Writer, Broadcaster and Chair of the Real Circularity Coalition
Bio
Lucy Siegle is a writer and broadcaster on nature and climate. In 2020 she became chair of the Real Circularity Coalition, an organisation that advocates for true circularity and truly circular materials and processes. Over many years she has specialised in the environmental and social footprint of the global fashion industry and is the author of To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World (4th Estate/HarperCollins) and Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again (Orion/Hachette 2019).
She exec-produced and appeared in The True Cost, the Netflix feature documentary also on the fashion industry. She co-founded the Green Carpet Challenge with Livia Firth, a mechanism for mainstreaming stories on global justice and the fashion supply chain. For 14 years she was a columnist at The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, writing on ethical living for a consumer audience and created the long running Ethical Awards dubbed the green Oscars (2005-2015)
On TV, Lucy reports for The One Show, BBC1, a prime time magazine show for a large audience. She has also presented a special edition of ITV Tonight on microplastics and human health. With the filmmaker Tom Mustill, Lucy created and cohosts So Hot Right Now, a podcast produced by Sony and Picture Zero for anyone interested in telling the story of nature and climate. She also works with Ellie Goulding on climate activism and recently founded The Palace Paddle, an endurance kayak event to raise money for Samburu Girls Foundation.