tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:44:36 +0000Community GardenFoodivalGrowingSustainabilityParticipationCarbon ConversationsCreativeCommunityCommunity participationCARASTootingRestartClimateRe-useRefugees & AsylumGardeningGatton SchoolRecyclingYoung PeopleOutdoorsFoodMakingWell-beingEventsFunFurzedown Low Carbon ZoneTooting LibraryTop Tooting CookWasteFilmsCarbonCooksEnergyNatureVolunteeringAGMCelebrationFixingMendingWellbeingGardens of RefugeFoodival 2018TrashcatchersTweets to ChristmasArtsFamilyGardening SkillsHealthWandsworthBiodiversityCyclingGrowersGrowing TootingLow-carbon livingPressSMArTBATCABalhamCarbon CollaborationsCraftsOutdoor LearningPollinator Paths WandsworthRepairSewstartStoryTour de TootingVideoAir QualityDebateFoodival 2016LocalMeet & MAkeMeetingsSeedsAwardsChildrenConferenceElectronicsFirst TuesdayFurzedownRooting in TootingSt George'sWandsworth CouncilWelcoming Signs PartnershipCommunity GroupsFanshenFoodival. 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ArtsWheatsheafWildlife Gardening ForumWillowanimalsbuildbackbettergreenhousegreenhouse gaslockdownnefsnowstreetscapewhat's on?£1 a PlateMaking change in how we live, where we live, in light of climate change.http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)Blogger653125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-6718932680826413109Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:32:00 +00002023-04-16T16:32:34.390+01:00ClimateEmergencyWandsworth CouncilTTT's Lucy Neal spoke to the Wandsworth Environment and Sustainability Strategy meeting in January re the Climate Emergency and how the community can be involved in making the urgent changes needed in the Borough. The text is as follows: Hello. I’m Lucy Neal. I was awarded the Council’s S. West London Green Champion Award in 2009. This is Hilary Jennings: we co-chaired Transition Town Tooting http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/02/lucys-deputation-to-council-re-climate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-7429427780631202102Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:55:00 +00002023-01-26T18:55:33.248+00:00Here 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, as Rob says, no mention of Peak Oil - rather like 'the drunken ex-partner who http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2009/07/uk-low-carbon-transition-plan-announced.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-8853646648475550857Tue, 31 Aug 2021 21:02:00 +00002021-08-31T22:02:07.471+01:00We have developed a new website for Transition Town Tooting at https://www.transitiontooting.org/ and all new posts and information will appear there.This blog contains the whole TTT archive from 2008 to 2021. A magnificent 656 posts!Other projects such as Tooting Foodival and Tooting Community Garden continue in their different incarnations on blogger, instagram, facebook etc and all the links http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2021/08/ttt-has-new-website.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-5096316722609269086Sun, 28 Feb 2021 11:12:00 +00002021-03-03T22:28:58.788+00:00GardeningGrowingPollinatorOn the 1st March 2021 we are launching our brand new competition, Pollinator Paradise, to encourage the planting of pollinator-friendly flowers in and around Tooting.This could be your front garden, a balcony, window sill, hanging basket or even around the base of the street tree outside your home.You can enter any place or planter that can be seen safely from the street and which you have http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2021/02/pollinator-paradise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-36465867437933348Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:19:00 +00002021-03-03T22:20:32.439+00:00RepairShareWe are launching a new initiative - Share &amp; Repair - bringing together repairers, fixers and makers in the local community, celebrating and sharing their skills and successes and supporting fixing, mending and making in Tooting and beyond.&nbsp; We plan to: Celebrate local fixing and mending however and wherever it is happening!Promote local repair, fixing and mending businesses.Support http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2021/02/tooting-share-repair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-1103723144868189577Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:50:00 +00002020-12-22T09:18:48.491+00:00In the 6 weeks following Hallowe'en we've facilitated 4 Zoom participative workshops. We've been cooking-along, creating and crafting, writing and sharing poems, all in real time. We've been building skills, discussing and responding between friends, strangers and generations.'Distant Socializing, not Social Distancing': we've been thinking about how this phrase sums up the experience of these http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/12/distant-socializing-not-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-4944726122932500939Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:18:00 +00002020-12-08T19:13:52.043+00:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]-->ReSparkle! 