Join Orillia’s Youth and March for the Earth – April 22nd.
Sustainable Orillia’s Youth Council are calling on all students from across the area to join them on Monday, April 22nd …. For a March for the Earth. You are all encouraged to bring along your signs and rally, starting at 4:00 p.m. in the courtyard at Orillia’s Public Library. From there the assembled group will […]
Sustainable Spokes – Healthy Folks (The 2024 Orillia/Simcoe County Bike Challenge)
We’re back … after a successful launch in 2023, we are working once again with partners from the Simcoe Muskoka Health Unit and local bike shops in Simcoe County; to ride into spring of 2024 with an expanded bike challenge for cyclists from across Orillia and Simcoe County. The objective is to encourage people to […]
An Earth Day Message from Sustainable Orillia Vice President, Dave VanAlstyne
We are fast approaching an important date on our calendar, Earth Day, April 22nd! Created in 1970, this day serves as an important yearly reminder that we have a responsibility to conserve and protect the environment we live in. According to https://www.earthday.org, the Earth Day movement inspires millions of people in 192 countries to take actions […]
Climate Change is In the News Today and Everyday! (Dateline: April 2, 2024)
Have you noticed? Climate Change and Environmental News have become a mainstay across all of our media – newspapers, social media platforms, broadcast news, podcasts and so on. Awareness is on the rise – but so are misinformation and politicising. Like many of the key issues of the day – there are divergent, often passionately […]
Invasive Species – Be Gone!
The 4th annual Invasive Species Action Week is scheduled for May 12th to May 18th this year. Coordinated by the Canadian Council on Invasive Species (CCIS), the week is dedicated to taking action on the serious threat posed by invasive species. Species that are quietly encroaching on our natural environment coast to coast to coast. […]
109 year old Orillia home now ready for the future
When Danny Borzellino bought the former Grant family home at the intersection of Laclie St. and Brant Avenue in 2022, he knew he was buying a piece of Orillia history. The house was originally the home of Lewis and Daisy Grant who moved from England to Toronto in the early 1900s. In 1909, the Grants […]
ANNOUNCING THE 2024 SUSTAINABLE ORILLIA STUDENT ART CONTEST!
Following on the success of the 2023 Sustainable Orillia (SO) Student Art Contest, Biodiversity: It’s All Around You, SO is pleased to announce its 2024 contest based on the theme, Ontario Species Need Your Help! The contest will run from March 1st until May 31st, 2024. Sustainable Orillia is also pleased to announce that three […]
A Glimpse into ECO Impact 2024: Shaping Sustainable Futures
— by Jocelyn Trudell, Sustainable Orillia Intern. My journey into the realm of sustainability took an extraordinary turn with an opportunity facilitated by ECO Canada’s Science and Horizons Program, funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada. As an intern with Sustainable Orillia, I found myself delving deeper into environmental stewardship, seeking to make tangible contributions […]
Sustainable Orillia (SO) Welcomes Fresh Faces at Volunteer Event.
On Sunday Feb. 11th, close to fifty concerned citizens gathered at the Orillia Museum of Art History, to share, learn and commit to their roles as part of our community’s sustainability movement. The first ever, SO Connects event. Introduced by President, Stan Mathewson, the ‘SO Connects’ event reviewed highlights of SO’s history over the past […]
Local experts weigh in on heat pumps
Many Orillians are seeing heat pumps in their future, if not already in their homes. Local providers of heating and air conditioning systems are seeing an increase in the number of their installations. “There isn’t a week goes by when we’re not installing heat pumps,” says Dan LeBlanc, owner of Simcoe-Muskoka Home Comfort. “Two years […]