Leonora Oppenheim
Leonora Oppenheim is a design storyteller. Which is a neat way of saying she uses word, image and form to portray local cultural, environmental and community stories to wider audiences. In short, she's passionate about provoking discussion and debate through creativity.
From working on plans for a chocolate factory with cacao farmers in the Ecuadorian Amazon, to reporting on biogas toilets from the mountains of northern Ethiopia, to teasing out themes from the Do Lectures in West Wales, Leonora has many a tale to tell of her adventurous and inspiring encounters with creative minds around the world.
Leonora regularly puts finger to key to tell epic tales of design derring and sustainability do for online and print publications, and as director of design practice Elio Studio, she crafts her narratives in collaboration with architects, designers, curators and scientists.
Currently Leonora is focusing her energies on Creative Data, an initiative to design a series of conversations about future landscapes. Working in collaboration with climate and social scientists these interactive installations act as creative spaces for people to discuss local environmental issues in their own communities.
Leonora has lived and worked variously in Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Barcelona, New York and Quito. These days she's based in London, but continues to explore both locally and globally.
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TH Exclusive: Sneak Peek at Speaker Line Up For Do Lectures 2010
Ooh now this is exciting! TreeHugger is very proud to have been given an exclusive sneak peek at the speaker line-up for the Do Lectures 2010. The four days I spent in a
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London Fashion Week: Christopher Raeburn Reaches New Fashion Heights With AW10 NEWGEN Show (Photos)
We're delighted to see the brilliant British designer Christopher Raeburn on the fast track to fashion success this season at London Fashion Week. He not only reached new heights with a stunning aerial installation of parachutes and jackets for the
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London Fashion Week: 8 Fabulous Accessories from Estethica AW10 (Photos)
Drama, colour and detail, that's what the most fabulous ethical fashion accessories are about this season at London Fashion Week. Like this incredible tagua (vegetable ivory) and waste cattle bone
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London Fashion Week: 5 Stunning New Ethical Labels at Estethica AW10 (Photos)
There's nothing like Fashion Week to bring light and colour to a rather grey and drizzly London at this time of year! Sunday's visit to Estethica was full of sartorial delights, the ethical fashion showcase raises the bar
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New Frontiers: Sustainable Design Innovation Initiative Launches in the UK
For those doubtful about how we can get out of the various sustainability crises we now find ourselves in, financial, social and environmental, I have two words for you: design innovation. When faced with dire
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Declaring our love for the Best Green Valentines Around the Blogosphere
Love is the air as Valentine's Day approaches this weekend. And while we regularly show our appreciation for all the other amazing green bloggers out there on TH Blog Love, at this time of year it seems even more appropriate to declare our feelings!
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Just How Entertaining Can Climate Change Really Be?
If anyone needs a right good laugh it's surely those ever so glum and deadly serious environmentalists. One of the many problems with the
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What Do Green Bloggers Think About Apple's iPad?
So the iPad has finally been revealed, and we don't mean the house! Is it a technological revolution or was it a bit of a predictable anticlimax? Apart from the unfortunate feminine hygiene jokes that are spreading rapidly through the Twitterverse,
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Shift Festival: KT Tunstall, Marcus Brigstocke + Friends Take Over Southbank Centre For Cape Farewell
This week melting arctic icebergs come to London in the form of music, comedy and fashion. The wonderful Cape Farewell organisation, which takes groups of artists, musicians
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Top 5 US Political Posts of the Week Featuring: Obama's 1st year, Scott Brown Win + Murkowski's Congress Block
This week seems to have been a tumultuous one in American politics, with Obama coming under heavy scrutiny after his first year in office, with Scott Brown's unexpected victory in Massachussetts, and with Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska,
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Interview with Bahar Tafti About Reusable KeepCup at Tent London (Video)
At the London Design Festival last year this TreeHugger was invited to join the DeTnk TV team at Tent London to showcase the best in sustainable design at the festival. Last week we showed you my interview with bamboo furniture designer Jair
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After Haiti Earthquake Disaster Urgent Appeals For Aid Spread Across Blogoshpere
As the full scale of the tragic earthquake disaster in Haiti becomes apparent there is a mass mobilization effort to get aid and support to the stricken island as soon as possible. Planet Green have posted on 10 Ways to Help the Haiti Earthquake Relief
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Interview with Bamboo Furniture Designer Jair Straschnow at Tent London (Video)
At the London Design Festival last year this TreeHugger was invited to join the DeTnk TV team at Tent London. At the 2008 show I had been interviewed by Max Fraser, but at Tent 2009 the shoe was on the other foot, so to speak, and I got to take the
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Future Green Trends - Top 5 posts on the Year + Decade Ahead From Around The Blogosphere
Having picked over the old bones of 2009 in Mairi's Best and Worst Review it's time to look ahead to the future. John Laumer kicks us off on an optimistic note with his Nine Hopeful Predictions For 2010, while Sara Snow cures our holiday hangover with
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Book Review: Prosperity Without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet
It's the beginning of a new year and with so many economic and environmental challenges ahead we need all the inspiration we can get to help us get over our Copenhangovers! For all the myriad of reasons that the Copenhagen Climate
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Top 5 Scrumptiously Festive Food + Drink Recipes Across The Blogosphere
After last week's relatively serious Copenhagen roundup on TH Blog Love, we're going to lift ourselves out of the post Cop15 depression and get into the festive spirit with some scrumptious holiday recipes for you to enjoy with your celebrations! Over
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Copenhagen Roundup: Top 10 Reports Of The Week From Cop15
It's a bumper version of TH Blog Love this week as we come down to the wire at Copenhagen. Tck Tck Tck! As predicted we're all waiting for Obama to wave a magic wand to bring about an agreement at the very last minute. Is he, to quote a friend's recent
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Future Visions - Chronicles of Ecotopia Event in Copenhagen Tomorrow
Last week's guest poster Ella Saltmarshe asked if we are drowning in dystopias? Where are the positive visions of a sustainable future? Even Cop15 opened with a film of a child's nightmare of future
