Director of Environmental Progress UK.
Author of The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting and Only a Moment. Coming soon: Zero Waste Kids.
Co-founder of Nuclear for Net Zero.
Former spokesperson of Extinction Rebellion UK and Editor in Chief of The Hourglass newspaper. Previously Co-Editor of JUNO magazine.
Watch Zion's TEDx talk on stargazing.
Zion is a passionate science advocate and environmental journalist who wants to change the world for the better. Zion has a long history of climate activism and in 2019 she was a co-ordinator in Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK’s Media & Messaging team, and founded its newspaper, The Hourglass. She appeared on BBC World News, The Andrew Neil Show, BBC Politics Live, Good Morning Britain, Ed Miliband’s podcast Reasons to be Cheerful, and many other TV and radio programs as an XR spokesperson.
Zion founded XR’s print newspaper, The Hourglass, 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.
A review of Hourglass in The Guardian concluded: "The newspaper is worth a look, striking that all-important balance between horror and optimism. Come on, it’s important, buy a copy – except you don’t have to, it’s free!"
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 been an environmental journalist for many years. She was the Co-Editor of JUNO magazine, and has written for The Metro, The Telegraph, The Mail, City AM, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Resurgence magazine, The Ecologist and many other publications.
In 2020 Zion took up the position of Director of Environmental Progress UK to campaign for nuclear power. She appeared on Outsiders, Sky News Australia, The Mallen Baker Show and as part of this role has been interviewed by Yasha Mounk, Isabelle Boemeke, Syed Kamall and numerous others for their podcasts and shows. A full list of media appearances is available in the Media section of the website.
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.
'Zion Lights has turned the cliched hippy dippy image of green mama mantras on its head and instead rammed her brilliant book with heaps of common sense and evidence-based facts' - Gurgle magazine
Click the image to read more reviews of Zion's first book:
Author of The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting and Only a Moment. Coming soon: Zero Waste Kids.
Co-founder of Nuclear for Net Zero.
Former spokesperson of Extinction Rebellion UK and Editor in Chief of The Hourglass newspaper. Previously Co-Editor of JUNO magazine.
Watch Zion's TEDx talk on stargazing.
Zion is a passionate science advocate and environmental journalist who wants to change the world for the better. Zion has a long history of climate activism and in 2019 she was a co-ordinator in Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK’s Media & Messaging team, and founded its newspaper, The Hourglass. She appeared on BBC World News, The Andrew Neil Show, BBC Politics Live, Good Morning Britain, Ed Miliband’s podcast Reasons to be Cheerful, and many other TV and radio programs as an XR spokesperson.
Zion founded XR’s print newspaper, The Hourglass, 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.
A review of Hourglass in The Guardian concluded: "The newspaper is worth a look, striking that all-important balance between horror and optimism. Come on, it’s important, buy a copy – except you don’t have to, it’s free!"
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 been an environmental journalist for many years. She was the Co-Editor of JUNO magazine, and has written for The Metro, The Telegraph, The Mail, City AM, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Resurgence magazine, The Ecologist and many other publications.
In 2020 Zion took up the position of Director of Environmental Progress UK to campaign for nuclear power. She appeared on Outsiders, Sky News Australia, The Mallen Baker Show and as part of this role has been interviewed by Yasha Mounk, Isabelle Boemeke, Syed Kamall and numerous others for their podcasts and shows. A full list of media appearances is available in the Media section of the website.
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.
'Zion Lights has turned the cliched hippy dippy image of green mama mantras on its head and instead rammed her brilliant book with heaps of common sense and evidence-based facts' - Gurgle magazine
Click the image to read more reviews of Zion's first book:
