Welcome to Sustainable Orillia’s Three New Directors
Sustainable Orillia adds to its board of directors Sustainable Orillia welcomed three local leaders to its board of directors at its recent Annual General Meeting. All are committed to doing […]
Leading Today for Tomorrow – Meet Blythe Wieclawek
Leading Today for Tomorrow – Meet Blythe Wieclawek. When it comes to Climate Change, today’s youth is demonstrating true strategic capacity in the pursuit of long-term, sustainable goals, while ensuring […]
Renewal in a Post-COVID World. A Message from our President
Renewal in a Post- COVID World As we move to mass vaccination and the prospect of herd immunity, we must now think about what we want a Post-COVID world to […]
Tip of the Week – Plant Local – Include Native Plantings in your Gardening Plans
Spring 2021 … a time of renewal that has happily been gentler and earlier. The season always brings a burst of energy, heightened this year by months of sequestering from […]
CBC | What on Earth?
This is the CBC’s weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where they highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. This Week: •Canada is touting […]
Call for Artists
Artistic Call Out Applications Accepted for theme of “RENEWAL”$75 for successful submissions Who are we? Sustainable Orillia (SO) is a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization that aims to promote awareness and actions […]
Clean Energy Canada
Clean Energy Canada is a climate and clean energy program within the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. They work to accelerate Canada’s clean energy transition […]
Two Letters to a Child of the Future*. Which of these will you write?
Sometimes we need to personalize change in order to really understand its significance. Especially when the consequences of not taking action are far off in the future. Thus, it has […]
Spring, 2021—a time for renewal!
It’s April. As the days warm and daylight lasts longer into the evening, as the snow melts and earth reappears, as tiny shoots push up from the ground into the […]
Food Systems Responsible for a Third of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new study, published in Nature Food and conducted by researchers from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, found that food systems […]