Clare Farrell: Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder & Sustainable Fashion Lecturer

Clare Farrell is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, the environmentalist group who lead huge protests against climate change. Alongside Greta Thunberg, they have helped force a conversation on global warming all over the world through direct action.

Having worked full time as fashion designer for high street and luxury labels, Clare felt so strongly about the fashion industry's damage to the environment, she quit to organise full time with the movement. She is now fashion sustainability lecturer at the University of Arts London.

We originally met to discuss the power behind the movement on 5th March 2020, just before life changed forever due to the global pandemic. Find this first discussion in the first half of the episode, where we discussed the action-based methods of Extinction Rebellion, the campaigns that inspired her to become a full time leader of rebellion, and how to get involved.

We later caught up with Clare, on 15th September 2020, when Extinction Rebellion were in the midst of a national relaunch. We discuss how climate damage has lead to the global pandemic; and the impact of Black Lives Matter on the movement. You can find the update in the second half of the episode. 

Follow Clare on Twitter. Follow Extinction Rebellion’s Fashion Act Now group on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Donate to their fundraising campaign at crowdfunder.co.uk/fashion-act-now. Get involved with Extinction Rebellion from anywhere in the world at rebellion.global. 

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Produced and recorded by Rena Niamh Smith. Theme music by Benjamin Tassie. Artwork by Fleur Beck. Sound engineering by Gibran Farrah. Consultation by Ben Weaver-Hincks. Original illustrations and social media editing by Charlotte Rose Watts. Special thanks to Chloe Vasseghi.