Earlier this year, I was honoured to see Year 9 students from St Mary’s and St John’s Church of England school in Barnet (SMSJ) receive certificates and prizes for a raft of innovative ideas for planet-friendly homes that included solar and hydroelectric power, heat pumps, and waste management. The students had just completed ‘Architecture and Sustainability – looking to the future’, an innovative schools programme designed to engage with future generations in planning the environmentally friendly homes and towns of their own future.