Resilience Collaborative   COUCHICHING INSTITUTE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS Rountable Discussion Researching Wellbeing Finding a new place to start policy Facilitated by  GARY MACHAN, MSW Health Promoter, Barrie Community Health Centre WHEN: Friday October 21st from – 2:00PM-till 4:00PM WHERE: BARRIE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE 56 Bayfield St Barrie, ON University dwest@lakeheadu.ca or by phone 705-330-4008,ext. 2694,  Kaylen Leonienco [...]

Join us on September 21st for our monthly meet up.  It will be held at our usual spot on the second floor of City Hall in the Huronia Room.  There will be signs to direct you.  This month we will be screening the award winning film “the Economics of Happiness” by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick [...]

This month’s topic was “Local Food”   Our presentation concentrated on where to buy local food and the advantages in “Eating Local Food”.  A panel of speakers joined us to enlighten the audience about why buying local is so important.  There was a representative from “The Good Food Box” which is run out of the Barrie Community Health Centre on Sophia [...]

      Transition Barrie * March Update                                                                    Transition Barrie is a grassroots, volunteer, community group of citizens concerned about the impact of Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Crisis, on our lives. We look at ways to make our community more resilient to the effects of these changes through workshops, discussions and forums. [...]

  (Cartoon – Brian Gable/The Globe and Mail) From Friday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 18, 2011 2:00AM EDT Last updated Friday, Mar. 18, 2011 8:32AM EDT  THOMAS HOMER-DIXON Fukushima. For most Westerners, the word doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. Soon it will. It w ill become part of our shared lexicon – [...]

Transition Barrie is a grassroots, volunteer, community group of citizens concerned about the impact of Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Crisis, on our lives. We look at ways to make our community more resilient to the effects of these changes through workshops, discussions and forums. As events unfold we are endeavoring to be informed [...]

Saturday the 22nd of January was a exciting day for Transition Barrie.  World renowned speaker Nicole Foss spoke at Georgian Collage’s Rowntree Theatre.  In conjunction with Georgian’s environmentalist group Gear, and Transition Barrie, we had a full house.  If you missed this wonderful event, here is a link to Nicole’s site.  She writes under the [...]

Transition Barrie recently held a ‘Simplify the Holidays’ event at Barrie’s Library. It was meant to help folks to get through the holidays with as little stress as possible. Ideas were presented on how to organize, suggestions for gifts & entertaining and plans for activities.   What we learned from this experience was that Christmas, Hanukkah [...]

Over the course of the past decade, there has been a growing realization on the part of many Canadians that there is a significant disconnect between a rising GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and the reality of their day to day lives. That is, even prior to the last recession, many Canadians struggled to maintain their [...]