This month’s GreenScreen, Hometown Habitat, is about the importance of native plants, biodiversity, and preserving nature’s beauty. Entomologist Dr. Douglas Tallamy provides the narrative thread that challenges the notion that humans are here and nature is someplace else. His goal is
Our next GreenScreen will be Hometown Habitat: Stories of Bringing Nature Home, a 90-minute environmental, education documentary focused on showing how and why native plants are critical to the survival and vitality of local ecosystems. The event will be held at the Barrie Uptown
Our monthly film series is on the fourth Thursday of every month, 7 pm at Uptown Theatre, 55 Dunlop St W. Events will be posted on EventBrite and our Facebook page. Admission is $5 – register through EventBrite or pay
Living Green Barrie will be hosting a screening of SustainableJoes – The Time Is Now, followed by a Q & A with the filmmaker and founder of Sustainable Joes, Stephen Szucs. The event will be held at the Barrie Uptown Theatre
Muskoka Watershed Council is hosting the 2018 Summit on the Environment! This year’s theme is Restoring our Relationship with the Natural World. The Summit will aim to understand and promote a variety of perspectives to examine how to bring ethics into our
Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees is the first film of 2018 in our Green Screen series. This Thursday at Uptown Theatre, join us for a film screening and conversation about the importance of the world’s forests.
Trying to live a simpler life is a bit like swimming upstream in mainstream society, with powerful messages flowing against us. But there are lots of sources of inspiration for those of us striving for a simpler or minimalist lifestyle. Today I’ll highlight one blog that I have found worthwhile, with more to come in the near future.
Hydropower has an enviable reputation of being clean, green, and renewable. This was probably true of the earliest installations which ground flour, sawed wood, crushed various ores and treated woolen cloth (fulling mills). The earliest hydroelectric installations were “run-of-the-river”. They
As Barrie slowly increases waste diversion, with measures like every-other-week trash collection, residents must keep up. And with spring weather finally approaching, composting resumes. In fact, I know at least 4 ways to compost. First is the traditional backyard method. Growing
On Oct. 5, 2013 LG was happy to help out at TD’s Friends of the Environment tree planting at Lover’s Creek in Barrie. Dozens and dozens of energetic volunteers of all ages, from the very young, to the young at
