A few of us from Transition Tooting made it up to the New Economics Foundation’s Bigger Picture festival of interdependence on Saturday (although overwhelming numbers did leave others standing in a lengthy queue or giving up all together).  Highlights for me were: hearing Jeremey Leggett and Juliet Davenport giving both the harsh reality and the currently untapped potential […]

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In the summer TTT’s Bruce Mackenzie made an inspiring return to the Isle of Eigg, one of the Scottish Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides. The people of the island of Eigg have already made great strides towards sustainability and retaining local identity for their island, including generating their own power via Eigg Electric. To […]

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Don’t forget that tomorrow, Transition Town Tooting is running an an interactive discussion event at Tara Arts – Studio in Earlsfield entitled “Imagining Tooting in 2030, a positive vision of life beyond oil”. It’s FREE! Come along & bring your imagination! If you missed The End of the Line, the film about overfishing and the […]

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Last Thursday, TTT & Transition Town Wandsworth organised a discussion event with Tim Lang, Professor of Food Security at City University and Andrew Simms, Policy Director of the New Economics Foundation at Mushkil Aasaan. There was then some time to chat, brainstorm ideas and ask questions. A really enlightening evening with a good turnout. This […]

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Rob Hopkins, the creator of the Transition Town concept, made a flying visit for a late afternoon snackette at Mirch Masala last night, the table cunningly adjacent to our Foodival poster, before being ferried to the Brixton Pound launch in Lucy’s van!Also, a whole hour was devoted to Transition Towns and the B£ on LBC […]

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In a surprise first for this “correspondent”, a whole meal was created from the bounteous produce of our postage stamp garden this week (see below). It IS possible! OK we didn’t “grow” the fish but … an ocean is made of many raindrops. And doesn’t that carrot look like a well known Tooting resident? Answers […]

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Here is Rob Hopkins‘ excellent as ever analysis of The Government’s new UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, announced in the House of Commons by Ed Miliband the day before yesterday. Exciting that there is a (6 out of 10) Plan of sorts breaking down the practicalities of carbon emission reduction. But how half baked that, […]

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Here’s a free guide to Urban Fruit Harvesting which looks good. Here are some showings of climate films at the London Bridge Festival next week. And here is a an Earthwatch debate in November called “From Tsunami to Drought” where they are looking for an extra speaker aged 18-30. Meanwhile, Giles still needs your pictures […]

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