Introducing The Other Half Of TH’s Barcelona Team: Leonora Oppenheim

As a member of TreeHugger's editorial team since the early days of its creation Leonora has been privileged enough to witness the dramatic rise in environmental awareness over the last four years from the front row.

When not contributing to these pages Leonora works as a Sustainable Design Consultant collaborating with architects, designers and curators on innovative projects that are pushing eco-design into the mainstream. Leonora is the founder and director of Elio Studio - a multidisciplinary design & consultancy practice that communicates environmental issues to the wider public in engaging & entertaining ways.

To date Leonora has worked on consultancy projects for Nick Hancock Design Studio (UK), Jane Withers (UK), Architecture for Humanity (US), The Kallari Association (Ecuador) and on design installation projects for, amongst others, Thomas Heatherwick (UK), Marcel Wanders (NL), Atelier Van Lieshout (NL) and Niall O'Flynn (Spain) and with fellow TreeHugger Petz Scholtus for Demotech (NL). She also regular contributor to the online design magazine Cool Hunting.

Over the past 10 years Leonora has lived in Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Barcelona and Quito where she worked as a design consultant for the Kallari Association in Ecuador, an indigenous grassroots organisation. These days Leonora is based in London, but continues to explore both locally and globally.

Leonora can be contacted at leonora [at] treehugger [dot] com.