We will be having our monthly meet-up on Wednesday, July 21st at 7pm.

** WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR MONTHLY MEET-UP + “GROUNDING” SESSION.

This will be a chance for you to meet up with fellow transitioners and other like-minded folks. We will be meeting at the BARRIE CITY HALL in the HURONIA ROOM on WEDNESDAY, JULY 21st at 7pm. We’ll wrap up somewhere around 9pm.

The Huronia Room is up the stairs or elevator from the main rotunda, and a little ways down the hall on the second floor.

This is an informal gathering of all who are able to attend. We’ll have some activities and topics planned for discussion. But the main intention is to involve you, and everyone else who is able to attend: Let’s start building a shared vision for Barrie together.

If you can’t make it this time, stay tuned. We’ll have another one next month.

In the meantime, please email us at info@transitionbarrie.org anytime if you would like to get more involved.
In transition,

Transition Barrie, Heart&Soul Group

Greetings fellow Transitioners,

** WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR MONTHLY MEET-UP + “GROUNDING” SESSION.

This will be a chance for you to meet up with fellow transitioners and other like-minded folks. We will be meeting at the BARRIE CITY HALL in the HURONIA ROOM on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16th at 7pm. We’ll wrap up somewhere around 9pm.

The Huronia Room is up the stairs or elevator from the main rotunda, and a little ways down the hall on the second floor.

This is an informal gathering of all who are able to attend. We’ll have some activities and topics planned for discussion. But the main intention is to involve you, and everyone else who is able to attend: Let’s start building a shared vision for Barrie together.

If you can’t make it this time, stay tuned. We’ll have another one next month.

In the meantime, please email us at info@transitionbarrie.org anytime if you would like to get more involved.
In transition,

Transition Barrie, Heart&Soul Group

Come to the Transition Oasis at this Saturday, June 12^th 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 entrance for presentation times.  A list of the presentations are below:

• Water for health
• Raw foods
• Urban harvesting
• Square foot gardening
• Plastic mats for Haiti
• Ecological Farmers
• Site 41
• Movement
• Yoga breathing
• Rugs from recycled materials
• Crafts from recycled materials
• Build an electric bike
• Make sauerkraut
• Make artisan bread
• Learn about Transition Towns

This summer is going to be an exciting time for Transition Barrie. We are now “officially recognized” as one of Canada’s fifteen Transition Town initiatives. There is still a lot of ground to cover, but “Transition Barrie” is starting to take shape.

Coming up fast is the “Transition Oasis” at Barrie’s first annual Ecofest Ecology Festival. We also have a number of additional projects and initiatives underway. Our latest newsletter can fill you in on the details — it can be found here: [http://transitionbarrie.org/features/our-resilient-newsletter-march-2009/]. We have been in touch with everyone who has reached out — and are now starting to form our initial working groups. But we’re really just getting started!

** WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO OUR FIRST MONTHLY MEET-UP +
“GROUNDING” SESSION.

This will be a chance for you to meet up with fellow transitioners and other like-minded folks. We will be meeting at the BARRIE CITY HALL in the HURONIA ROOM on *this* THURSDAY, MAY 20th at 7pm. We’ll wrap up somewhere around 9pm.

(The room is located on the second floor you must enter off the Worsley street entrance into the rotunda. Take the stairs or elevator (located in rotunda) to second floor. The room is south west of the stairway and is signed.)

This is an informal gathering of all who are able to attend. We’ll have some activities and topics planned for discussion. But the main intention is to involve you, and everyone else who is able to attend: Let’s start building a shared vision for Barrie together.

If you can’t make it this time, stay tuned. We’ll have another one next month.

In the meantime, please email us at info@transitionbarrie.org anytime if you would like to get more involved.
In transition,

Transition Barrie, Heart&Soul Group

The Transition Network is an international organization inspiring, supporting and encouraging local Transition Towns. These Transition Towns, Communities or Initiatives work to address the issues of peak oil, climate chaos, and economic dislocation cooperatively, honestly, and with confidence.

As members of the Transition Network, Transition Barrie will use the collective genius of our people to find ways to
• significantly rebuild resilience in response to peak oil and economic dislocation.
• significantly reduce carbon emissions in response to climate change
• encourage ordinary citizens to take effective action towards positive change.

We seek to create new models of grassroots transformation to ensure a better future for our community in the face of the economic and environmental challenges before us.

Last May, twelve volunteers gathered to discuss the coming crises and how we in Barrie should respond. We agreed to use the Transition Towns model from the UK to guide us in finding ways to plan for the inevitable changes coming to Barrie. We have held a number of events to inform the community about transition. We have now grown from twelve to well over one hundred participants.

To become an official member of the network, we had to satisfy eighteen criteria. Among these, Transition Barrie showed that we had number of committed, informed leaders ready to take action. We showed that we had members officially trained in the Transition Initiative. (In fact, we have five such trained leaders.) We agreed that our members would work cooperatively and inclusively with the community, the Network and other Transition Towns. We showed that we had an understanding of the challenges of peak oil and climate chaos.

We are pleased that we have been able to come so far in less than nine months.

If you wish to join our mailing list, simply fill out the “Let’s Keep in Touch..” box at the top-right of the web site.

We would love to hear from you. Please contact us at info@transitionbarrie.org

Click here to register:
http://awakeningthedreamer.org/component/option,com_events/type,event/task,details/id,1624

See the attached poster to find out the details of the event.  Call Karen Fox 721-6867 or Ruth Blaicher 737-5768,  if you need more information.

Sunnidale Community Garden – Official Opening Event

You are invited to attend the Ribbon Cutting Event for the official opening of the City of Barrie’s first community garden. The event will celebrate the culmination of the efforts of the many people who have worked hard in brining this concept to fruition. The official opening will mark these efforts on Earth Day to recognize the fundamental connection of food with land and to encourage a bountiful harvest from this growing season.

When: April 22, 2010

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Where: Sunnidale Community Garden, located within Sunnidale Park backing onto the Coulter Street curve.

Event will proceed rain or shine.  ALL ARE WELCOME.

Please click on Sunnidale Community Garden for more information.

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On March 28th 2010, a group of hard working folks got together to finish installing the community garden plots at the new location behind Canadian Tire and at the back of Sunnidale Park, on Coulter St.. We had men, women and children all digging in to get the plots ready for planting in the early spring. Kyla Cotton of Urban Harvester www.urbanharvester.ca), who worked with the City of Barrie (link) and Living Green Barrie (link) to get these gardens up and going, kept everyone busy. Some members brought food and a good time was had by all.

Want to get involved? Click [here] for a sign-up form and apply for a garden plot today.

Take a look at some of the pictures below! Be sure to leave a comment if you like.

All notes + ideas from the session will be emailed out to participants within the week.

A big thanks again to Fair Trade Barrie for providing some beverages, and thanks to the City of Barrie for providing the space.

Please click here to access the notes from our event: http://transitionbarrie.org/TransitionBarrie-OST_oct24.doc

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.

Come out for this important interactive forum about the need to make the transition from a cheap-oil economy to a low-carbon, more local society.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 24^TH

1PM – 4PM

HURONIA ROOM – BARRIE CITY HALL

Please contact us at info@transitionbarrie.org

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