YOU have the power to help change the world!
Hendrikus van Hensbergen (Author)
Hendrikus van Hensbergen has a BSc in Zoology from the University
of Bristol, where he was awarded the Rose Bracher Memorial Prize,
and an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management from the
University of Oxford.
He is the CEO of youth environmental charity, Action for
Conservation (AFC), which he founded in 2014, whilst working for
WWF, after realising that no charities in the UK existed with the
sole purpose of engaging young people in environmental action. In a
short space of time the charity has become an influential force,
driving greater action to engage and involve young people across
the environmental sector. In 2018 Hendrikus' inspirational
leadership was recognised with a Postcode Trust Rising Star Award
and in 2019 the charity launched the world's largest youth-led
nature restoration initiative in Wales.
Robert Macfarlane (Foreword By)
Robert Macfarlane's Sunday Times- and New York Times-bestselling
books include Is a River Alive?, Underland, Landmarks, The Old
Ways, The Wild Places and Mountains of the Mind, as well as a
book-length prose-poem, Ness. His work has been translated into
more than thirty languages, won prizes around the world, and been
widely adapted for film, music, theatre, radio and dance. He has
also written operas, plays, albums, choral works, and films
including River and Mountain, both narrated by Willem Dafoe.
Macfarlane has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur
Eliasson, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the
internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art, The
Lost Words and The Lost Spells. In 2017, the American Academy of
Arts and Letters awarded him the E.M. Forster Prize for Literature,
and in 2023 in Toronto he was the inaugural winner of the Weston
International Award for a body of work in the field of non-fiction.
He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and is presently
working on a graphic novel re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Macfarlane and Morris's latest project, The Book of Birds, will be
published in May 2026.
An excellent down-to-earth handbook for teens and pre-teens
*Guardian*
This wonderful book is a mixture of a manifesto and an operations
manual for how to make Natural History. Every young person in the
country should be given this book: it is life affirming and
brilliantly practical. It is a roadmap for protecting the fragile
planet on which we live
*Sir Tim Smit, Founder of the Eden Project*
A really informative book for young people about how to become an
environmental activist, with lots of fun ways to take practical
action. I totally agree with the message: We all have the power to
make a difference and help the planet!
*Mya-Rose Craig (Birdgirl), environmental and climate activist*
What's so clever about this book is that it manages to combine
being practical and informative with great story telling. It's
enlightening, inspiring and empowering - a book for anyone of any
age. I'm going to give it to everyone I know!
*Kate Humble, TV presenter*
Without action, hope is fantasy. But mix the right amount of hope
with action, then double both, and you can change the world.
Hendrikus van Hensbergen shows us how to do it, starting now, in
his fine new book
*Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods and Vitamin N*
A wonderfully informative, fun and practical book that highlights
the most important fact - That small individual acts of kindness
towards our planet, will make a great difference. A great source of
inspiration
*Harry and David Rich, TV presenters*
Straight talking advice on how to identify goals and realise
them
*Evening Standard*
A treasure trove of practical advice and inspiration
*Sue Stuart-Smith, author of The Well Gardened Mind*
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