30 passionate Tooting folk came to The Selkirk (thanks so much Ben and the team!) on Wednesday night to join our 4 fantastic speakers, Kemi Akinola, Robert Biel, Robyn Knight and Sue Sheehan, in wrestling with the big dilemmas of sustainable food systems and what we can do locally. Our title was “Local Food is […]
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 →On Wednesday 18th April, Tooting Green Drinks played host to our first debate! Why run a debate? This was an experiment to engage more people and look beyond our (albeit wonderful!) usual hard working suspects. And it was to explore some of the more divisive areas of sustainability. It worked! 40 people (ish) came along […]
Read More →On Wednesday evening this week at the Selkirk, Tooting Green Drinks presents a thought-provoking debate on whether:“Capitalism is the best way to achieve a truly social, environmental and economically sustainable future”In the UK we all live in a capitalist system, “An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by […]
Read More →TTT & Tooting Green Drinks proudly present: “Capitalism is the best way to achieve a truly social, environmental and economically sustainable future” Find yourself in an echo chamber tailored specifically for you? Does your Facebook feed reinforce your opinions, back you up every step of the way and leave you dumbfounded when life doesn’t play […]
Read More →Lovely Green Drinks in Tooting last night at The Selkirk, thanks for hosting! We got to know the London National Park City initiative better and asked how we would raise London’s green cover from 48% (current) to 51%???? Our answer is…, Parklets! Green up the base of trees, hand over 1 car parking space to […]
Read More →Good to see that there has been some debate and reflection after last week’s Electing The Future event. Low Impact’s Dave Darby in this thoughtful piece reflects on the elephant in the room – the incongruity of constant economic growth on a physically finite planet, an erroneous assumption that he feels the main political parties […]
Read More →A successful Electing the Future event was held tonight at the USSR club. Loads of interesting discussion about Tooting past, present and future with local voices including some of the parliamentary candidates standing in Tooting. Thanks to Dan Watkins, Phil Ling & Esther Obiri-Darko for attending and Fleur Anderson for standing in for an absent Sadiq Khan. […]
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