Past WG Updates

OPT UP Celebration

Watertown Electricity Choice “Opt Up to 100% Green” Door Hanger Campaign at 80% distribution; June 20, 2021 WEC Promotions Event a Success Volunteers are hitting the streets of Watertown to urge residents and small businesses […]

Past WG Updates

GETTING TO NET ZERO

Watertown is embarking on the design of its Climate Action Plan. In 2019 the Town Council adopted a resolution embodying ambitious net zero goals for both municipal and non-municipal sectors and calling for a Climate […]

Native plants for DPW Pollinator Garden
Past WG Updates

New Pollinator Garden at Watertown DPW

On a beautiful Saturday morning, May 15, Pam Phillips and other volunteers from Friends of Bees came to the Watertown Department of Public Works to help install a new pollinator garden. Bob DeRico and his […]

Past WG Updates

Online Plant Sales for Bee-Safe Flowers

The food we eat depends on bees to pollinate the plants – and bees in turn depend on flowers for their food. Bees are especially threatened by a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. When these […]

Past WG Updates

WFCC talks at town trash meeting!

On April 8, Councillor Piccirilli chaired a meeting with the DPW to discuss recycling efforts in Watertown. The town’s contract with Republic haulers ends June 30, 2022, which gives us time to look at both […]

Past WG Updates

WFCC- Climate Impact of New Development in Watertown

Members of WFCC have begun to monitor the climate impact of the many new buildings being planned for Watertown. In March, we attended a presentation on the development of the Watertown Arsenal complex by Alexandria […]

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Recommendations for Pollinator Gardens

As spring is drawing swiftly near, Friends of Bees invites to you plant or enhance your pollinator garden. Pollinators need native flowers that will support a variety of native bees. Pollinators also need habitat to […]