Anna Watson, winner of the Green Briton of the Year award sponsored by Ecotricity, on her ‘Run on Sun’ campaign to get solar panels into schools
Anna Watson’s Run on Sun campaign lets schools across the UK harness the clean, renewable energy beaming down on their roofs. “Every school should be able to go solar if they want to,” she says. “Children understand these issues so easily, and they say: ‘Of course we need to look after our environment.’”
In fact it was her own biology teacher’s lessons on climate change that inspired Watson to join Greenpeace as a teenager, starting a lifetime of campaigning. She then became involved in action against genetically modified food and other green issues while studying ecology at university in Lancaster.