climate

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People Just Do Something

Listen: People Just Do Something – Nicholas Beuret on disrupting the climate transition

Nicholas Buret on why a plan for the planet is no substitute for actual politics.

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Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

This image features the logo and title for Bristol Unpacked, a podcast presented by The Bristol Cable. It includes stylized illustrations of host Neil Maggs and this week's guest, Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer in yellow circles against a grey abstract background.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with Labour councillor Kirsty Tait on the Just Transition and how best to spend £20m in Hartcliffe

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Alex Turner, George Colwey and Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media

Opinion

Recent floods show once again that it’s high time to formally recognise the rights of the River Avon

Becca Blease
Becca Blease
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Features

‘Liveable neighbourhoods’ have caused uproar in east Bristol. How will they fare south of the river?

The council has started consulting on making large areas of south Bristol friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists. What do residents want – and have lessons been learned about how to communicate with them?

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
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Podcasts

Mikaela Loach: ‘We need climate justice, not just climate action’

George Colwey
George Colwey
Person speaking in a video with the headline "Tory government's disgraceful legacy of weaponising action on climate change" and a lower banner reading "GE2024: WHAT WE WANT".

General Election 2024

VIDEO: What We Want – Meaningful climate action not culture wars

Aphra Evans
Aphra Evans

Future of Cities

How ambitious and creative tree planting projects could help keep Bristol cool during heatwaves

Green infrastructure could help make Bristol more resilient to climate change, improving the lives of its residents. What can the city learn from Milan?

Neill Talbot

Features

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‘We need people to step up now’: the Bristolians working to save cricket from climate change

Cricket's past is tangled with colonialism, a key root of climate change. Now, it's the pitch sport most at risk from global heating – but a group based in Bristol are working to highlight the threats and protect its future.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Future of Cities

Illustration of solar panels feeding energy into community microgrids (credit: @laurence_ware_design)

People power: how can community electricity grids help tackle the energy crisis?

A small-scale ‘microgrid’ scheme in Lawrence Weston is helping a group of Bristol homeowners take power into their own hands – but how can we supercharge community energy projects to benefit everyone?

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

This Week in Bristol

This week in Bristol: Airport expansion granted by High Court – but campaigners vow to fight on

Expansion would see the airport increase its capacity from 10 million to 12 million passengers per year.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

This Week in Bristol

A man holding an umbrella walks through a flooded underpass entrance at Lawrence Hill roundabout

This week in Bristol:  Lawrence Hill gets a ‘Lido’

Someone changed the name of the Lawrence Hill roundabout on Google Maps this week, after more than two months of flooding.

Eliz Mizon
Eliz Mizon

Reports

A map of heat networks that will be created under Bristol's City Leap programme

Councillors sign off 20-year deal aimed at decarbonising Bristol’s energy networks

Councillors this week approved the two-decade City Leap partnership, paving the way for hundreds of millions of pounds to be invested into heat networks, retrofit and other renewable technologies in Bristol.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)
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