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 [...]

Our Perma culture group has been busy working on a plan for the development of the annexed lands in Barrie.  We have looked at Perma culture principals and LEED ND for guidance and have come up with several recommendations and ideas for a walkable, sustainable community in Barrie’s south end annexed areas.   We made a presentation [...]

Our First Backyard Bounty class was held on July 18th 2011.  It was a follow up from our gardening class. Several people got together to examine what to do with all of the “stuff we had grown in our gardens.” The focus of the classes were to prepare simple, real food that comes from our [...]

Mike Fox from Transition Barrie and Gary Machan from the Barrie Community Health Centre make a presentation to Barrie council on the topic of local food on Monday the 26th of September. The presentation focused on the health, environmental and economic benefits of local foods. The purpose was to request that the City of Barrie develop [...]

Join us on September 21st for our monthly meet up.  It will be held at our usual spot on the second floor of City Hall in the Huronia Room.  There will be signs to direct you.  This month we will be screening the award winning film “the Economics of Happiness” by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick [...]