Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince
Nationality British
Occupation
Awards Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Website www.wanderinggaia.com

Gaia Vince is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author[1] with British and Australian citizenship.[2] She writes for The Guardian,[3] and, in a column called Smart Planet, for BBC Online.[4] She was previously news editor of Nature[1][3] and online editor of New Scientist.[3]

Her Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, making her the first woman to win the prize outright.[1] The book discusses the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems.[5] A second book, Cultural Being: The Science of our History, is to be published by Penguin.[2]

Vince wrote and presented a three-part Channel 4 television series Escape to Costa Rica, first broadcast in April 2017. Filmed in Costa Rica with her partner Nick Pattinson and their two young children, the series explored the country's environmental initiatives, renewable energy and sustainable development.[6]

Bibliography

  • —— (2014). Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701187347.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sample, Ian (24 September 2015). "Top science book prize won by woman for first time". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 Cowdrey, Katherine (26 January 2016). "Penguin Press strikes six-figure deal to publish scientist Gaia Vince". The Bookseller. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Gaia Vince". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Smart Planet". BBC Online. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Borenstein, Seth (14 October 2014). "With their mark on Earth, humans may name era, too". AP News. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Webb, Claire (30 April 2017). "Escape to Costa Rica: How a tiny country in Central America became an eco-paradise". Radio Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
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