2020 is a fun crafts-making online workshop where you are guided to work at home using household materials to create beautiful things. It's on http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/11/resparkle-2020-our-online-seasonal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-1718381966778700961Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:26:00 +00002020-10-27T12:51:08.586+00:00Join our fun free participative online Halloween workshop for all ages on Saturday 31st October from 4pm-6pm.Coming to you from Tooting Community Garden, we'll be creating crafts, writing poetry and cooking on the fire!Please register on Eventbrite via this link https://tinyurl.com/yyfpfdt6 and we'll send you the Zoom access code on Sat 31st. You're invited to join us on Zoom for a lovely http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/10/creative-fun-online-from-tooting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-9209266962904991495Thu, 25 Jun 2020 08:02:00 +00002020-06-25T14:12:14.399+01:00"Invisible threads are our strongest ties"&nbsp;On Saturday July 4th, 2020, Transition Town Tooting (TTT) invite you to join a safely distanced but socially connected celebration of Tooting community resilience, kindness and inventiveness: on and offline over the length of one summer's dayThe occasion gives time and space to mark our community's survival, solidarity and connections in difficult http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/06/sankofas-returnsaturday-july-4th-2020.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-6966277385471868282Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:59:00 +00002023-04-16T16:29:42.595+01:00BusinessYou may have seen in the Lockdown Love series of blogposts that we have been running Tooting Virtual Green Drinks every 2 weeks since lockdown due to Coronavirus, all welcome, join the Facebook Group here. Well, one of those Green drinks was a lively discussion about the role of big business in a sustainable future. Our Tooting professional in the field, Jacqui Machin, facilitated an inquisitive,http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/06/big-business-and-sustainable-future.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-5080595348907523616Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:40:00 +00002020-06-02T13:40:23.777+01:00Lockdown has been in place here in the UK since the middle of March and had a huge affect on our activities. We had to improvise quick, like everyone, and adapt to a rapidly changing context of how we live, where we live.&nbsp; Each of us in Transition Town Tooting followed our instincts and interests and together we&nbsp;developed diverse, outward facing projects to help our community, both http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/06/lockdown-love-episode-2-building.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-5607802559187834909Sat, 30 May 2020 11:25:00 +00002023-04-16T16:31:08.767+01:00buildbackbetterCommunityCommunity GardenCommunity participationEnjoying & growing local foodFoodFoodivalFoodival. GrowersGardeninglockdownVegetanuaryvegetarian Lockdown has been in place here in the UK since the middle of March and had a huge affect on our activities. We had to improvise quick, like everyone, and adapt to a rapidly changing context of how we live, where we live.&nbsp; Over the early weeks, our growing core group found our niches and put what energy we each had into developing outward facing projects to help our community, both near http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/05/lockdown-love-episode-1-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-3240777908419100660Sat, 16 May 2020 10:54:00 +00002020-05-16T12:36:27.148+01:00Community GardenGrowingPropagatingSeedsTooting Community Garden&nbsp; Have a read of our plans for the 6 rotational beds this May/June. Join in and have a go at propagating some basil, or making some homemade fertiliser for your own plants or to bring to the garden when we re-open.&nbsp; PLANT OF THE MONTH: The Roveja Bean&nbsp; A very ancient variety of peas originating in the Middle east, today cultivated in only in a few http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/05/tooting-community-garden-6-rotational.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-6705050446055376126Sun, 03 May 2020 20:30:00 +00002020-05-03T21:30:19.578+01:00GrowingPlantingSharing SeedsSharing Seeds is a new project for TTT, funded by the Wandsworth Grant Fund, launched in March and operating, guerrilla style during the lockdown. We aim to smarten up our streetscape by focussing on the fantastic trees of Tooting, using creative activities and planting around tree bases.&nbsp; Now, more than ever, outdoor time is scarce, and with community gardens like ours forced to close http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/05/sharing-seeds-2020.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-704485104703120562Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:30:00 +00002020-04-24T16:30:49.035+01:00 We may be on lockdown but we’re still connecting with green space and growing – here’s a quick round up of a recent Green Drinks discussion, activity at our community garden and a new seed swap project!&nbsp; Green drinks on green spaces On 15th April, our new online Green Drinks focused on the subject of access to green space.&nbsp; In the midst of lockdown our relationship with and access tohttp://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/04/tooting-green-space-and-growing-round-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-6020774844423287023Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:51:00 +00002020-03-10T18:26:07.472+00:00Community GardenGrowingSeedsSwap Tooting Community Garden's&nbsp; 🔁Seed and Plant Swap 2020🔁 Sunday 1 March 2020 Supporting Tooting's Diverse Seeds Take a look at the photos to see what we did on the day We created a growing structure and it has a wind sock! We folded newspaper to make compostable pots We used our homemade potting compost! People selected an edible seed to grow from the Seed Swap table We http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/03/tooting-community-gardens-seed-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-4740371868014548622Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:11:00 +00002020-02-18T10:11:25.637+00:00 We’re thrilled to announce two new free public screenings of the fantastic movie ‘Tomorrow’ – hosted by local schools with introductions from Transition Town Tooting. Tomorrow (Demain) is an inspiring journey exploring ways in which activists, organisers and everyday citizens are trying to make the world a better, greener, more sustainable place.