Two singer songwriters, two bands, a ukulele combo plus some alternative making & carnival will light up this weekend’s Tooting Foodival at the Samaj Hall. But can you guess who the performers are? Clues below: Head over to the Foodival blog for the full details of this great line up. We look forward to seeing […]
Read More →In today’s news we learn that 90% of seabirds have eaten plastic and are likely to retain some in their gut. It’s pretty horrendous that so much waste plastic ends up polluting our oceans and we will be highlighting waste at this year’s Tooting Foodival. An Albatross takes a shine to a plastic bottle It […]
Read More →This post is a round-up of eight imaginative projects and developments that are happening now, in Tooting and beyond. It’s a selection of what we’ve spotted in the past month. My title comes from Paul Allen of Zero Carbon Britain at the Centre for Alternative Technology, one of the contributors to Playing for Time (see below). […]
Read More →‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’. This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of an exhibition now showing at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.A toilet brush is the unlikely centre-piece of the exhibition. Its description reads ‘This is a well designed toilet brush from Addis bought in […]
Read More →When you were at school, was your classroom outside in the sun? We’re building a plastic bottle greenhouse at the Tooting Community Garden, along with Year Six from Gatton School. That means the children are preparing bottles that would otherwise be added to local waste or recycling. They are measuring the site and problem solving for […]
Read More →Tooting’s second Restart Party was held on Dec 3rd at Mushkil Aasaan with more electronic items being fixed by volunteers for free courtesy of the Restart Project. We had quite a few laptops and tablets this time round. Sidd (pictured) had come all the way from Ilford with his laptop screen recycled as an external […]
Read More →TTT Co-chair, Belinda Sosinowicz blogs her first experiences of the new Foodcycle venture starting this month in Tooting. According to Foodcycle (2013) an estimated 400,000 tonnes of useable surplus food can be saved from UK supermarkets each year [1], or in other words, 400,000 tonnes of food is wasted by supermarkets that could otherwise be […]
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