My name is Jeremy Prutchick and I’m thrilled to be a part of Transition Barrie. Being an Environmental Technology student at Georgian College, I’ve learned firsthand about the various issues that our environment faces; one such issue is the constantly rising change in climate all over the world. For any young people reading these too, [...]

It is that time of the week again; the cupboards are getting empty and we need groceries. No problem, we’ll just go to our supermarket and buy the foods we need. Since the car trip is a short one, we won’t be emitting a lot of CO2, right? Well… maybe not. What we never think about, [...]

Thomas Homer-Dixon, Professor at the Centre for Environmental and Business in the Faculty of Environment, at the University of Waterloo, wrote an excellent piece for the Globe and Mail in 2006 about how to deal with an increasingly uncertain future. It is as useful today as it was then – click here for the article.

(From Greenpeace Canada) Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation and a Climate and Energy Campaigner with Greenpeace, describes the impact of oil and gas developments and the recent oil spill in the traditional territory of the Lubicon Cree in northern Alberta.

Read the People’s Food Policy http://www.peoplesfoodpolicy.ca/home

  An extraordinary event took place in Washington, D.C. this past weekend.  Over 10,000 young people came together for Power Shift 2011 — a 3-day conference to train, organize, and mobilize for climate action in the United States. The US has been an obstacle to climate action for years, so seeing the power and energy [...]

click on this link to learn more about the Canadian Index of Wellbeing http://www.ciw.ca/en/Home.aspx

Enjoy this move trailer from the Transition culture network http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/28/film-review-the-economics-of-happiness/

Enjoy this movie posted by Transition Culture Network http://transitionculture.org/2011/03/25/naomi-klein-in-totnes-the-movie/