The coronation of King Charles delivers a new age of environmental enlightenment. As our Head of State, the natural environment has never had such powerful representation. For over 50 years His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales, had been an outspoken campaigner for the environment including this, his November 2015

by Emmie Williamson, Clinical Psychologist; Green Party parliamentary candidate for South Northants; Co-Coordinator of West Northants Green Party; Coordinator of Flore Climate Group. I’ve really enjoyed reading the other contributions in this space, and how the actions range from large and broad to tiny and specific. So I thought

By Ella Mansfield, who has volunteered and worked in the charity sector for 10 years.  Ella is a new member to CA-WN but has been on a personal sustainability journey for 3 years. I started making sustainable changes about 3 years ago during the pandemic, like everyone else I all

By Alice Whitehead, the founder and chair of Tree Charter community group Save Our Street Trees and communications officer for organic gardening charity Garden Organic I love the idea that three things can change the world. It's easy to feel climate change is too big to tackle as

by Clare Topping, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Northampton General Hospital As well as being Energy and Sustainability Manager at NGH, a role she has held for 10 years, Clare is also the co-ordinator for Beds and Northants for the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey.  She has lived in Daventry for over

by Martin Wilson, Sustainability Manager, West Northamptonshire Council I wasn’t sure whether to include becoming a vegan as one of my choices because it can look like quite a daunting change to make, especially if your diet includes a lot of meat-based meals. The best advice I could give

by Ken Ritchie, former Daventry District Councillor About 40 years ago I was persuaded to join SERA, the environmental campaign within the Labour Party. I paid my money, but was a fairly passive supporter until about 10 years ago when the world started to wake up to the speed of

by Orianne Neyroud GCSE student and CA-WN steering group member We have all made changes in a bid to be more environmentally friendly. Here I will share three of those little things I have done to lessen my impact. Recently my family and I became flexitarian. Flexitarianism is a vegetarian