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 reduce [...]

STEERING THROUGH UNCERTAIN TIMES
Climate Change / Energy Decline / Economic Chaos
Transition Barrie is a citizen led initiative, founded in May 2009, to explore how Barrie can adapt to these issues and become a better and stronger community.

On October 24th, we held our first Open Space event.
Click here to see the summary notes from this day: TransitionBarrie-OST_oct24

If you are getting involved with Transition Barrie, you will want to read the Transitions Initiatives Primer.
It provides comprehensive information about embarking on a transition journey .. and is recommended reading.
You can get the latest copy of the document from the Transition Towns WIKI.
Thank-you for taking interest !

According to the Guardian, a well respected news source located in the UK, two “whistleblowers” have come forward alleging that we are actually in peak oil today and the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been fudging the numbers for a few years. This is supported by the comments in the award winning documentary “Oil [...]

Erich Jacoby-Hawkins has written a great article on Transitioning for “Root Issues” in the Barrie Examiner. Here’s a link to the article: Transitioning Barrie to resiliency.
Way to go Erich !

Marina Gavrilov
Feb 18, 2009
Leo Tolstoy in his timeless classic Anna Karenina wrote: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. The same can be said about whole societies. The era of globalization has spread the economic, social and cultural tentacles of capitalism all over the world. Unification has declared [...]