Now tackling microfibres! Fashion Revolution co-founder Carry Somers has a new mission - o get us thinking about the link between fashion and microplastic pollution.

Carry is a British fashion designer and social entrepreneur. She co-founded Fashion Revolution in 2013 in response to the Rana Plaza factory collapse. Her fair trade brand Pachacuti is known for its beautiful Panama hats. In February 2020, Carry set sail on the all-women eXXpedition from Galapagos to Easter Island to research ocean plastic pollution.

Emily Penn is a British sailor and the co-founder of eXXpedition - a series of all-women voyages exploring the impacts of plastics and toxins in our oceans. "The only way to reduce the potential impacts on human health and the environment is to reduce consumption," she says.

But where to begin? For the next two years, a total of 300 women will sail around the world on eXXpedition's voyages of discovery, to look deep into what's going on with plastic in our oceans, and try to come up with solutions.

Why XX? Women are underrepresented in science and sailing - the XX in the title refers to the female sex chromosome. Could plastic pollution be gender discriminatory? Could women suffer greater effects from it than men? Remember, pollution can bio-accumulate - the fish eat the plastic, and we eat the fish. Of the estimated 700 contaminants in our bodies, many have barely been researched.

Me Too became a household name in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. But it’s a movement not a moment. In this important interview, we hear from Me Too’s founder Tarana Burke, who works with survivors of sexual violence, particularly Black women and girls, and other young women of colour from low wealth communities, to find pathways to healing.

How to shop secondhand (& why you should). British stylist Bay Garnett started working in fashion in the late ‘90s, and edited the NY version of Cheap Date - a zine started in London by Kira Joliffe, inspired by a love for thrifting. Bay famously put Kate Moss in the pages of British Vogue wearing vintage and has long been top of Clare’s list of charity shop fashionistas.

Her latest project? Second-hand September for Oxfam.

Find out how she does it, how thrifting has changed over 20 yrs, and why giving garments multiple lives is more important than ever as a tool to reduce fashion’s environmental impact.

An intimate conversation with Amber Valletta - the supermodel, activist, and sustainable fashion’s favourite face.

Hear how she moved from celebrity covergirl (she had her own MTV show in the '90s, and in the 2000s did a Hollywood movie with Will Smith) to fashion's eco conscience. Today Amber is perhaps the model most closely associated with eco-fashion, works with Stella McCartney, and protests on behalf of climate action with Jane Fonda.

But can a career in fashion really be sustainable? How does she deal with the overwhelm about over-consumption? Could self-care be the answer?

Special Report: How Climate Change is Impacting The Great Barrier Reef.

Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Headlines to that effect zoomed around the world after two consecutive bleaching events in 2016 and 2017. But Australia’s most famous World Heritage wonder is still very much with us - a vast eco-system, roughly the size of Germany, it teams with life. It is however under threat from climate change and other factors - what’s being done to build resilience on the reef?

We are discarding clothing and other unwanted items at a record rate. So what happens to all our stuff when we’re done with it?

Meet ADAM MINTER - the recycling obsessive who grew up on a junkyard and now works for Bloomberg. The author of Junkyard Planet and Secondhand - Travels in the New Global Garage Sale travelled all over the world talking to the people who deal in trash.

In this fascinating interview, Clare picks his brains about everything from how metals get recycled to the politics of exporting our trash.

Biophilic design is a buzz phrase with good reason. What if our buildings weren't just a little bit more energy efficient or decorated with a few extra plants? What if they gave back to the environment instead of taking away from it?

Meet visionary US-based Canadian architect Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge and the Living Future Institute, on a mission to “create a world that is socially rich, culturally just and ecologically restorative”.

How might we truly live in harmony with nature? And, as Jason puts it, “create places that are not only lovely but express the love we have for people, for animals and for the environment.” This Episode is all about how we can rethink our built environment so that it’s regenerative, and provides havens for other species too.