Community Garden: 20° Sunday morning!

A dozen helpers came along to the Community garden today (well, two of them were dogs…)

 

 

 

 

We: finished digging a new plot, sowed 4 different kinds of bread wheat, planted potatoes, cleared up the herb patch, sowed radishes, shifted some ancient logs about to make seats in the ‘secret corner’, spread some top-dressing from the compost heap, admired the wild primroses – and definitely enjoyed the sun, the warmth, and good company of all ages.

 

All welcome to come along any Sunday: 11:00 to 1:00. The entrance is to the side of  the large house at 5 North Drive, on the south side of Tooting Common.

Fresh & Refresh

A diverse and interesting experience was on offer this afternoon at TTT's Fresh & Refresh with quite a few new surprises, such as great Portuguese natas, bhel puri, a wishing tree, seeds, compost, craft, how to stop smoking and even a free Zumba class (see below)!

Fresh and Refresh Spring Festival - Saturday 13th April 11am to 2pm

Come along to Transition Town Tooting's Fresh And Refresh spring celebration from 11am to 2pm at Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road.. Fresh ideas to refresh the spirit - lots of fun and free activities for all ages! 

Things to do include:

• the Fresh and Refresh Walk (leaves Tooting Lido at 9am and meanders through places of interest in Tooting), ending at the venue)
• local food tasting
• sowing and growing stall - free seeds to pot up and grow on then bring your produce back to the Foodival in September
• media forum
• zumba taster session
• carbon cutting
• bee keeping with the Friends of Streatham Cemetery
• upcycling workshop by the Crafty Pint
• quitting smoking

Come along and join us - drop in at any time during the day or come early and try everything.  All welcome.

Obstbäume im Görli!

(The title means 'fruit-trees in Görli'....)

On Saturday 6^th April I was in Berlin, and was lucky to be able to join a local fruit-tree planting session along with my daughter. Coming in late after all the preparation had been done, we got involved with planting,and with making the timber protection / supports for the trees.

Nine tall bare-rooted fruit trees were being established in nine big holes - the third annual planting in Görlitzer Park by the organisers: Transition Town Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg: http://www.transitiontown-friedrichshain-kreuzberg.de/so36/obstbaeume and at http://kiezwandler.de 
Here's their great vision:
'Berlin 2030: climate-friendly, people-friendly, post-fossil fuels'

There were over sixty people there of all ages on a very cold day, and the whole setting felt like Tooting to me: doing something practical in a big urban public park in a very diverse neighbourhood, and with a very warm welcome. As in Tooting, you could sense a web of links to other city projects, funders, community groups…

Pictures by Belle tell the story:

1 Setting up the wooden posts

2 Sledgehammering

 

 

 

 

 

3 Tree protection at ground level

 

4 Plenty of support

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 Delivering a bare-rooted apple tree

 

‘Carbon Conversations’: our 7th series is completed

We have finished our latest series of local Carbon Conversations – exploring personal choices for carbon reduction in travel, home energy, food and in general consumption, all in a friendly and non-judgemental way. There were even some laughs, in a subject where gloom and self-denial seem to be the norm. But gloom and denial are hardly good motivators for change…!
Many thanks to Graveney and Meadow at 40 Mitcham Road, Tooting Broadway, for the free use of their space on the Monday evenings: much appreciated by all. Catch a glimpse of the cosy atmosphere (and the wild wallpaper) in this picture from the 'Food' meeting:

In this past week’s meeting on Consumption, we briefly looked at the relationships between carbon reduction and wellbeing. For anyone who wants to spend more time on some of the background, here are some of the books, videos and websites we referred to:
Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA, 2002
Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff, Constable, 2010
The Story of Stuff video, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8
Mike Berners-Lee, How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything, Profile Books, 2010
Voluntary Simplicity: one site is http://www.context.org/iclib/ic33/luhrs/

All welcome to join when we offer another series of Tooting Carbon Conversations! For info, email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

Report on our 'Energy we can all afford?' meeting

Our ‘Energy we can all afford?’ meeting in St Alban‘s Church, Furzedown was a very lively session (see the flyer and speakers here). Discussion was much more heated than the bitterly cold evening outside.
We touched on a set of significant and interrelated topics: wellbeing, poverty, and our own capability to keep our homes warm; UK energy policy and supply; energy costs and affordability – and what we can do to take action in response.
I won’t try to systematically summarise 7 diverse speakers, or the questions: here are some cross-cutting points from all, plus a few quotes, to consider as individuals and communities.

