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
- December 2025: Transition Sooke Seasonal Mixer Shared Sorrows and Successes, District of Sooke Official Community passes Plan 4-3, The Rain Gauge #29: The CRD Needs a Rural Water Commission, Musings on Private Property Rights and Trees, CASA Garden Planning its 2026 Season, A Tiny Home Community Here in Sooke?: Read the newsletter here.
- November 2025: Sooke OCP, How Do We Move forward as a Community, A Merry, Waste-less Holiday Season, The Raine Gauge#28: Shouldn’t We Be Protecting Non-Piped Water Too?: Read the newsletter here.
- October 2025: Secret Lives of Trees, Saving a Local Treasure: Eagle Bluffs Forest, The fate of the OCP in Sooke, The Rain Gauge #26: Tipping Points: Read the newsletter here.
- September 2025: Transition Sooke endorsed and attended the Draw the Line Rally, Truth and Reconciliation Day in Sooke, Sooke’s new OCP reaches completion, Should US Companies Lease Crown Land along BC’s Coast? and The Rain Gauge #25: Eradicating the Never-ending Broom Bloom: Read the newsletter here.
- July 2025: The Rain Gauge #24: The Story of CRD “City” Water, Can You Help Build Transition Sooke?, Make your Voice Heard in the World, Pension Investment Funds and Climate Action, Next Repair Café: Read the newsletter here.
- June 2025: Take a Bag Leave a Bag, The Food Security Group is busy growing, Musings at the Start of Fire Season, Earth’s Atmosphere Has More CO2 than It’s Had in Millions of Years, The Rain Gauge #23: Water Makes the Earth Move: Read the newsletter here.
- Archive of previous newsletters

We don’t charge for membership but donations will be gratefully accepted! Information on how to donate here.

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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
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