. Event is free, open to general public. Speakers include Caroline Lucas, Tim Helweg-Larsen, Jeremy Leggett and others. Report available to download free from website, on or shortly after launch […]
Read More →Our heating doesn’t work. Feels like the 1950s. Great for saving on energy bills, and for bowls of warm porridge in the morning, but look forward to a smidgeon more heat. Off on Thursday to the Transition City Conference in Nottingham which is being held specially for communities working to set up Transition Initiatives in […]
Read More →We are well and truly into autumn, my lilac tree has shed most of its leaves and I can now see my neighbours garden again; winter feels close at hand. What’s news? A good friend of TTT, Polly Higgins, recently made a very inspiring speech to the United Nations (UK and Northern Ireland) Climate Change […]
Read More →‘Another world’ – maybe we don’t need such a quiet day to hear her breathing now. Maybe now she can be heard quite clearly – even above the celebratory din of the wheels of change clunking into action? With Barack Obama bouncing onto stage this week as President elect of the US, suddenly all manner […]
Read More →In the last few days, clocks turned back an hour. Darker days on their way. Will have to wait ’til St Lucy’s day in December for the turning of the solar year, the winter equinox and a little more light. Have spent the weekend gathering jumbo crop of apples from my father’s garden. They are […]
Read More →This Tooting resident seems to be surviving the credit crunch without too much bother. What can you see from your Tooting window?
Read More →History may well regard our lives as being lived in the “Fossil Fuel Age”, filed away for posterity or museum visits just like the Bronze or Iron Ages. Rob Hopkins suggests in his Transition Handbook it might be called “The Petroleum Interval”, a relatively short “blip” in history when large quantities of oil were extracted […]
Read More →Here it is from the air!And here’s a map:Includes:Tooting, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway, Transition Town Tooting, Tooting, Tooting Bec Common, Tooting Graveney Common, Tooting Common, Tooting Market, Upper Tooting Road, Tooting High St, St Georges Hospital Tooting, Springfield Hospital Tooting,Tooting Bec Athletics Track, Tooting Bec Lido and many more Tooting things!
Read More →What role is this website designed for; Social media is where people engage with TTT and our individual projects. The web site is the hub, stepping off point to projects and space for the herstory of TTT and place to give the depth to projects and thinking that social lack. We are displaying the Google […]
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