OFFICIAL RIBBON CUTTING: 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 [...]

Our Oct 24 Open Space event was a great success. Thank-you to all who came out to take part! 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 [...]

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. Come out for this important interactive forum about the need to make the transition from a cheap-oil economy to [...]

Our next meeting will be based on Open Space Technology. In fact, the entire Transition movement is based on using Open Space Technology. “We’ve found Open Space Technology to be a highly effective approach to running meetings for Transition Initiatives. In theory it ought not to work. A large group of people comes together to [...]

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