Some social and physical facts to do with energy, cold, and poverty

·         Though our weather isn’t the coldest, UK homes are among the coldest in Europe

·         30-50% of winter deaths are caused by cold

·         37% of Wandsworth Borough’s homes were built pre-1919 (with solid walls, so cavity  wall insulation is not possible). The national average is 23%

·         Where can home heat be wasted? Have a look at this drawing

·        10,500 households in Wandsworth are in ‘fuel poverty’ (that is, the household spends  more than 10% of income on fuel) because of varying combinations of 3 factors:  poor heating and/or insulation, low income, the high cost of fuel

·         It’s estimated that by 2016, 1 in 3 households in London could be in fuel poverty

This evening: Energy we can all afford?

Tonight we are co-hosting a free public meeting that will explore the energy challenges and opportunities that face us now - as a country, a community, and as households - and suggest practical ways forward. This event is timed to coincide with the new Energy Bill currently going through Parliament.

The meeting will be held at St Alban's Church Hall, Pretoria Road, Furzedown SW16 1RR, from 7pm to 9pm. We have a diverse and exciting group of invited speakers: please have a look at the flyer by clicking here.
Many thanks to our partners and supporters - and all welcome!

New green job experience - locally!

TTT is part of the exciting local Furzedown Low Carbon Zone project that is looking at practical ways for college students to experience the value and impact of sustainability in their courses, linked with the community.
We’re working with 3 schools at South Thames College (STC): Construction, Creative Industries, and Hair and Beauty, and with Eardley School in Furzedown, and with Kingston University.  
We thought you might like to see some highlights of recent activity!

 

Yesterday Graham Petersen hosted an event at STC which explored how sustainability can be demonstrated in High Street beauty salons, with many young and female staff. That's in contrast to the workforce in the energy and building sectors that we may associate with ‘green jobs’. College students heard about:

• global supply chains and social responsibility from Russell Richards of Aveda
• Marzena Forristal’s experience in establishing the Wink Salon in Furzedown – and both Russell and Marzena explored the sense of wellbeing linked with hair and beauty
• the Skin project guide from Clare Lawton of Capacity Global. Clare gave tips on products and chemicals, their impact on staff and customers, salon energy management – and some practical DIY recipes. The brand new report is free here. 

Rebeca,the STC Creative Industries student who is developing green media skills, made videos of the session and interviews.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Earlier, during February half term at Eardley School, Kristina the STC Construction school student took part in the first steps of the installation of a range of energy saving measures. These were selected by the school team following an energy efficiency audit of the school by Giles Read of ThinkingWorks.

And that was recorded too…so look out for the finished video in the next few weeks.

There will be an event to share our learning, at STC’s Wandsworth campus on April 23^rd – details to follow. All welcome!

All about food: Tooting Carbon Conversations on Monday 18th March

In our next free 'Carbon Conversation', we'll be looking at the choices for reducing our own carbon footprint in the food we buy (or grow...).
Our relationship with food is tied up with many aspects of our health, comfort, wellbeing, family life, enjoyment, culture: we'll touch on those.
And we'll look at the example of Hodmedods - building a new market for British crops that have been grown here for centuries. You can be a local food trailblazer!

Come and join the discussion on Monday 18th March, from 6:30pm, at Graveney and Meadow, 40 Mitcham Road, Tooting Broadway, SW17 9NA












For info, email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

A Good Talk About Books

Yesterday on World Book Day visitors to Tooting Library enjoyed a good chat about books. Dialogues were started and a few good recommendations exchanged. Many thanks to Liz, Lesley and all the very helpful staff at the Library for helping to organise.   
 "I've just had three interesting conversations with three different people that I would never normally get to meet" said one participant, which is perhaps what makes this format fun. dt

Carbon Conversations has begun - next one on Home Energy is Monday 4th March

On Monday March 4th we will be looking at carbon-reduction choices and opportunities in the home (including energy consumption and efficiency), and at 'what's important to you in your home?'

