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 [...]

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 [...]

Co- sponsored by The Huronia Unitarians and Transition Barrie A guided discussion group that will challenge the prevailing worldview presented to us by media, our power elites and financial interests. The goal is to change consciousness which will enable more of us to begin the work that has been called the great turning or the [...]

Transition Barrie is presenting a series of visioning sessions and design charettes to explore the possibilities for developing the City of Barrie’s annexed lands to the south thru the principles of Permaculture. Hosted by Steve Dearlove, the intent and goal of these charettes is to come up with a conceptual layout/plan to present to the [...]

Come Play in Our Backyard Back to Basics Social Developments, a non-profit organization founded by Andrew Miller, is dedicated to implementing creative solutions for the challenges we face in our increasingly globalized society. The group strives to bring a sense of community to our daily lives by focusing on local solutions to pressing issues. The [...]