Our Green Champion
Lucy makes the front page as the Wandsworth Green Champion! And below is the relevant part of the article on the Green Guardian pages. Great publicity for Transition Town Tooting! Well done Lucy!
Read More →Category: Other stuff
A place to gather things that have no category!
Are we getting anywhere?
What a week! Susan Venner (Venner Lucas Architects) and I collecting our Awards at this week’s Wandsworth Green Champions Awards from the Mayor and Konstam’s cook Oliver! Thanks to those that nominated us and many a cheer for our Tooting work to get a Transition initiative off the ground. We always talk about acting as […]
Read More →Easing The Transition
Coverage in today’s Wandsworth Guardian of our recent Energy Talk with Jeremy Leggett & Rex Cassidy. Good pic – we should sign that photographer up for the Carnival! Brief highlights are now on our video channel
Read More →Talking Energy & Recycled Oil
TTT held a very interesting and well attended talk on Thursday with Solar Century’s Jeremy Leggett and Rex Cassidy the Facilities Director at Springfields Hospital responsible for all St Georges Trust buildings. Some video excerpts will follow on our youtube channel. Jeremy reminded us that how human brains work is key and that we tend […]
Read More →Volunteer Roles for Carnival
TTT is looking for several different people to assist over the next few months in the build up to Tooting’s first ever Trashcatchers Carnival on July 4th. Could you help out with vital Fundraising or be the key Community Liaison person with all the local groups? Or perhaps you know all about Press & Publicity? […]
Read More →Energy Specialist Jeremy Leggett in Tooting
Further to the successful talk held in September with Prof Tim Lang and NEF’s Andrew Simms, we are holding a 2nd talk in association with the Wandsworth Environment Forum this week. What will Tooting look when cheap oil runs out? And how can we make the transition? Come and hear from Energy Specialist and Director […]
Read More →Reflections on Involvement with TTT
We asked Tooting Transitioners what they’d learnt from getting involved with our local collective response to global challenges. Here’s a random selection of what they said: Malsara: I am touched and amazed by the generosity and kindness of the people I have met through TTT. What a refreshing change from the profit driven madness of […]
Read More →Sustainable Future?
The government of The Maldives held a cabinet meeting under water last month to emphasise how their nation is threatened by rising sea levels and climate change. And an article in the Guardian today claims that the International Energy Agency has been deliberately underplaying the looming oil shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. Hmmm […]
Read More →All About The Oil
What is it about Peak Oil that helps to ‘get one’s head’ around the converging challenges of this time in planet history? I like to see it as the ‘first story’: all the others – climate change, economic ‘recession’, arctic ice melts, pollution, obesity, loss of bio-diversity, floods, famines, having to recycle our waste and […]
Read More →Trashcatching Workshops
Well done to everyone who was involved in last week’s Trashcatching Workshops at Graveney School. A short film of some of the action can be watched below! There will be more workshops over half term in February as we prepare for the big Trashcatchers’ Carnival in Tooting on July 4th 2010. Any children or adults […]
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