We will be joined by architect Susan Venner, who will share her experience of an 80% carbon reduction & refurbishment project at her Victorian house in Balham - done while living in it.  Susan's experience of the 'low-carbon future' now is that for the first time her house is warm! 
Click here to see some of her improvements.  
The house is open to visitors on March 23rd. Click here to book.
If you want to sample Carbon Conversations and join this meeting, we will be at Graveney and Meadow, 40 Mitcham Road, SW17 9NA, from 6:30-8:30pm.
Queries to transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

Book Talking

On World Book Day next Thursday, 7th March, TTT will run a Book Talking Event at Tooting Library in Mitcham Road from 2pm.  Similar to the Speed-Booking we did in 2011, this event will bring together Library users to sit opposite each other and talk for just a minute each about a book that they have enjoyed and want to recommend.  We hope to hear from a wide range of our community's readers about the books they love and what they love about them.  But time is limited!  Just like a speed date, when the whistle goes it's time to change seats and "talk books" all over again with a new person and their special book. We look forward to seeing as many as can make it next week at Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road for a good talk about books!

And last weekend in Tooting Library, Belinda and Iiris ran a drop-in 'Making Tooting Happy' event. See some of the kindness stories from local participants by clicking here.

Making Tooting Happy - in the Library, Sat 23rd Feb

Drop in and join Belinda at the Happiness Project session in the beautiful Tooting Library on Saturday 23rd February from 10:00am to 1pm.
 

Doing good does you good: so here is your chance to share your stories about kindness and reflect them back to your community. Evidence suggests that being kind boosts both your personal wellbeing and the wellbeing of the person to whom you are kind
Intrigued?

It’s free, friendly and fun - and no need to prepare or to book. Just drop by.

All welcome!
Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road, SW17 9PD
Info at 020 8871 7175  

Foodival 2012 Memories

Courtesy of our very own award-winning film maker Garry Samett, TTT is proud to release this awesome short film of Foodival 2012. Enjoy!

Exploring ‘The Oil Road'

An evening meeting in Tooting with James Marriott and Jane Trowell from Platform, the arts and activism group

Tuesday 5th February, Mushkil Aasaan, 220-222 Upper Tooting Road

Co-hosted by Transition Town Tooting, Wandsworth Friends of the Earth, Transition Town Wandsworth & Wandsworth Environment Forum

30 people came out on a chilly evening to Mushkil Aasaan’s welcoming hall in Tooting - thank you!

The meeting explored how we are all part of the global, regional & local Carbon Web that binds together oil and gas, trade and finance, governments and communities, wellbeing, health and justice, and the past and the future – in hidden and visible ways.

That long sentence describes a complex field where organisations and individuals have strongly-held and divergent views…and we heard some of those views during the evening. For an image of the Carbon Web, see: http://platformlondon.org/about-us/platform-the-carbon-web/ The Oil Road book describes in detail one strand of this Carbon Web, delivering oil from Azerbaijan to Europe.

Consumption & Production
James, co-author of the book, took us on a short trip along the route, in reverse – not starting with crude oil production in wells drilled 5km below the Caspian Sea, but beginning with oil consumption that some of the audience experienced minutes earlier on a bus on Upper Tooting Rd outside the hall.
We followed the bus fuel’s supply route in reverse – via the road tankers that run at night from Essex to the local bus depot; the ship that brought the fuel to England, maybe from a refinery in the Netherlands; the unrefined oil’s journey by supertanker from Turkey to Italy, and before that by pipeline across 3 countries from the Caspian. All that so we can consume in Wandsworth…

Cold water swimming, warming atmosphere, Carbon Conversations

Saturday 26th saw the UK Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Bec Lido. Over 600 swimmers raced in many different classes in sunny weather. There were no wetsuits in use...however many competitors wore excellent hats. If you have never seen the Lido, here is one swimmer's hat representing the pool, complete with Lego shark:

TTT had a stand all day - very many thanks to volunteers who stayed in the marquee, and missed some of the fun outdoors. We talked about TTT with local people and visitors: the Tooting Community Garden is only a few hundred metres away, and the Lido was a stopping point on two of our Wellbeing walks in 2012. The Lido is a wonderful example of Tooting's diverse community activities to be treasured by us all!         More at: http://www.slsc.org.uk/cwsc/cwsc-gallery/

Carbon Conversations
The water in the Lido was +2 degrees. That's a good segue: if you've been following the science of climate change, you'll know that a long-term two degree rise in the atmosphere's temperature may be an optimistically low prediction. Reported on the same day as the swim, Lord Nicholas Stern (author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change in 2006) stated in Davos at the World Economic Summit: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it's far, far worse...'

