Angela King (born 27 June 1944) co-founded

Common Ground Common Ground may refer to: Books and periodicals * ''Common Ground'' (Lukas book), by J. Anthony Lukas * ''Common Ground'' (magazine), a literary magazine published quarterly between 1941 and 1949 * ''Common Ground'' (memoir), by Canadian po ...

, a British organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with

Sue Clifford Susan Merlyn Clifford MBE (born 16 April 1944) co-founded Common Ground, a British organisation which campaigns to link nature with culture and the positive investment people can make in their own localities, with Angela King in 1983. She has wo ...

in 1983. She was

Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 73 countries. The organization was founded in 1969 in San Francisco by David Brower, Donald Aitken and Gary Soucie after Brower's split wi ...

's first Wildlife Campaigner for England. She went on to be consultant to the

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until Common Ground was founded in 1982/3. Sue Clifford and Angela King have been at the forefront of cultural campaigning in the environmental movement and environmental awareness raising in the arts since they founded Common Ground in 1982/3 with

Roger Deakin Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 – 19 August 2006) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. He was a co-founder and trustee of Common Ground, the arts, culture and environment organisation. ''Waterlog'', the o ...

. With Clifford, she has written and edited a variety of books to help people be more expressive about and be more active within their own locality. She is co-author of ''England in Particular'' ‘a celebration of the commonplace, the local, the vernacular and the distinctive’.

Books

* ''Trees Rivers and Fields'' (2001) * ''England in Particular'' (2006) * ''The Apple Source Book'' (2007) * ''Community Orchards Handbook'' (2011)

References

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