Our River – The Stour: Did You Know?

Our River – The Stour: Did You Know?

In 2025, our members took part twice in The Great UK Water Blitz. This is a national campaign to sample fresh waters twice a year, all across the UK, and record the results in a publicly accessible map.  These events are helping to build a national picture of...
Talking Heat Pumps

Talking Heat Pumps

On 6 November, we had a fascinating talk on Heat Pumps by Bean Beanland of the Heat Pump Federation. Bean described how heat pumps are 3-4 times as efficient as gas for heating, because they take warmth from the world around and ‘concentrate’ it to warm our homes....
Electric Buses for Kinver

Electric Buses for Kinver

Have you noticed our lovely new electric buses?  Diamond Bus’s latest vehicles are fully electrically powered and produce no carbon emissions or exhaust fumes from the tailpipe.  So bus journeys are even greener. That’s sustainable travel!  The buses have been...
Electric Buses for Kinver

Kinver bus services: summary

Travelling by bus is a sustainable option which prevents lots of short car journeys. While our local bus service is somewhat limited in its scheduling, we are lucky to have it and would love more people to use it to allow it to continue. One of the major things which...