Raquel Noboa's mission to make hospitality more sustainable through 50 Shades Greener

Raquel Noboa tells Cáit Caden about her company, which offers courses in sustainability training

Raquel Noboa, founder of 50 Shades Greener, at home in Rannagh, Liscannor, Co Clare. Picture: Brian Arthur

Raquel Noboa was steadily climbing the ladder in the hospitality industry when, in the mid-noughties while in the Maldives, a tsunami knocked her off course and eventually led her to create the sustainability-focused company 50 Shades Greener, in Co Clare.

Ms Noboa was working with Universal Hotel Group in the Maldives in 2004 when the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami happened, after which she developed what she calls “eco-anxiety”.