Lucy Siegle

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• Sustainability
• TV/Radio Presenter
• Women

LUCY SIEGLE is a journalist, author and presenter who specialises in ecological and ethical lifestyle matters. Lucy Siegle is an experienced host and speaker.  She writes a weekly ethical living column for the Observer and is author of Green Living in the Urban Jungle and co-author of A Good Life.

Environment and Green Issues

Lucy offers  a unique and beguiling perspective on environmental and green issues. She is a humorous, highly informed and vibrant speaker, able to demystify green and environmental issues and make them relevant and appealing to small and large audiences alike. A young, fashionable woman, she is world’s away from the middle aged, almost exclusively male, apocalypse preaching environmentalist of old. She subscribes to Ghandi’s view that we should ‘be the change you want to see in the world’.

Individual action not only counts but is a vital catalyst to large scale change. She is equally at home explaining how people can use a wormery (and making them less afraid of nature), why green is the new black in fashion terms, or chairing a panel of top scientists, opinion formers and politicians. She is known as a provocative and fearless panellist and chair, and her opinions are underscored by years of serious research and reporting. She retains a wry sense of humour whatever the prognosis!

CURRENT AND RECENT TELEVISION

• The One Show, BBC1 7pm
  In July 2007 Lucy joined the core reporting team of 14 well known faces when the show fronted by Adrian Chiles and Mylene Klass was relaunched. Her initial series, Waste Watchers generated hundreds of viewer responses and spearheaded a nationwide campaign. She also appears frequently in studio discussions &contributes live outside broadcasts from around the UK.
• Live Earth, June 2007 Appeared live with Graham Norton and Wayne Hemmingway talking on celebs and being green.
• BBC2 Guilt Trip, autumn schedule - In this groundbreaking show that mixes factual with entertainment, Lucy sends three members of the public on the trip of a lifetime that will change their perception of consumer goods forever.
• The Clothes Show, UK Style - Lucy has featured in every series of the revamped Clothes Show, UK Style as a stylish, ethically dressed planet lover and astute commentator on the fashion industry and what it needs to do to change.
• Richard and Judy, C4 Filmed well received four part eco series with comedien, Rowland Rivron whom she put on a carbon diet. Also in studio guest.

NEWSPAPERS AND FEATURES:

• Columnist and feature writer, the Observer 2005 to present - Green expert,
• Marie Claire 2006 to present
• Contributes to the Evening Standard, New Statesman, Elle, Grazia, Marie Claire, Guardian, Vogue, Junior Parenting Magazine, New Consumer, the London Magazine.

Lucy’s green life is frequently catalogued and profiles, most recently in The Evening Standard 15 August, 2007. She has also been interviewed for Current TV (Al Gore’s eco web TV).

Conferences

Lucy Siegle recently facilitated the JobCentre Plus conference and moderated two conferences for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where she hosted a Q&A session and gave the final summery speech in front of predominantly European audience.  This included Ministers from the Environment, Foreign Affairs, and Health departments and from Chemical Industries & Associates. Lucy traveled to Nigeria for the Environmental Performance Seminar where she gave a keynote speech and recently hosted the Women in Ethical Business Awards for Triodos Bank.

Corporate

• Women in Ethical Business Awards – 2006, Host
• Environmental Performance Seminar – Nigeria, 2006, Speaker
• JobCentre Plus Age Diversity Conference – 2005, Host
• London Design Week – 2005, Panelist
• London Sustainability Festival – 2005, Speaker
• The Ethical Consumers – 2005, Speaker at the Hay Festival
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – “Working Together, Implementing the Compact Code on Funding and Procurement within DEFRA”, 2005, Facilitator
• Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - “Workshop for Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management”, 2005, Facilitator
• Low Impact Living – 2004, Speaker
• Land Securities Trillium Environmental Conference – 2002, Host and Speaker 

Radio

• You and Yours – 2005, BBC Radio 4, Interviewee 
• The Jono Coleman Show - BBC Radio London, 2005, Guest
• The Simon Mayo Show - Radio 5 Live, 2004, Ethical consumerism debate.
• BBC Birmingham & BBC Scotland, London Live - Book publicity radio interviews

Journalism

• Grazia Magazine – 2005, Features Writer
• ELLE Magazine – 2005, Environmental Columnist
• The Observer Magazine – 2004-Ongoing, Weekly Ethical Living column
• Observer Food Monthly – 2004 Guide to Organic Food
• Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair Campaign – 2004, Cover Story
• OM Green Goddess – 2004, Cover Story
• OM, The Eco Issue – 2003, Associate Editor

Literary

• A Good Life –Transworld /The Guardian, 2005, Co-author
• Recycle - The Essential Guide
• Green Living In the Urban Jungle - Green Books Ltd, 2001, Author 

To Die For is Lucy’s major new book on the fashion industry & how fashion can become ethical

Awards:

British Press Awards, shortlisted Specialist writer of the year for Ethical Living column, the Observer.
IVCA Gold Award, Samaritans work/life balance CD ROM. Presenter.

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