Strong words, and there is action we can each take in Tooting to help reduce emissions...and save energy, and reduce our bills.

If you would like to explore exactly what you and your household can do to reduce your own carbon footprint, please join our next series of TTT Carbon Conversations meetings. Over 50 people have joined the six series of these facilitated meetings we've run locally in the past 18 months. During the highly participative sessions, you'll discuss and make plans concerned with home energy, travel, food, consumption and waste...and meet others locally who are doing the same things.

The first meeting is on Monday 25th February, in Tooting, at Graveney & Meadow, 40 Mitcham Road. Details in the flyer at this link.

All welcome - please join us!

Happy New Year for 2013 - and all welcome to the first TTT event of the year

Best wishes to all for 2013 from all of us in TTT!

And all welcome to the first event of the year, on Tuesday 8th January: 'Designing the 2013 Tooting Foodival' 

'I grew this' from Sept 2012

Venue: Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW

Timings: from 7 to 9 pm

 

We've run the Foodival since 2008, and every year its design has developed.

 

Join us to focus on creative ways forward for the annual autumn Tooting Foodival.

 

 

Help us take stock of the Tooting Foodival's purpose and design, and join in if you would like to be involved in the 2013 Foodival.

All welcome - lots of local people have contributed to the Foodival over 5 years - please do come along even if this is a new activity for you!

 

In the second part of the meeting we will look at a new proposal for a springtime day of activities in Tooting - please come along and find out more. Email transitiontowntooting@gmail.com if you have any queries.

Looking back at last year, here's a 'word cloud' of recent posts on this blog:

The sizes of the words and phrases shown relate to how often the words occurred in the blog - so the whole image offers a visual, graphic summary of activities in the last 3 months of 2012. Try one yourself - this was done online at http://www.wordle.net/  It can be addictive!

Re-SPARKLE! and SewVember

TTT's last two monthly public sessions in Tooting have both been         all about making - creating things, making time with other people, learning some new skills.

SewVember was a great success, and here's some pictures from last Saturday's Reduce, Re-use, Re-Sparkle! crafts event run together with colleagues in the beautiful Tooting Library:

 

You'll see we made bird decorations, reindeer, wallets from juice cartons, scrap paper bags for gifts (or to keep), and small worlds in jam jars....and more. We'll post a slide show of more photos soon...it was a great afternoon, and thanks to all the helpers and participants.

Looking forward to the next time!

 



Reduce, Re-use, ReSPARKLE!

Please join us on Saturday 15th December from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm for an exciting afternoon of Christmas making in Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road. This time we'll be focusing on what we can do with paper: folding, cutting, glueing, decorating...
All welcome: drop-in activities for all ages. No need to book. For flyer, please click here.

Wildlife Gardening Forum, London

Two of us from TTT joined the Wildlife Gardening Forum on 28 November - a hundred people face to face from many sectors and all sizes of organisation: government departments, researchers, urban farmers, scientists, community enterprises, architects, 'green infrastructure' experts...and individual gardeners.

The programme (see it here.) was an excellent fit with local steps to a sustainable Tooting - at the very practical level of bringing more of nature into all our lives, and appreciating nature's relationship with our wellbeing, as well as responding to global challenges like the growth of cities and climate change.

For interest: do you know...
That over 60% of the area of the City of London is roofed - a third of which is suitable now to become 'green roofs' growing native plants, cooling the environment, and looking beautiful?

The Forum aims to share practice, knowledge, and science, not hot air - and that reminds me, the meeting was held in a retrofitted tram shed which has been developed to the 'passive house' standard: super-insulated, airtight...and with no supplementary heating at all. Great to have the location, and the topic, all joined up!