&nbsp;&nbsp; Already viewed by over 1.5 http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/02/two-new-february-films-for-action.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-3799848137411000696Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +00002020-01-07T09:00:08.456+00:00Community GardenFoodivalGrowingPlantsSeedsSwapHeads up &amp; a date for the diary, for an early spring celebration in the Tooting Community Garden. On March 1st, we will be running a Seed and Plant Swap. Bring any spare plants or seeds you would like to swap or donate to others. It is fine to turn up with absolutely nothing and see what interesting plants or seeds you can pick up!&nbsp; It's also a great opportunity to think about http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/01/seed-and-plant-swap-at-tcg.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-4972266969455837488Sun, 05 Jan 2020 19:09:00 +00002020-03-13T16:09:55.545+00:00FixingRepairRestart We’ve been running fixing and mending workshops in Tooting for nearly four years now with the help of the Restart Project and their team of volunteer fixers.&nbsp; Our amazing volunteers have fixed everyday items like irons, hairdryers, kettles and toasters and made repairs to trousers, dresses, rucksacks and bags. We’ve even tackled more unusual challenges like industrial food mixers, http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/01/fixing-and-mending-is-on-up.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-677425147775039975Wed, 01 Jan 2020 17:22:00 +00002020-01-05T18:47:29.309+00:00VegetanuaryWell-beingHappy New Year! Happy New Decade! This is the decade for climate action. The year ahead is gearing up for it with greater collaboration and connection between organisations working towards a regenerative future. And it all starts NOW! This Saturday, 4th January, TTT will be hosting 2 talks at "Come Together" - a well being day for the community at Tooting Methodist Church on the corner of http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2020/01/happy-new-year-how-to-start-year-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-7160932585107020988Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:11:00 +00002020-01-05T18:43:57.674+00:00CelebrationTooting Green DrinksWe, at Transition Town Tooting, want to extend a genuine invitation to an end of year celebration on Wednesday 18th December at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting, from 7.30pm. Don't know about you, but recognising the projects and partnerships we've had over the last 12 months and celebrating the work we do together to make our area more resilient, more community minded and more sustainable is http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2019/12/end-of-year-celebration.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-1090686568157951580Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:02:00 +00002023-04-16T16:21:44.102+01:00ClimateElection 2019HustingsLow-carbon livingPollutionWe are calling for Climate Emergency Hustings for Tooting on Tuesday 10 December in a joint effort between TTT &amp; Extinction Rebellion Wandsworth, supported by our colleagues at the Wandsworth Cycling Campaign, and Wandsworth Living Streets. The date is not yet agreed with all candidates but we hope to host it at Mushkil Aasaan, just 2 days before the polls. On 1 May the UK Parliament http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2019/11/call-for-climate-emergency-hustings-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-4171508759692081319Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:40:00 +00002019-11-20T17:06:15.379+00:00ClimateElection 2019Hustings For those of us in North Tooting (aka Battersea) there are Climate Emergency Hustings tomorrow hosted by journalist Michael Crick. It would be great to do something similar in Tooting constituency. http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2019/11/climate-emergency-hustings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-2510436361150329671Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:27:00 +00002019-11-16T13:37:39.758+00:00ClimateEventsFilms This afternoon's film showing of Tomorrow (Demain) provides a comprehensive look at ways in which activists, organisers and everyday citizens are trying to make the world a better, greener, more sustainable place. All welcome for 2.30 pm at All Saints Church Tooting, Brudenell Rd SW17 8DQ. http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2019/11/film-showing-of-tomorrow-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4613585546559925368.post-3494796178631629212Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:26:00 +00002019-12-02T16:42:35.830+00:00FixingMendingRestartSewstart Our regular fixing and mending workshop - Restart/Sewstart - has been getting more and more popular lately. Whether it’s broken electrical or electronic items that people don’t want to throw away - a favourite bit of clothing or a bags that needs altering or mending - or a sewing machine that someone isn't sure how to use - more and more people are keen to fix things rather than throw them awayhttp://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/2019/10/calling-out-for-local-fixers-and-menders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Transition Town Tooting)0