Putting the Sun to Work in the Sunshine City – A Solar Story!
Electrification is underway in Orillia! There’s a movement underway. Everyone and everything is going electric! We’re moving from fossil fuels to a more sustainable, electric-powered future. That transition is called […]
Jane’s Walk – Orillia’s Urban Walk Series Continues…
Sustainable Orillia and OPPI (Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI)will join to present another engaging walk-and-learn opportunity in Orillia on Saturday May 27 at both 10 am and 2 pm. Each […]
Biodiversity: It’s All Around Us!
Building on the success of last year’s art competition, Sustainable Orillia has launched, what promises to become an annual event – our 2023 art contest. This year students from local […]
Earth Day Clean-up – Join Us on Saturday, April 22nd
Organized by our good friends at Green Orillia – this is an opportunity to commemorate Earth Day with fresh air, friends and neighbours as part of their clean-up campaign. […]
Big Move #3 in Action – St. Paul’s Retrofit Tours
Come on down and see first-hand how St. Paul’s Community Centre is making important moves towards their net-zero goal, while saving money. Several free and friendly ‘Retrofit Tours’ are planned […]
Orillia’s Climate Future: Year Two – just Twenty-Seven to Go!
As many of you know – our community climate change action plan, Orillia’s Climate Future, has a long-term goal to reduce Orillia’s carbon emissions down to net-zero by 2050. The […]
A New Lens on Carbon – From Emissions to Offsets
You won’t want to miss this series of public workshops. Hosted by Sustainable Orillia, this three-part series focuses on ‘carbon’… what it is, how it is affecting our lives and […]
Join Us, Learn the Full Story on Carbons – From Emissions to Offsets
Carbon, carbon, and more carbon! Despite what we often hear, CO2, or carbon dioxide, isn’t all bad! We just have too much of it in our atmosphere and our oceans! […]
Under the Sky We Make (Part 2) Personal Tips from the Author
A recent Sustainable Orillia review of Kimberly Nicholas’s book, Under the Sky We Make: How to be Human in a Warming World (2021) focussed on the personal story that emerged […]
Under the Sky We Make, Part 1: (A Review)
Some climate deniers angrily ask that environmentalists follow their own advice and reduce their own emissions before telling everyone else what to do. Kimberley Nicholas, the author of Under the […]