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Delivering the opening keynote at the New Nuclear Summit, London. April 2025

Zion Lights is an award-winning Science Communicator who is known for her environmental advocacy work and her vision of a high-energy, low-carbon future. 

• Author of Energy is Life: Why Environmentalism Went Nuclear
  
• Recipient of the Holyoake lecture medal.
• Recipient of the YouTube Silver Creator Award
• Clean Energy & The Energy Transition Correspondent at The European
• Patron of Humanists UK
• ​Former Editor of The Hourglass newspaper and Spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion. 
• TED speaker on the importance of stargazing

Zion is the author of Energy is Life, which shows how science, technology, and the choices we make today can transform our energy systems and bring power to those who need it most. She also wrote the evidence-based The Ultimate Guide to Green Parenting, the nature poetry book Only a Moment, and has contributed to multiple other titles including humanitarian Rob Greenfield's Zero Waste Kids and the French book Lumières sur le Nucléaire.

Zion has a large following across social media, with notably over half a million followers on YouTube and TikTok where she fights misinformation and teaches people science in an eccessible way.

In 2023 Zion held the Scientific Section Presidency for Education for the British Science Festival. She was also awarded the Holyoake Lecture medal by Humanists UK.

Zion has been called “Britain’s greenest mother” by The Daily Telegraph and “an eco-pragmatist, happily heavy on science” by The Guardian. In 2018 when working as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, Zion founded The Hourglass newspaper, the first climate reporting newspaper in the UK. Hourglass reached a print run of 180,000 copies that were distributed across the UK by a network of volunteers. A

Zion has an MSc in Science Communication from The University of the West of England (UWE). A journal paper Zion wrote on the Sustainable Development Goals for Knowmad Institut is available here. Zion is also an Honorary Member of Saving our Planet.

For enquires regarding video content, consultancy, workshops, public speaking and other collaborations, get in touch with Zion at: [email protected]

Copyright-free photographs of Zion for media purposes are available here.