TTT's '12 tweets to Christmas': here is tweet no. 1

TTT's '12 tweets to Christmas'

We're going to tweet every day from now until Christmas Eve on practical, creative, seasonal & interesting sustainability themes. 

Here is the welcoming tweet:
Today we begin @tttooting's 12 tweets to Christmas, built on our email newsletter last month ow.ly/FMPV5 Join in!

And here is tweet number one:
No.1 in @tttooting's 12 day to xmas: Source your dinner locally. Use a tool like @findlocalfood's ow.ly/FMQcO or @MadeInTooting

Follow us on twitter (@tttooting) and retweet the messages, and we'll follow you. The more the merrier....and please join in and tweet us your sustainability tips too.
If you are not on twitter, you can read the posts here on the TTT blog, one a day. Do email us more ideas here.

Yes it's a challenge to be concise and fit a message into 140 characters - it must be good practice! Actually it is quite addictive...
And we haven't written these as a committee - the tweets are simply what diverse individuals have volunteered to share.
If it catches on....we could do a run of New Year's Resolutions in Jan?

Our twitter address again: @tttooting 

Made in Tooting

We have a new project promoting all things Made In Tooting. It's the brainchild of low impact living initiative founder Dave Darby who has organised an inaugural meeting on Wednesday June 18th - all welcome.  Over to Dave to explain the concept in more detail:

The idea is to promote local businesses making things in Tooting, and also to help people make (and grow) things themselves. We have a web address and a twitter account (@MadeInTooting) but they're not live yet. The idea is that local businesses making things in Tooting are promoted on the website, as are the small shops, restaurants and bars stocking the local produce.
That way, people interested in buying things made locally can find places near where they live to buy them.

There must be hundreds of small business making things in Tooting (as well as north, south, west and east Tooting, sometimes called Balham, Mitcham, Wimbledon and Streatham). Let's find them and promote them!  I've already made contact with By the Horns brewery (beer); Naked Loaf (bread); the Urban Wine Company (Chateau Tooting!); Nuff Naturals (skin-care products). They're all keen to get involved.  I've also talked to a few local shopkeepers about stocking 'Made in Tooting' products, and the idea was well-received. So there are plenty of things to do:

1. finding and talking to more local businesses
2. talking to local shops, bars and restaurants
3. designing and building the website
4. designing a logo
5. making a flier to give to local shops
6. maybe making a 'Made in Tooting' shelf sticker
7. researching what other similar groups are up to
8. helping people make and grow their own things locally

If any of this appeals to you, and/or if you'd like to come along on the 18th, contact Dave on dave@lowimpact.org