Book of Leaves Podcast
1) Keeping Packaging in Circulation - Green Bubble
Peter Gregory is the founder of Green Bubble, a business that saves bubble wrap and other packaging waste from going straight to the bin after use. He's now branched out other forms of waste like card...Show More
2) Alternatives to Animal Testing, & A Vegan Christmas - Suzanne Martin
Suzanne Martin is an animal rights activist and vegan who set up SAFRI, a group campaigning to end animal testing in Ireland. She is also a member of NARA so we decided to have a chat about their rece...Show More
3) Healing from Colonialism via Food & Culture - Rupa Marya
Rupa Marya is a physician, musician and writer. Her work mainly centres around food as medicine and doing away with colonial captilalist practices in favour of community. She was recently fired for sp...Show More
4) Natural Dyes & Local Textiles - Malú Colorín
Malú Colorín is an artist and facilitator, specializing in natural dyeing and textiles through her business Talú. She also works for Fibreshed Ireland who are trying to re-localise the textile industr...Show More
5) Eco-Periods: Less Shame, Waste, & Chemicals - Abi O'Callaghan Platt
Abi O'Callaghan Platt is a campaign manager and environmental researcher at VOICE Ireland. Although VOICE has loads of great initiatives on reducing waste of all kind and encouraging more thoughtful u...Show More
6) Mini Ponds for a Major Difference - Gobnait Ní Néill
Gobnait Ní Néill is another legend in the community activism space. Her initiative, The Grassroots Guild, is one that empowers people to take impactful actions for biodiversity. She specialises in min...Show More
7) A Bit About Bats - Niamh Roche, Bat Conservation Ireland
Niamh Roche works for Bat Conservation Ireland so naturally, we delved into the 9 species of bats that call Ireland home. These winged neighbours of ours are so important for our ecosystem, but also f...Show More
8) Bringing People Together - Tom Popple, Climate Cocktail Club
Tom Popple is the founder of the independent advisory comapny for nature and climate - Be Impactful. He also volunteers his time organising frequent Climate Cocktail Clubs and the upcoming Climate Coc...Show More
9) Building Practices That Heal - Rachel Loughrey
Rachel Loughrey is a fellow climate activist (and friend!) and founder of Architects Climate Action Network / ACAN. She also shares some of her journey as an ecological architect on the Instagram acco...Show More
10) Bus Connects, Metrolink, & Dereliction with Green Party Cllr Feljin Jose
Feljin Jose is a Councillor for Phibsborough, Glasnevin, Drumcondra, Cabra & Ashtown in Dublin and a member of the Green Party. He has a special interest in all things public transport but is als...Show More
Bus Connects, Metrolink, & Dereliction with Green Party Cllr Feljin Jose
1:00:35 | Aug 18th, 2025