Would you like to join local residents for a programme of facilitated workshops exploring our responses to the climate crisis -personally and collectively? Living with the climate crisis is a programme of workshops which offer a mix of psychologically-based groupwork and experiential learning which support people in managing their feelings, experiences and actions towards this complex issue. Anxiety, […]
Read More →Between 2011 – 2018 Transition Tooting led several rounds of Carbon Conversations – involving over 80 local residents. The facilitated workshops enabled individuals to explore the areas of our lives where we can reduce our own carbon emissions: travel, food, domestic energy, consumption and waste. A quote from a participant: “The beauty of Carbon Conversations is the optimism, […]
Read More →We’re postponing our new series of Carbon Conversations until the New Year.Tonight’s first session is cancelled, as are the following 5 meetings. The series of meetings needs a critical mass of local people to join in so we have rich and diverse discussions – we are nearly there but not quite for the series due […]
Read More →We’re hosting a new free event: Local Stories of Sustainability Success in the afternoon of Saturday 20th October, from 2:00 to 4:00 at the Mushkil Aasaan Hall, 220 Upper Tooting Road SW17 7EW. The event will illustrate vivid can-do stories by local people who have reduced their carbon footprints and increased their wellbeing Martin, Susan, […]
Read More →Carbon Conversations is back! Our new series of six free meetings in November & December in SW16 – organised by TTT’s Ben Cuddon. The facilitated workshops enable individuals to explore the areas of our lives where we can reduce our own carbon emissions: travel, food, domestic energy, consumption and waste. A quote from a past […]
Read More →We’re thrilled with the fun and buzz at the Tooting Foodival last Saturday! Thanks to all who contributed their time, equipment, skills and produce to make it a success (see the I Grew This 2018 blog post). Over 600 people took part on a sunny Tooting afternoon!Much more to share about it soon on this […]
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 →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 […]
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