The Shocking cost of Energy  Financial … Social … Environmental Shocking increases in the cost of electricity over the past several years have meant a nearly 50% hike in residential electricity prices. The province of Ontario tells us that our growing electricity bills are caused by the move to pricier but cleaner energy such as [...]

  Transition Barrie extends a warm welcome to anyone interested in participating in the Transition Barrie Food Secure Network.  Our first meeting took place on Tuesday, May 1st at the Barrie Community Health Centre. Our primary areas of focus was to help to organize food related monthly meet ups, education and skill building efforts, multi media [...]

Transition Barrie is collecting Corelle Plates.  We need dinner plates and the smaller sized, side plates.  The reason we decided on Corelle is because they are uniform in size, light in weight, and easy to stack.  We are working towards having enough for about 200 people.  We have collected silverware and have enough for 200 [...]

These are pictures from the 2011 Gardening Class 101. We went from a backyard that only had grass to a backyard with 9 raised beds and enough produce to feed several families. Our teacher Kim Keckes from Moondance Organic Gardens, was excellent. I had never gardened before and as you can see from the pictures, we had a lot of success. If you wish to join the class this year, contact us as soon as you can. Cut off is March 15th. We only have room for 15 participants. Perhaps some of you “Last year gardeners” would like to take the advance course at Moondance Organic Gardens. Email Karen at rightmove@sympatico.ca or call 705-721-6867

121 Mary Street Barrie Urban Gardening Classes Local Food Benefits- Plant, Grow, Eat, Feel Great! Gardening Classes once a month from March to July Cost $60.00 for entire season Snacks and gardening advice included Contact Karen Fox 705 721 6867 March 26th – plan where to grow, how to grow – what to grow & [...]

When: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 7:00 PM Where: 200 College Street West room 116, Toronto, ON It is with great pleasure that Post Carbon Toronto and Transition Toronto host an evening with Tyler Hamilton. Award winning journalist, author, adjunct professor, Corporate Knights magazine editor-in-chief, and contributor to MIT’s Technology Review. And as if this wasn’t [...]

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 [...]