Zion Lights

Zion Lights

Zion Lights is the British author of the evidence-based nonfiction book The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting, a contributing editor to Juno magazine and a blogger at Huffington Post^[1].

Lights was born in the West Midlands region of England in 1984, and attended The University of Reading. She graduated in 2005, and is studying for an MSc in Science Communication at the University of the West of England. In August 2015, Lights was dubbed 'Britain's greenest mother' by The Daily Telegraph newspaper.^[2] In September 2015 Lucy Siegle writing in The Observer called Lights 'an eco pragmatist, happily heavily on evidence'.^[3]

Lights is an outspoken science advocate and in 2015 the Western Morning News newspaper reported that Zion is against pseudoscience.^[4] Lights recently did a TEDx talk^[5] on astronomy.

In 2013 Lights was on the cover of Breastfeeding Matters magazine. Zion was a columnist for the Express & Echo newspaper for six months in 2014.^[6]

Lights has written two books: a limited edition self-published work of creative writing titled More Things Should Be Thought Out Thus (2010),^[7] and a nonfiction book titled The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting (2015) published by New Internationalist Publications.^[8]

Lights had her first poem published in an anthology at the age of 14. Her poetry has appeared in various publications including the Tolpuddle Special of Citizen 32 magazine alongside Tony Benn and Benjamin Zephaniah, and in Musings, a poetry collection collated to raise funds for La Leche League GB.^[9]

Lights lives in Devon with her family.

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