Category: Environment

How Green is Your Workplace?

How Green is Your Workplace? Our planet is in trouble. How can we reverse the crisis and create a sustainable future? No jobs on a dead planet!  How can we make a difference? There is clear evidence that whatever we do to conserve energy, recycle or reuse materials, however small our actions, they do make a […]

‘SEED THE DAY’ Bridgwater’s Very Own Vegan Fair is on 14th September

Bridgwater’s own Vegan and Eco festival’SEED THE DAY’ is making a welcome return on Saturday 14th September. This event, which has been a feature of the varied food offer in our town centre, has been going since 2019. This year the event will be in Blake Gardens.  and is free for visitors to attend between […]

Brewery Field Trees – Now it’s MURDER

Following the mindless, callous, thoughtless, but sadly not bladeless, attack on trees at Brewery Field, Town Council inspections have shown that the trees will not survive. Scott Mason, new Head of Amenities at Bridgwater Town Council which now has the brief for Parks and Open Spaces in Bridgwater, said “Unfortunately, due to the severity of […]

Brewery Field ‘Tree Mugging’

The new Brewery field has not long been opened for the public to use as a town centre park with a water feature and a stone crossing (known locally as Tarr Steps), childrens play areas, benches and crucially numerous trees. Today residents woke up to find two of the trees had been vandalised. Mindlessly. And […]

Labour Welcomes Bridgwater Gigafactory

News breaking this week suggests that finally the long awaited ‘Gigafactory’ – an electric car battery factory to be built  on the Gravity site, could bring huge investment to the Bridgwater area. Cllr Mick Lerry, Mayor of Bridgwater welcomed the news saying “Finally the Government has agreed to provide investment incentives in the Battery Plant […]