It left me with positive examples of things we can do together locally. In particular it was great timing in relation to the current community consultation on plans for Springfield Park, and the opportunity to make sustainability and biodiversity the foundations for all the activities of the new Park.
We'll follow up with more about that - for now, see www.springfieldregeneration.co.uk

Green Gown Award presentation 27th November

Sadiq Khan MP presented the 'Best Newcomer' Green Gown Award from the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges to Sue Rimmer, Principal of South Thames College, at the Furzedown Project in Moyser Road.

This local project with the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone involved many partners, including Transition Town Tooting.

The Award citation described the project as 'an excellent example of a local sustainability alliance: learning with and learning from other organisations and sectors'.



Andy Marks, Head Teacher of Eardley School, outlined the new project starting in the school: the first step is an energy efficiency evaluation being carried out this week. 
 
And we had an excellent celebratory cake!

Many thanks to all the project's participants and supporters - we will share more updates soon. For more about the Award, please see the more detailed posting below in this blog.

Vision & Pathways 2012

Some of the hands that contributed to this weekend's Vision & Pathways Day, again held at the fantastic chapel in Streatham Cemetery.  Thanks to everyone who contributed, especially Malik Gul of WCEN and Graham Peterson of the Greener Jobs Alliance who both joined us over lunch.

Will Tooting begin to look like this imagined plasticine scene some time in the near future?  (Where Jane claims dogs will rule ... which might fit with Jasmine's petting zoo ...)


And what a lot of potential projects we have to develop in 2013 (see left)  How will we choose?

Lots of food for thought ... & a great selection of home made food brought by everyone (thanks Mal for organising).

We did some listening:

some stretching:

and some prioritising:

One of our next steps will be to refine TTT's Strategy.  We'll share when and how we'll do that: all welcome to contribute.



Day of Stories in Tooting Library - Visions for Tooting on a big jigsaw

On Saturday 3rd November TTT helped Tooting Library run a drop-in Day of Stories.
Library staff and volunteers read engaging stories, Alison offered a participative 'live' story, and Jane & Charles ran 2 hours of making and crafts that also told a story: 'What would you like to see in Tooting?'

Children and adults took part, and there was a great atmosphere on the first floor of the Library - the sun streaming in the windows, mixed ages busy on different activities on the carpet or tables, a row of other young people on the computers, storytelling in the middle of the space: all in all, certainly what we love to see in Tooting! 



Many thanks to Liz, Bill and Heather in the Library. We are hoping to be be offering crafts and making again on Saturday December 15th in the Library - more details to follow, and please come along.

Green Gown Awards 2012: the winner is our shared project in Tooting's Furzedown Low Carbon Zone

South Thames College has won the prestigious 2012 Green Gown Award in the 'Best Newcomer' category, from a strong field of 5 other finalists.

Sadiq Khan MP will celebrate the Award with a local presentation to Sue Rimmer, Principal of South Thames College

The Green Gown Awards recognise exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken in tertiary education across the UK
This award was won for the project carried out in the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone with the Greener Jobs Alliance, Transition Town Tooting, and other valued local partners.
That's fantastic recognition of hard work, and will help enormously with the profile (and funding!) of further projects.

For all the detail, see the Winner's brochure: on page 4 there's the detail about our project -  including a picture of a TTT Carbon Conversations workshop in action in Furzedown. Go to the Awards website at http://www.eauc.org.uk/2012_green_gown_awards

We made this video in spring 2012 about the project - do have another look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRx6tNFG8U

Award celebration:
There's a celebration on Tuesday November 27th from 6 to 7pm at the Furzedown Project, 91-93 Moyser Road, SW16.
Sadiq Khan MP will present the Award to Sue Rimmer, Principal of South Thames College
All welcome for some celebration cake!
Details in the Events listing here on the TTT blog, and for a .pdf copy of the celebration flyer, click here.

 

For more information, email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com 

Day of Stories in Tooting Library: Saturday 3rd Nov

Tooting Library + Transition Town Tooting present a free Day of Stories. Saturday 3rd November. Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road, SW17 9PD. Phone: 020 8871 7175

Come and celebrate the magic of stories at Tooting Library!

Throughout the day staff and volunteers will be sharing some of their favourite stories in the specially-created Story Zone, featuring classics and new favourites. And, help put together a visual story of a sustainable future in Tooting!

