Hello everyone We will be having our monthly meet-up on Wednesday, July 21st at 7pm. ** WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR MONTHLY MEET-UP + “GROUNDING” SESSION. This will be a chance for you to meet up with fellow transitioners and other like-minded folks. We will be meeting at the BARRIE CITY HALL in the HURONIA ROOM on [...]

Greetings fellow Transitioners, ** WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR MONTHLY MEET-UP + “GROUNDING” SESSION. This will be a chance for you to meet up with fellow transitioners and other like-minded folks. We will be meeting at the BARRIE CITY HALL in the HURONIA ROOM on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16th at 7pm. We’ll wrap up somewhere around 9pm. The Huronia [...]

There is a very important talk on TED that we wanted to share with you. It is by an ecologist named Jeremy Jackson on “How we wrecked the ocean”. In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get [...]

Stay tuned for a report-back from our monthly “grounding” meetings.

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, [...]

OFFICIAL RIBBON CUTTING: Sunnidale Community Garden – Official Opening Event You are invited to attend the Ribbon Cutting Event for the official opening of the City of Barrie’s first community garden. The event will celebrate the culmination of the efforts of the many people who have worked hard in brining this concept to fruition. The official opening will mark these efforts on Earth [...]

Dear Friends, Thank you for taking the time to read our second newsletter for Transition Barrie. Transition Barrie is a volunteer, grass-roots initiative with the objective of helping Barrie prepare for the approaching challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. The response to both of these issues is the same in that we must dramatically [...]

“Activism doesn’t change the fundamental model of society, whereas what Transition attempts to do is create a new model.” -  Chris Smedley, Transition Town Lewes by Robin Barton Most of us enjoyed a good night’s sleep last night. A warm bed, soft pillow, that sort of thing. But for the past six months, during the [...]

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