This Huffington Post column, by Prevention Institute’s Larry Cohen, explains how the Gulf oil spill connects to common goals – including food, transportation, and the built environment. The BP Gulf Oil spill makes one thing clear: our health and the planet’s health are inextricably linked. Poisoned sea life, oil-drowned coastlines, sickening toxins in the air—it’s [...]

Come to the Transition Oasis at this Saturday, June 12th at Ecofest and you can relax with water or coffee and chat with us about Transition Town Barrie.  Transition Oasis will be having lots of wonderful mini-presentations and live music offered at various times throughout the day.  Check out our presentation board at the tent [...]

Think you can’t garden because you’re in an apartment? Check out this very cool idea called “Window Farms” It started in New York with some innovative urban gardeners who were looking for a cost effective way to have greens all year long. The primary materials are: re-purposed 1 liter pop bottles, some tubing and a [...]

Transition Barrie is thrilled to present ‘Awakening the Dreamer.’  This stirring presentation will show us how to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on the planet. The Symposium explores the current state of our planet from a new perspective, and connects participants with a powerful global movement to reclaim [...]