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We’re thrilled to be invited to contribute to the London National Park City Fair on Saturday July 21st 11:00 – 5:00 – all the details here. The purpose of the Fair is to celebrate’s London’s potential to be Greener, Healthier and Wilder.Two dozen stands & an A-Z of short talks will show how that potential […]
Read More →Here at Transition Town Tooting we love a chance to celebrate – and we don’t mind a good birthday cake either! Last month was our annual general meeting and party, the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year, look forward to the future and celebrate the now. We had feedback from some of our […]
Read More →Join us to celebrate Refugee Week 2018 in Tooting! It’s the 20th annual Refugee Week, and in TTT’s 10th anniversary year we’re proud to be showing ‘Even When I Fall’ in partnership with CARAS and St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wandsworth Common. When: Sunday 17th June. Doors open 7:00 for tea and a samosa […]
Read More →The final session discussed how we communicate with others about Climate Change. We were asked to consider examples of bad and good conversations we had experienced. We considered some of the reasons that make it so difficult to engage in conversation: busy-ness, it’s all about the future rather than the here and now, it demands […]
Read More →Our Signs of Welcome series of ten local workshops is continuing now over the next two weeks.Click here to read about the first five events and what we experienced together with our project partner CARAS. We created these participatory workshops to provide a vivid, simple and accessible opportunity to imagine how to welcome people new […]
Read More →General consumption and waste In this session we focused on our consumption. We learned how it is a big proportion of our carbon footprint and how it tends to increase in line with our total household income (the more money we have the more we spend!). There is a relationship between what we buy, why […]
Read More →We had a lively and informed discussion about food. We started by discussing some memorable meals that we’d had and interestingly a lot of people described the context much more than the food itself. We then did an activity in pairs where we discussed the meaning of food, such as what and who influences our […]
Read More →‘Travel and Transport’ was the theme of the evening’s discussion this third week of Carbon Conversations. Stories of favourite and nightmare journeys were shared – from wonderful night time cycling through Hyde Park to the extreme frustration of delays, queues and missed connections while under pressure to meet a deadline elsewhere. We talked about what travel […]
Read More →In the second session of Carbon conversations, we predominantly discussed domestic energy and how we could reduce our carbon footprint from energy usage. The discussion started with how much temperature rise could happen in the future and within what time and would we able to cope with it? People had thoughts from 2° C rise […]
Read More →In our first session we discussed some general issues around climate change such as responsibility for the problem and what a low-carbon future would look like. On the issue of responsibility we thought about individual vs structural change. We agreed that individuals do hold significant power through their consumer choices. However we also recognised that […]
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