Elaine Doyle has a passion for sustainability in her working day and evening play. She is an engineer by trade with a masters in Sustainable Development. She works with FoodCloud, a social enterprise working to reduce foodwaste with social and environmental benefits. She owns an environmental product design company called 'Bolt' making products to promote sustainability, her first products are seedbombs called 'Secret Seeds'. She is setting up that venture through the 'School for Social Entrepreneurs'. She is the Head of Overseas Placements with Engineers Without Borders Ireland and is on the committee of Transition Ireland Northern Ireland and EIL's Development Education Committee. Last summer she was one of the EIL Global Awareness Programme awardees and spent two months working on sustainable development projects in Guatemala and was awarded an EIL Gold medal volunteer award for work she carried out upon her return.
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