Sustainable Orillia Hosts Successful 6th EV Event, Plans for 2025 Expansion
Sustainable Orillia Celebrated the success of its 6th Electric Vehicle (EV) event, held at Centennial Park. The event brought together an impressive 18 vendors showcasing a wide array of eco-friendly […]
Introducing Sarah Patterson
Sustainable Orillia (SO) is pleased to introduce Sarah Patterson as its new President. Sarah joined the SO board in 2023 and was elected president at SO’s annual members’ meeting on June 26, […]
Sustainable Orillia is grateful to Councillor David Campbell
Councillor David Campbell’s term has come to an end as the City of Orillia’s representative and ex officio director on the Sustainable Orillia (SO) Board of Directors. SO is enormously […]
2025 Proposed SO Projects
Proposals for New SO Projects in 2025 As Sustainable Orillia (SO) looks ahead to 2025, our volunteers are excited about building on successes from recent years, such as the Electric […]
Electric Vehicle & E-Boat Show
Sustainable Orillia is excited to announce its sixth annual Electric Vehicle and E-Boat Show, set to take place on Saturday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Centennial […]
Sustainable Orillia workshop series closes with new ideas
–by Gord Ball for Sustainable Orillia Former mayor Steve Clarke welcomed area residents to the Quality Inn on Sunday at the third and final community engagement workshop hosted by Sustainable […]
Heat pumps in Orillia – revisited
In November 2023, Orillia Matters ran a story on local residents who had recently installed heat pumps in their home. (See https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/we-had-no-choice-orillia-homeowners-make-switch-to-heat-pumps-7859335) Readers were promised a follow-up story in the […]
Some thoughts on the “carbon tax”—oops! the “carbon pricing program”
Like most of you, I’ve been reading a lot of what people have been saying about “the Carbon Tax,” especially in those ads which call for us to “AXE THE […]
Spring is here. Time to get your wheels in gear — Paul Belanger, for Sustainable Orillia
As we told you last week in OrilliaMatters, Sustainable Orillia is once again working with the Simcoe-Muskoka Health Unit and local bike shops to present an expanded bike challenge from […]
Local initiatives celebrate Bike to School Week in May and Ontario Bike Month in June
Orillia, like many other cities its size, faces a common problem: too much traffic, especially during busy times and when school starts and ends. Most people use cars to get […]