Community • Resilience • Climate
Transforming to a just, sustainable society
Transition Sooke is a citizen-based, volunteer, public-interest group focused on co-creating a sustainable, resilient and secure community that meets the challenges of the climate emergency in the Sooke region.
For more information on Transition Sooke, visit here.
Latest News
- March 2024: How, Then, Shall We Live Event Raises Deep Issues, Exciting Times at the Sustainable Food Security and Agriculture Action Group, Transition Sooke AGM and an endangered Sitka Spruce in Sooke: Read the newsletter here.
- March 3, 2024, 1 – 5 pm Join us for a public forum titled: How, Then, Shall We Live: Deepening our connections with a changing Earth, held downstairs at the Sooke Community Hall. For more information contact us or visit the events page.
- February 2024: Explore Human Kinship with Nature, Forum “How The, Shall We Live”, Repair Café, Big Solar Farm coming to our Region? and The Rain Gauge: Review: Read the newsletter here.
- January 2024: Zero Waste Sooke Yarn Swap, Community Garden site assessments begin, Where is Ella Stream, “How, Then, Shall We Live? Practising Kinship and Taking the Long View Amidst the Climate Crisis”: Transition Sooke event in March: Read the newsletter here.
- December 2023: Zero Waste Sooke’s Seasonal Decorations Swap, Transition Sooke needs your help, Friends of Sooke Parks Society planted nine new trees, The Rain Gauge: Development and good climate news: Read the newsletter here.
- Two Transition Sooke Working Groups have received District of Sooke Community Climate Action Seed Funding grants — $2,500 for Zero Waste Sooke’s Swaps and Repair Cafés and $7,000 (2023-24) for a Sooke Community Garden. Read the press release here.
- Archive of previous newsletters
We don’t charge for membership but donations will be gratefully accepted! Information on how to donate here.
Action Groups
- Climate Emergency – A range of actions to address climate change in the Sooke community
- Zero Waste Sooke – Citizen’s initiative to eliminate all forms of waste in the community
- Pesticide Education Group – Educating the community on pesticides and their alternatives
- Sustainable Food Security and Agriculture