I’ve always liked animals and nature but I didn’t really consider myself an environmentalist until I went to uni and went veggie, which started as a moral concern but became environmental. It sounds like a cliche, but it was David Attenborough’s The Blue Planet that really spurred me on: I made a petition on Change.org about plastic cutlery and it got 150,000 signatures, which inspired me to do my master’s in environment, politics and society at UCL.
I’m a project coordinator at an environmental charity called Hubbub. We try to inspire greener ways of living: our motto is anyone can be an environmentalist whether they know it or not. There’s a perception of environmentalists as quite finger-waggy, but Hubbub is all about making funny, easily accessible campaigns that usually have a cost-saving element to them, or a mental and physical health benefit.
