Nicola Peel
Amazon Activist and Solutionologist
Venue: the Teacher’s Club, Dublin
Date: Monday, August 13th
Time: 7.30pm
(Admission free, donations welcomed)
Nicola Peel is an award winning environmentalist, filmmaker, speaker and solutionist. Nicola has been working in the Ecuadorian Amazon for 18 years on a number of environmental and social projects. Finding solutions to oil spills with fungi, building rainwater systems for indigenous people suffering from contamination due to the oil industry, training farmers in agroforestry to prevent the slash and burn of tropical rain forests and cleaning the beaches of tons of plastic, turning rubbish into a resource.
Nicola’s focus has been to find practical solutions to respond to those in need who are suffering due to resource extraction, poverty and climate change.
She believes that ‘nature is our greatest teacher’ and during her presentation she will give examples on some of the solutions found in Nature.
During her visit to Ireland Nicola will be speaking in:
- The Teacher’s Club, Dublin 1, Monday August 13th at 7.30pm
- The Pavilion, The Green, Edgeworthstown, Longford, Tuesday August 14th at 8pm,
- Secret Garden, William St West, Galway, Wednesday August 15th at 7pm
- WeCreate, Cloughjordan, Thursday, 16th August, 7.30pm.