What's New
We’re Official!
As of February 2, 2010 Transition Barrie joined the 276 other communities that are officially part of the worldwide Transition Network.
The Transition Network is an international organization inspiring, supporting and encouraging local Transition Towns. These Transition Towns, Communities or Initiatives work to address the issues of peak oil, climate chaos, and economic dislocation cooperatively, honestly, [...]
Recent Posts
Welcome to Transition Barrie. There is a lot going on! Here are some recent additions to the website:
Recommended Readings
The Resilient Newsletter
Dear Friends, thank you for taking the time to read our first newsletter for Transition Barrie. Transition Barrie is a ...
Notes from the Open Space Event
STEERING THROUGH UNCERTAIN TIMES Climate Change / Energy Decline / Economic Chaos Transition Barrie is a citizen led initiative, founded in May 2009, to ...
Transition Initiatives Primer
If you are getting involved with Transition Barrie, you will want to read the Transitions Initiatives Primer. It provides comprehensive information ...
Announcements
GEAR (Georgian College) Events! In light of GEARS own movie screening nights (Every wednedyas, startin Jan 20th, @ Georgia Colleges Roundtree Theatre @ 7pm), here is a non-exclusive list of events, activites and groups that members of the GEAR group might be interested in checking out for the month of January.
In Toronto: Certainly not limited to…
Free film screening of [...]
Nifty Thrifty Grand Opening The Grand Opening of “Nifty Thrifty and the Barrie Free Clothing Centre” was on Saturday, January 16th from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
There was A good showing from the Living Green Board and Transition Barrie to support the extraordinary efforts of Valerie and her band of volunteers. Councillor Jeff Lehman was present for the ribbon [...]
Local events
Environmental Film Showing at Georgian College Georgian College’s environmental action group, “GEAR” is living up to its name by ‘Getting Environmental Attitudes Rolling’.
Visit the Rowntree Theatre @ Georgian College
Every Wednesday night @ 7pm
Each week we will be showing different thought-provoking movies and documentaries with environmental themes. These movies have been at the heart of the ‘Green movement’ and we want you [...]
Community Update? If there is an event coming up, please email us at info@transitionbarrie.org so that we can post it here!
Energy Security
Truth about Fossil Fuel Emissions The documentary/movie “The Inconvenient Truth” enlightened everyone who
watched about the condition of the planet and what we have done to it. Much
of what the movie was based on was the increase in CO2 in our atmosphere.
The numbers have been updated through 2008 and affirm the facts presented in
“An Inconvenient Truth”, in fact, indicating a [...]
Integrated Community Energy Solutions Energy needs everyone’s input and ideas to reduce AND generate, “resources” fosters a thinking basis for the blog.
Integrated Community Energy Solutions (ICES) is a program recently released by the Feds. All levels of government have provided input. Generally speaking, it is a proactive plan to meet energy requirements in the future. It is implied by 2010 that we [...]
