Derek Wall 'Why I joined the Green Party'

My first encounter with green politics was back in 1979 when I was 14. I was interested in politics and the environment and it happened that my next-door neighbors were hosting an Ecology Party meeting – they were wardens of the Almshouse in the small Wiltshire town of Corsham, where I lived. I went along. It was heady stuff. The schoolroom of the Almshouse contained a pulpit from which Patrick