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Some of the hands that contributed to this weekend’s Vision & Pathways Day, again held at the fantastic chapel in Streatham Cemetery. Thanks to everyone who contributed, especially Malik Gul of WCEN and Graham Peterson of the Greener Jobs Alliance who both joined us over lunch. Will Tooting begin to look like this imagined plasticine […]
Read More →On Saturday 3rd November TTT helped Tooting Library run a drop-in Day of Stories. Library staff and volunteers read engaging stories, Alison offered a participative ‘live’ story, and Jane & Charles ran 2 hours of making and crafts that also told a story: ‘What would you like to see in Tooting?’ Children and adults took part, and there […]
Read More →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 CollegeThe Green Gown Awards recognise exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken in tertiary education across the UKThis […]
Read More →Tooting Library + Transition Town Tooting present a free Day of Stories. Saturday 3rd November. Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road, SW17 9PD. Phone: 020 8871 7175 Come and celebrate the magic of stories at Tooting Library! Throughout the day staff and volunteers will be sharing some of their favourite stories in the specially-created Story Zone, featuring […]
Read More →Starting on Saturday 20th October, there’s an interactive installation developed by local school children and artists at Sprout Arts, 74 Moyser Rd. Details here. Come along this weekend if you would like to get involved with making and creating, and from Monday 22nd, this story of the Three Little Pigs continues as an exciting exhibition. Coming […]
Read More →Each day in the week of October 1st, the Transition Network website posted informal reports from different London Transition groups. Here is the link for a report from Transition Tooting:https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-blogger/2012-10/transition-town-tooting-five-ways-wellbeingTo view the other London accounts, click on ‘Guest Bloggers’. TTT appears in another Transition blog, in an account of a session we offered during the Transition […]
Read More →The latest TTT email has been sent today – please click here to read it. Or sign up to receive it, by emailing transitiontowntooting@gmail.com PS: Join this bee and visit the Community Garden! 11-1 on Sundays; public meeting Monday 8th October at The Selkirk – details in TTT mail
Read More →Between the 13th and 17th September, the Transition Network Conference ran on Tooting’s doorstep at Battersea Arts Centre. The network links together more than a thousand Transition Town initiatives worldwide. Designing a city with the enterprises we want As you would expect it was extremely full – with the different days focusing on different themes […]
Read More →Following the success of the Trashcatchers’ Carnival in 2010, and a strong arts and making presence at the yearly Foodival and in this year’s Treasuring Tooting wellbeing walk, Tooting is gearing up to discover and acknowledge just how important arts and making is to Tooting’s transition steps. Smart stands for Sustainable Making and Arts Tooting. We’re […]
Read More →If good meetings take practice, then in the past week we’ve been rehearsing for a team yellow jersey with six meetings in eight days –sometimes an uphill climb, sometimes a sprint! There was the last workshop of our sixth series of Carbon Conversations; our monthly TTT co-ordination get together; inaugurating the new ‘SMART’ artists’ group; streamlining our web […]
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