The Day of Story at Tooting Library marks the launch of Transition Town Tooting's Imagining Tooting project, which is gathering together views and ideas on a flourishing local future for Tooting, from many voices in the community.

Programme for the day:
10:30 am. Story: Handa's Surprise, and Handa's Hen
11:00 am. Story: Peace at Last and The Tiger Who Came to Tea
11:30 am. Story: The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child

12:00-2:00pm. Crafts & making with TTT. Come along and use the craft materials provided to make props and illustrations for a creative story about our shared future in Tooting.
For all ages - families, individuals, children and young people are welcome to join in. Drop in or stay as long as you like.
No art experience necessary - just bring along your interest in Tooting, and try out some fun techniques with TTT.

2:00 pm. Story: Local storyteller Alison Royce presents her Stories of Wonder and  Surprise, for ages 7-adult.
2:30 pm. Story: Mog the Forgetful Cat and The Rainbow Fish
3:00 pm. Story: Dog's Don't do Ballet and Goldilocks and Just the One Bear

Children's and adults' book-sale all day

Coming up: arts and energy - last weekend it was food and growing

Starting on Saturday 20th October, there's an interactive installation developed by local school children and artists at Sprout Arts, 74 Moyser Rd. Details here.

Come along this weekend if you would like to get involved with making and creating, and from Monday 22nd, this story of the Three Little Pigs continues as an exciting exhibition.

Coming up on Monday 22nd October, there's the latest meeting of the Furzedown Low Carbon Zone, at 7pm at the Furzedown Project, Moyser Road. Details here

One exciting project we'll report on is the brand-new Archimedes screw turbine that is now producing power in the River Wandle at Morden Hall: enough for 16 households' annual power use.

What can we do locally to generate some community energy?

Please do come along!

Last weekend, TTT had a stand at St George's Community Open Day on Sat 13th October. We displayed pictures of the community garden, met many interested people, and played the carbon food-chain game made of recycled boxes.
Come and try it at another event...here are two groups of young people arranging the boxes in rank order of 'food miles':

Growing in the City - October 8th

On October 8th we had our TTT monthly open public meeting, focused on Growing in the City - growing plants, food, relationships, skills, connections, enterprises, awareness of nature...

We looked at a dozen examples of diverse local London garden and growing projects.....

We discussed what they are aiming to achieve, and what 'drivers for change' (urban biodiversity loss, or people's wish for local food) that these gardens are responding to. We looked at some global responses to the same urban challenges, and made links to the origins and activities of Transition Towns.

We continued with a planning discussion for the Tooting Community Garden, revisiting its purpose and our own separate and shared reasons for spending time in the Garden, and explored some questions:
> How complex do we want the project to become?
> Could we commit to producing salad or herbs for a local restaurant? (A real challenge, because a request from a supportive local restaurant owner was put on the table)

We'll summarise the notes of the meeting, and share them. If you would like to be involved with the Community Garden group, come along to 5 North Drive on the south side of Tooting Common (look for us behind the large house) between 11:00 and 1:00 on Sundays, and join our planning get-togethers too.
Email Adrian at adifalconer@hotmail.com for any more info.
All welcome!

Transition Town Tooting on the web

Each day in the week of October 1st, the Transition Network website posted informal reports from different London Transition groups.
Here is the link for a report from Transition Tooting:
https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-blogger/2012-10/transition-town-tooting-five-ways-wellbeing
To view the other London accounts, click on 'Guest Bloggers'.

TTT appears in another Transition blog, in an account of a session we offered during the Transition Conference held in Battersea on Saturday Sept 15th. It was a section of the Treasuring Tooting Walk. There's that photo of feet in the Lido again!http://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/mark-watson/2012-09/humans-flying-walking-backwards-future-and-dipping-our-feet-lido

And - remember the wonderful Tooting Transition Shop in Upper Tooting Road in May? A video of the nine-day project has been posted at https://vimeo.com/48938206

Happy viewing!

Latest TTT email 1st October

The latest TTT email has been sent today - please click here to read it.

Or sign up to receive it, by emailing transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

PS: Join this bee and visit the Community Garden! 11-1 on Sundays; public meeting Monday 8th October at The Selkirk - details in TTT mail