Francesca Lyman
Journalist & Investigative Reporter
Award-winning journalist & author of environmental books. Investigative reporter, columnist, &. mng. editor of the green-building site Solaripedia, public speaker. Sketch artist. chicha19@outlook.com
PROJECTS
KING5.com
Thrift store chain's practices targeted by WA attorney general's suit
KING5 "Live at Five" focuses on Value Village in an interview on this thrift-store chain. "Two years ago, the nonprofit media organization InvestigateWest published a series of articles about Value Village that brought to light some of the activities that [WA. State Attorney General] Bob Ferguson's suit seeks to end. The reporter who wrote those stories -- Francesca Lyman -- joined KING 5's Amanda Grace and David Espinosa-Hall to talk about what her reporting found."
SEJ Journal
Journalist Spotlight: Francesca Lyman
Francesca Lyman is a journalist and author of such books as The Greenhouse Trap: What We're Doing to the Atmosphere and How We Can Slow Global Warming, with World Resources Institute; and a children's...
asja.org
Winner of Arlene article
The Arlene award for articles 'making a difference,' one of ASJA's Annual Writing Awards
Land & People, Trust for Public Land
The Geography of Health
for Land & People magazine, the Trust for Public Land: "Nature is in some fundamental way important for the human psyche, and as such it is really central to public health."
The New York Times
The Rise of 'Green' Modular Homes
Nationwide Homes
A line of small, efficient “eco-cottages” were among the green modular homes on display at the International Builders’ Show last month.
Kevin Clayton, the chief executive of Clayton H...
invw.org
InvestigateWest reporting on Savers prompts three state inquiries ...
InvestigateWest reporting on Savers prompts three s...
fij.org
“Writing That Makes a Difference”
Francesca Lyman’s investigation of a for-profit thrift store chain which does more than $1.2 billion in business a year, while masquerading as a charity, has won an Arlene Award for Writing that Makes a Difference. The award comes from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), which honors outstanding nonfiction work produced on a freelance basis each year.
The story was reported for InvestigateWest with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
ASJA is the professiona...
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The Splice of Life
An early commentary on the promise and perils of genetically engineered products.
Amazon
Inside the Dzanga Sangha Rain Forest: Francesca Lyman ...
The journals of the scientists, artists, and filmmakers on expedition to a remote rain forest in Central Africa, home to Baka pygmies, gorillas, elephants and 200 foot trees.
Amazon
The Greenhouse Trap: What We're Doing to the Atmosphere and How We Can Slow Global Warming (World Resources Institute Guide to the Environment): Francesca Lyman: 9780807085035:
The Greenhouse Trap: What We're Doing to the Atmosphere and How We Can Slow Global Warming (A World Resources Institute Guide to the Environment)---If it's not already here, signs are that climate change may come soon. What will global warming mean for all of us who share the planet? How will it affect our health, our food supply, and the plant and animal species around us? How does our present way of life damage the atmosphere-and what can we do now to make a difference?
NBC
Your Environment| NBC News
"Your Environment" a biweekly news and views column for MSNBC.com, covering medical health science as it applies to our health and well being; covered the environmental health impacts of terrorist attacks at the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon from day one, 9/11/2001, ongoing for several years. Winner of a First Prize for environmental journalism.
SEJ Journal
Are We Ready For the Next Superstorm?
The destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy is a timely reminder of some of the threats climate change can pose to life and infrastructure. What can communities do to better prepare? How can communities prepare for the mental-health needs, and the other effects on human health that massive storms increasingly pose?