Earth Day 2022 – What is your personal contribution? How can you make a difference?
This year’s Earth Day theme is Invest in our planet: What will you do? A universal answer to “What will you do?” is to take steps to divest from fossil […]
Sustainable Orillia’s 2021 Annual Report
In case you missed it… here’s Sustainable Orillia’s 2021 Annual Report!
Map to Farm to Table!
Do you love really good food? Are you sure you know all the great places to buy the freshest, locally produced food for you and your family? Think an updated […]
Bird Friendly Orillia
According to Nature Canada, a Bird Friendly City is a community where key threats to birds are effectively minimised. Although we have to accept that the estimated three billion birds […]
Ontario Votes, June 2, 2022 – How will you use your vote?
As readers know, Sustainable Orillia has now, for over three years, been sharing tips and ideas on how to make our lives more sustainable here in Orillia (and elsewhere, too, […]
Suggested Reading and Viewing
Hi there – here are some assorted articles and a video that you may find both informative and interesting. If so, we’d love to hear from you with your suggested […]
Measure what Matters!
Did you know that Orillia recently joined Toronto, Vancouver, Peterborough, Kingston and many other large and small Canadian cities in National Climate League annual standards reporting? Since 2018, the National […]
Driving Community Sustainability through Orillia’s New Official Plan
You are likely aware that, through the current Municipal Comprehensive Review (MCR), Orillia has taken its first steps towards a new Orillia Official Plan that may involve expanding the city […]
Bravo Orillia: Change over to Clear Bagging Program going well
By now all Orillia households and businesses have experienced at least one garbage collection cycle since the ‘clear bagging’ bylaw was introduced February 7, 2020, and the word from the […]
Welcome, Jacobi Clarke
A Big Welcome to new Sustainable Orillia member, Jacobi Clarke! Jacobi Clarke recently agreed to join the Goods and Services Sector of Sustainable Orillia as a co-chair with Audrey Bayens. […]