130 people joined us for 2 events during London National Park City Festival Week! Our 2 linked workshops, called Growing Community in the Heart of Wandsworth, invited people to come and get their hands dirty learning how to make vertical planters, potting on, creating leaf pressings and loads more. They also created a lasting echo […]
Read More →Quite amazing in the week where the IPCC tells us we have even less time than we thought to take action to avert the dangers posed by warming of 2°C, that fracking is underway today in Lancashire courtesy of the delightful Cuadrilla Resources. What planet are these people on? Thankfully there are some brave people […]
Read More →Have your say on local air quality and energy efficiency at Future Tooting! All welcome on Saturday 21st April 2:00 – 5:00 pmAt the United Reformed Church, Rookstone Road, Tooting SW17 9NQ We have teamed up with local campaign groups to host an event on air quality and energy efficiency in Tooting, with speeches from […]
Read More →Leo’s Garden, the highly-valued and hidden-away balcony garden at South Thames College in Tooting held a celebratory event this week. STC staff and friends marked two years on from its opening (see our 2015 blog report here) and did some autumn planting. This kind of local oasis is so relevant to a new study published […]
Read More →Want to find out more about Tour de Tooting? Come along to our second Hubs and Spokes café on Thu. 19 May, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at Rechere’s Wellbeing Centre, 163-165 Tooting High Street in anticipation of the Tour de Tooting, Sun. 03 July. What will be doing in this Hubs and Spokes Cafe? The […]
Read More →Join us in planning a wheeled parade and ride through Tooting! Over the last few months, Transition Town Tooting have been experimenting with the idea of a wheeled parade and some bike rides through Tooting – a chance to celebrate the possibilities of safe, open roads for everyone where clean air and community conversations meet. […]
Read More →The LSX data showing pollution In Tooting At the end of November we held a productive meeting about air quality in Tooting, organised in conjunction with Furzedown Low Carbon Zone, London Sustainability Exchange (LSX) and Battersea & Wandsworth TUC. This meeting was organised on the back of the citizen science data collected in Tooting’s main […]
Read More →We’ll share the results of this local and practical ‘citizen science’ project to measure local air quality, and hear from knowledgeable speakers who are involved with this challenge.All welcome to take part in this urgent discussion, look at the issues in depth, and consider: ‘what’s to be done?’ When: Wednesday 26th Nov, 1930-2100 Where: Tooting United […]
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