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Contact:
LynnLandes@gmail.com /
714-204-2690
BRIEF BIO
Lynn
Landes is a Philadelphia-based activist, freelance journalist, speaker, and publisher
of
LynnLandes.com and its contents, as
well as a wife, "stay-at-home" mom, & grandma... although clearly she gets
out a lot! The website includes her
many activities, articles, meetups, and websites that cover a wide
variety of subjects,
including politics, health, and the environment, as well as foraging,
fiber arts, and historic streets.
Lynn's
latest ventures are
Philly's Republican Network and
her online journal,
Get Sensical!
In the 1980's, Lynn and her husband, Cliff, were new parents raising three lovely children and living in Yardley, PA. Lynn was involved in several community endeavors, to include: President of The Friends of Lake Afton, Founder of the Shade Tree Commission, The Yardley Community Center, and co-founder of a women's volleyball group.
During the 1990's, Lynn and other activists successfully fought against the fluoridation of their drinking water. But, she mainly focused on waste issues. She was the Solid Waste Chair for the Sierra Club in Pa and appointed to the PA State Solid Waste Advisory Committee. Lynn also founded Zero Waste America, an Internet-based environmental research organization. Her eco-articles have been featured in print, online publications, and the books, Pollution: Opposing Viewpoints and Softly On This Earth. Lynn was also featured in interviews on environment and health issues by WebMD. Her 1998 report, State of the Nation’s Waste, was reported throughout the U.S.. From 1999-2002, Lynn was an environmental & health news reporter for Drexel University TV (DUTV) in Philadelphia, hosted her own radio talk show on WDVR in New Jersey, and was a weekly commentator for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio program Five Alive.
Also in the 1990's, Lynn was the Chair of the Democratic Party in Lower Makefield, PA and ran unsuccessfully for Township Supervisor. Today, she's a MAHA Republican in Philly.
From 2000-2008, Lynn
reported and spoke out on Election Integrity issues, which can be found
at
ProtocolsForDemocracy.org. Lynn's work has been noted in the
books
Hacked and
BlackBoxVoting, and was a guest speaker at events across the country. Lynn also appeared in
several documentaries including: Got
Democracy, The
Right To Count, Stealing
America, and her own, Voting
101 and The
Fix Is In.
From 2010-2025, Lynn started five more websites & meetup groups. On foraging (Wild Foodies of Philly) and the fiber arts (Philly Knits), whose meetups now include more than 10,000 members. Although still involved with them, Lynn has passed the leadership on to others. She also started Small Streets Philly, SafeStreetsPhilly, & Health Alert Philly, whose meetups have ended, but their websites continue to provide useful information.
Lynn
is limiting herself to her
latest ventures, which are
Philly's Republican Network and
her online journal,
Get Sensical!
Lynn (Ehlinger) Landes and her husband, Clifford (White) Landes, have lived in Center City Philadelphia since 2001. Cliff is a retired airline pilot and former Pennsylvania Air National Guard pilot. They have three amazing adult children, five fabulous granddaughters, and two yappy dogs!
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