Environment

Two individuals smiling at the camera, standing close together. One is wearing a 'Bristol Cable' branded T-shirt and the other a plain green T-shirt. The text 'PEOPLE JUST DO SOMETHING' is displayed across the front. In the background is a grainy image of high-rise buildings.

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.

Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins Priyanka Raval
Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and Priyanka Raval

Photography

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Photo essay: Kitchen Table Photo Club

Esther May Campbell and Chiz Williams

Features

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

Alex Turner
Alex Turner
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Features

Are the Greens going to save Yew Tree Farm?

Yew Tree Farm, one of Bristol’s most important wildlife sites, remains under threat from private and council development. But now the Greens say they don't have the power to deliver on their commitment to protect it.

Nick Scott
Nick Scott
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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

Features

St Paul’s residents call for action on ‘upsetting and depressing’ fly‑tipping in their neighbourhood

After years of what they say is disproportionate dumping in their area, and too little action to find lasting solutions, a group of BS2 residents are taking their concerns to the doorstep of City Hall.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Reports

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‘This is long overdue’: campaigning high-rise residents promised action to improve their homes

After years of living in crumbling, leaking housing, and putting pressure on the council to take action, people in neglected blocks of flats at St Jude's hope change is finally coming.

Alex Turner
Alex Turner

Features

‘Hypocritical and unacceptable’: Leading climate academics call out Bristol Uni for accepting fossil fuel funding

Bristol University is an institution famed for its world-leading climate research. But over recent years it’s taken £3m from oil, gas and mining companies.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell

Features

A bearded man holds a small green shoot on an allotment site

‘You needed young people’: how one man nurtured a community on an east Bristol allotment site

Tenants of Bristol’s sought-after allotments are pushing back hard on council proposals to hike fees. But back in the 1980s, plots in Eastville at Royate Hill were unloved and at risk – until Mike Feingold took custody of the land.

Michal Grant Naz Mahmoudzadeh
Michal Grant and Naz Mahmoudzadeh

Reports

Local experts condemn Sunak’s draughty homes U-turn as likely to cost lives

Last week, the government announced it would not be raising the minimum energy efficiency standards of privately rented properties – which will leave thousands of renters living in cold homes.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Future of Cities

Bristol’s flood defences are being pushed to their limit. What is the city’s long-term plan, and will it be enough?

The council is searching for an extra £100 million to fund future flood defences to protect low-lying areas of the city. While residents call for greater action, the Cable looks across the North Sea to Rotterdam for inspiration.

Billy Stockwell
Billy Stockwell
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