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Learn to improve your gardens, lawns, and trees while minimizing your home's waste!  Composting is a great way to improve your soil and ensure that anything that you grow can be bountiful as well as organic.  This course will show you how to select the right compost bin, choose the best location, choose the right mix of waste to be composted, and maintain and harvest your compost in order to be able to use it in your gardens or even on your lawn.  In addition, we will look at the use of…See More

This March 21st, we are extremely fortunately to have Richard Heinberg in Toronto, live at the University of Toronto.  Richard's talk will be on:SNAKE OIL: How the Petroleum Industry’s Misleading Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future Oil, coal, and natural gas are finite and depleting, while burning them changes Earth’s climate and compromises our future, so you might think that curtailing their use would be simple common sense. But there are major players in the energy debate that want to…See More

Please join us for a worm composter workshop where you will learn and build your own worm composter that you can take home at the end of the course.Beyond buying local food, part of food security and sustainability is to acquire all the required growing materials, including fertilizer, soil and seed, locally. According to sustainabletable.org, as much as forty percent of energy used in the food system goes towards the production of artificial fertilizers and pesticides. And according to the…See More

Time is running out to reverse the devastating effects of climate change. At the same time, our addiction to fossil fuel is becoming increasingly costly to satisfy as supply limitations manifest.  We must plan for more sustainable Toronto communities - NOW!Citizens of Toronto can act as a community to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.  More importantly, we can have fun and eat cake doing it.Transition Toronto's Energy Descent Action Theatre is a theatre-based community event where we learn…See More

This session will look at health from a unique perspective. We will discuss the future of health care in our current system and in transition scenarios, and what to do to achieve and maintain Peak Health now and in the future.Join Chris Upwood in this interactive presentation to discuss, discover and debate topics such as:What will our health care system look like in the future?What makes us sick/die?What will make us sick/die in the future?What is the best approach to exercise and diet and…See More

 Transition Toronto (TTo) and the Institute for Resource-Based Economy (IRBE) present Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’ about the coming changes in our economy, environment and energy. The course provides information on why major change is inevitable, what will be possible and impossible in the future, and what we can do about it.  This session is the final of 4 sessions. In this session we will learn about alternatives to the systemic problems we've seen in the first 3 sessions and…See More

Transition Toronto (TTo) and the Institute for Resource-Based Economy (IRBE) present Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’ about the coming changes in our economy, environment and energy. The course provides information on why major change is inevitable, what will be possible and impossible in the future, and what we can do about it.  This session is the third of 4 sessions. It continues to point out the nature of our environmental problems and offers some solutions to the economic, energy, and…See More

Transition Toronto (TTo) and the Institute for Resource-Based Economy (IRBE) present Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’ about the coming changes in our economy, environment and energy. The course provides information on why major change is inevitable, what will be possible and impossible in the future, and what we can do about it. This session is the second of 4 sessions.  It covers energy, the environment, and the interplay between the two.    The remaining sessions (held on April 3rd, April…See More

Transition Toronto (TTo) and the Institute for Resource-Based Economy (IRBE) present Chris Martenson’s ‘Crash Course’ about the coming changes in our economy, environment and energy.  The course provides information on why major change is inevitable, what will be possible and impossible in the future, and what we can do about it. This first session covers our current economic realities and paradoxes, and discusses the difference between growth and prosperity.  From this, we will see the…See More

A screening of the End of Suburbia to kick off the Transition Toronto Film Contest (http://bit.ly/knTPVi) and film workshops (http://bit.ly/m20bBd), with a talk by the film-maker, Greg Greene. As we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as…See More

TRANSITION TORONTO invites you to an All Members & Public MeetingAs requested by our members in our recent survey:See a detailed presentation on what the Transition Towns social movement is aboutLearn how Transition Toronto (TTo) approaches transitioning our large cityHear some ‘testimonials’ from active members and how their Transition group got started (or the challenges they face trying to)We will include time for a Q&A and a short Open Space group work component. Bring a friend or…See More