Women In Sustainability Efeca

In this episode Emily talks with Jenny Morisetti, an expert convener and activist in Dorset, about the myriad community projects promoting sustainable fashion and textiles, renewable energy, and eco-schools that she runs. They discuss her involvement in Dorset’s COP 2024 and the Defashion Dorset event, which focuses on educating the community about local fibre growers, cloth makers and a local clothing culture, as well as the work she does as a Retrofit Adviser for traditional buildings using renewable energy.


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Ditte Lysgaard Vind is a renowned circular economy and design expert and practitioner, based in Denmark. Ditte is the founder of The Circular Way, the Chairwoman of the Danish Design Council and a member of the executive board of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation as well as the global SDG innovation lab UNLEASH. She most recently published Danish Design Heritage and Global Sustainability, a book that showcases practical examples taken from Danish designs of how design can help build a regenerative society. In this episode, you will hear Ditte explain how we need to design the world of tomorrow with the waste of today, while designing a world without waste.


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Join us for our International Women’s Day podcast! Efeca team members Rose McCulloch and Christina Wood interview the two female leads of our company - Emily Fripp, our Director and Founder, and Lucy Cullinane, our Director of Operations, about how it all began for Efeca 15 years ago, how we foster inclusion in our company culture, and where our work is headed. Emily and Lucy share some stories from their exciting careers and talk about women in the sustainability field who have inspired their work.


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Emer Fardy is the Head of Sustainability and Human Rights at Hilton Food Group, a London stock exchange listed food packaging company, specialising in the processing of protein products across meat, seafood, vegan and vegetarian categories. In this episode, Emer shares her cross-supply chain perspective and her passion for improving sustainability in livestock supply chains, including topics such as antibiotic reduction, animal welfare and environmental impacts.


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Daphna Nissenbaum is the founder and CEO of TIPA, a global compostable packaging company providing innovative solutions for the fashion and food industries, and a globally recognized pioneer and female entrepreneur in the sustainable solutions space. Daphna spoke at the World Economic Forum in 2020, and has received multiple awards for her work, including being named as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2019. In this episode you will learn about sustainable packaging innovations, and Daphna’s journey to found one of the leading companies working against plastic waste.


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In this episode, Emily speaks with Dr. Ines Smyth who has an MSc and PhD in Social Anthropology. With 10 years of experience working as a University Lecturer and Researcher, she has an extensive publication list, and has also been the Senior Gender Advisor in Oxfam Great Britain, and the Senior Gender Expert at the Asian Development Bank. She is now a Gender and Women Rights consultant with over 30 years of professional experience in the fields of gender equality, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and gender mainstreaming, around the world, especially in East Asia.


In particular, Dr Smyth has over 10 years of practical experience in Myanmar, working on the full gamut of issues and methodologies pertaining to gender equality and social inclusion in the context of a country prone to ecological and other crises.


Since engaging in consultancy work, she has engaged in the identification, design and formulation of standalone women’s rights programs and gender mainstreaming strategies in development and humanitarian settings. She has also used intersectional research for the purpose of influencing governments and other development actors on issues of women’s access to natural and other resources, food security, livelihood and governance. She has prioritised collaboration with individuals and civil society organisations, including Women's Rights Organisations, in developing and delivering innovative capacity-enhancing curricula on gender and women's transformative feminist leadership, gender mainstreaming in humanitarian settings, gender and Disaster Risk Reduction, safeguarding and GBV, gender and localisation, feminist MEAL, and engaging men.


To her private and professional life she has brought a commitment to gender and social justice, which translates into feminist activism as well as, in the last 4 years, in active engagement with Extinction Rebellion, for a transition to a just and fossil fuel free society.


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