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  • Green Gown Award presentation 27th November

    Sadiq Khan MP presented the ‘Best Newcomer’ Green Gown Award from the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges to Sue Rimmer, Principal of South Thames College, at the Furzedown Project in Moyser Road.

    This local project with the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone involved many partners, including Transition Town Tooting.

    The Award citation described the project as ‘an excellent example of a local sustainability alliance: learning with and learning from other organisations and sectors’.


    Andy Marks, Head Teacher of Eardley School, outlined the new project starting in the school: the first step is an energy efficiency evaluation being carried out this week. 
     
    And we had an excellent celebratory cake!

    Many thanks to all the project’s participants and supporters – we will share more updates soon. For more about the Award, please see the more detailed posting below in this blog.

  • Green Gown Awards 2012: the winner is our shared project in Tooting’s Furzedown Low Carbon Zone

    South Thames College has won the prestigious 2012 Green Gown Award in the ‘Best Newcomer’ category, from a strong field of 5 other finalists.

    Sadiq Khan MP will celebrate the Award with a local presentation to Sue Rimmer, Principal of South Thames College

    The Green Gown Awards recognise exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken in tertiary education across the UK
    This award was won for the project carried out in the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone with the Greener Jobs Alliance, Transition Town Tooting, and other valued local partners.
    That’s fantastic recognition of hard work, and will help enormously with the profile (and funding!) of further projects.









    For all the detail, see the Winner’s brochure: on page 4 there’s the detail about our project –  including a picture of a TTT Carbon Conversations workshop in action in Furzedown. Go to the Awards website at http://www.eauc.org.uk/2012_green_gown_awards

    We made this video in spring 2012 about the project – do have another look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRx6tNFG8U

    Award celebration:
    There’s a celebration on Tuesday November 27th from 6 to 7pm at the Furzedown Project, 91-93 Moyser Road, SW16.
    Sadiq Khan MP will present the Award to Sue Rimmer, Principal of South Thames College
    All welcome for some celebration cake!
    Details in the Events listing here on the TTT blog, and for a .pdf copy of the celebration flyer, click here.

     
    For more information, email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com