The “Barrie Reel Stories” film festival will present “Surviving Progress on Saturday at 1pm. Several Transition members will be attending and will meet outside the theatre at 12:30. Cost is $9.00. All are welcome. Surviving Progress is a stunning new feature documentary that connects the financial collapse, growing inequity, and the Wall Street oligarchy, with [...]

Transition Barrie presents You Are Here! The Oil Journey A Post Carbon Institute Production Written by Richard Heinberg Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:00 – 9:00PM On January 10th Transition Barrie hosted Nicole Foss aka Stoneleigh to a captivating presentation on the fast evolving deterioration of global financial systems including the impending collapse of the Euro [...]

Southshore Community Center 205 Lakeshore Drive, Barrie Tuesday January 10th at 7 PM to 9:30 PM     Less than one year ago, world renowned energy analyst, blogger and author, Nicole Foss, spoke in Barrie about the pending demise of the European Union and the deteriorating financial situation in the USA. Join us to hear [...]

December Social at Casa Mia Tuesday December 13. Come and celebrate the Christmas season with Transition friends. We’ll have snacks and and drinks starting at 6:00pm and going on . . . and on . . . This is a Meet-up without a topic, a chance to share stories and get to know people better. [...]

Our Perma Culture Group has been meeting to discuss the new land that Barrie has annexed to the south of the city in what was formerly part of Innisfil township.  We would like to see the City of Barrie develop these lands in a more sustainable manner.  The old building ways of “Urban Sprawl” is [...]

My name is Jeremy Prutchick and I’m thrilled to be a part of Transition Barrie. Being an Environmental Technology student at Georgian College, I’ve learned firsthand about the various issues that our environment faces; one such issue is the constantly rising change in climate all over the world. For any young people reading these too, [...]

It is that time of the week again; the cupboards are getting empty and we need groceries. No problem, we’ll just go to our supermarket and buy the foods we need. Since the car trip is a short one, we won’t be emitting a lot of CO2, right? Well… maybe not. What we never think about, [...]

Life is made up of a series of unexpected events that we are not always quite prepared for. Are you prepared? And what exactly does that mean? Remember the Great Ice Storm of ’98? Or how about the tornado that touched down in Barrie in 1985 or more recently the two tornados  in Midland just [...]

  Resilience Collaborative   COUCHICHING INSTITUTE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS Rountable Discussion Researching Wellbeing Finding a new place to start policy Facilitated by  GARY MACHAN, MSW Health Promoter, Barrie Community Health Centre WHEN: Friday October 21st from – 2:00PM-till 4:00PM WHERE: BARRIE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE 56 Bayfield St Barrie, ON University dwest@lakeheadu.ca or by phone 705-330-4008,ext. 2694,  Kaylen Leonienco [...]