Bewdley Bridge Community Magazine - October 2025 /
23 of 80 Transition Bewdley Update John Rhymer - john.rhymer50@gmail.com
Monday 6th October 8:00pm. Green Drinks at Bewdley Rowing Club "The world will be saved by musicians; artistes; performers, rather than by environmentalists’ A challenging statement but maybe people are tiring of being preached at by environmental activists with messages of doom and despair? We will discuss the role that the Arts and culture can play in mending the prevailing divisions in Society and the challenges of trying to ensure a positive future for our environment, our communities and our descendants. Expect lively discussions, a range of opinions and perspectives and a supportive atmosphere. Oh, and a well-stocked bar with local beers etc.
repair to bring our communities together, reduce our impact on the planet, learn new skills and so much more. Whether you’re a repairer, community organiser, tinkerer, maker, repair business, campaigner or a fan of fixing, there are lots of ways to join in as well as bringing tems for repair at the Repair Cafe. When software updates stop coming, perfectly good hardware is being discarded, undermining our community’s e ff orts and feeding the growing mountain of e-waste. Our friends at Numlock Solutions (formerly known as The Zoo) at the top of Load Street will be around to help you if you are a ff ected by the end of support for Windows 10 for example. Coping with heatwaves! As I write this, it is raining outside and temperatures have fallen. Did we really have a series of heat-waves just a few weeks ago? Adapting to heatwaves was the theme for our Green Drinks session in August. We learnt that some heat pumps can also be used as air- conditioning units during hot weather, reducing capital costs, but still using electricity. Perhaps better to adopt passive measures such as drawing the curtains and keeping windows closed during the day and opening windows at night. Better still, external shutters or blinds on south facing windows. Longer term measures such as planting many more urban trees, designing buildings with passive stack ventilation (Kidderminster Library and Bishops Wood Centre are local examples) and learning from Mediterranean countries by having narrow streets with tall buildings and oriented to give shade in summer. We will return to this theme when we encounter inevitable heatwaves in future summers, when the very young and the elderly will be particularly vulnerable.
Saturday 18th October 10:00am – 1:00pm Bewdley Repair Café At the Wheatsheaf Rooms, 21 Load St, Bewdley DY12 2AE. (behind the Bewdley Institute). A change of location as our regular venue at St Georges Hall is in use for the Bewdley Festival. Our Repair Café session coincides with International Repair Day. Organised by The Open Repair Alliance, https://openrepair.org International Repair Day is an annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world. Every October they celebrate the power of
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