Francesca Lyman

About

Award winning writer for magazines and newspapers. Author of one of the first books on global warming, THE GREENHOUSE TRAP: WHAT WE'RE DOING TO THE ATMOSPHERE AND HOW WE CAN SLOW GLOBAL WARMING, with World Resources Institute, (Beacon Press, 1990) and still in print; a children's book, INSIDE THE DZANGA SANGHA RAIN FOREST, with the American Museum of Natural History (Workman Publishing, 1998). Specialties: Writing consumer/trend pieces, essays, social commentaries, features and profiles about people working on the environment, health, sustainable design and architecture; green business and technology trends, forests and conservation, parks management, urban planning and real estate. Arts, music and theater coverage. Articles published by NBCNews.com,The Sacramento Bee, Ms. Magazine, MSN Channels, Seattle Met, Horizon Air, Parks & Recreation, Popular Mechanics Magazine, Sierra, Orion, Patch, Crosscut.com, Yes! and other publications. Author of the YOUR ENVIRONMENT column. MSNBC.COM. Other publications: GREEN GEMS: media guide; ONE EARTH, MANY NATIONS, United Nations Association.