What is the good, the bad and the ugly in the Green Movement?
Monday 10 May, 17:30 - 18:30
With Zion Lights
FORMER EXTINCTION REBELLION SPOKESPERSON
Founder of Emergency Reactor, is a science communicator and published author. Zion founded The Hourglass newspaper, the first climate reporting newspaper in the UK. Hourglass reached a print run of 180k copies that were distributed across the UK by a network of volunteers. As Editor in Chief Zion managed a team of Hourglass staff and coordinated interviews with leading figures for the newspaper including Margaret Atwood, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, Christiana Figueres, Ray Mears, Michael Eavis, and Maxine Peake.
Zion is the author of the evidence-based book The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting, the nature poetry book Only a Moment, and the forthcoming Zero Waste Kids with Rob Greenfield. She has been called “Britain’s greenest mother” by The Daily Telegraph and “an eco-pragmatist, happily heavy on science” by The Guardian. Zion is an astronomer and her TEDx talk, “Don’t Forget to Look Up,” is on the importance of stargazing.
Zion has an MSc in Science Communication from The University of the West of England (UWE) and lives in Devon, UK, with her two children.