Climate roundtable: Aoife McNamara, Dr Tara Shine, Conor Spacey and Pat Kane on taking care of the planet

Feeling hopeless about climate change is understandable, but sustainability activists fight on. Maeve Lee brings four Irish experts together to ask them about a sustainable future — and what we can all do to make it happen

Zero-waste, plant-based chef, Conor Spacey; environmental scientist and policy advisor, Dr Tara Shine; founder of the first Irish B Corp fashion brand, Aoife McNamara; and sustainability strategist and founder of reuzi.ie Pat Kane.

On the ‘why’ and where their passion for sustainability began 

Aoife McNamara: Since I was younger, I’ve always been obsessed with being outdoors. So, it wasn’t that the word sustainable was something that I wanted to have in my clothing brand, it was why I started. Nature was in every single part of what I was doing - from my inspiration to my fabric sourcing. It was so seamlessly integrated into my process.