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
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
When Tracy Eby returned to Canada from Taiwan, she knew she wanted to start an ecologically friendly business. The result of her desire is Buff and Shine, the residential cleaning service that was recently nominated for the Barrie Business Green
It’s a partnership in Barrie that’s making a huge difference for all of us. And it’s all about trees. Living Green Barrie, the City of Barrie, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, businesses and ordinary volunteers like you and I:
With the debate on anthropogenic ( caused by humans) climate change long since settled, it is time to move on to other questions, specifically why we are not doing more about it. Climate change denial has been relegated to a
You look sadly at the apple tree in your yard. All summer you’ve watched fruit blossom, grow, and ripen. This week it’s ready, but you haven’t time to pick it all and it’s more than you could possibly eat, anyway.
