Green Sustainable Magazines

Defining Sustainable

What does sustainable mean when it is used in terms of low-impact living? The definition includes conserving an ecological balance so that depletion of earth's natural resources can be avoided.

Sustainability focuses on creating the best outcomes for both the human and natural environments. The goal is not just for conservation now, but also for the future, and the future of our children's children.

Green Magazines Are Available

Some of the sustainable living magazines include:

• Green Magazine is a publication informing green industry professionals about the many aspects of sustainable and green business.
• Green At Work is a guide to the business world's growing embrace of sustainability.
• Living Green Magazine educates readers about green practices and eco-friendly products for our communities.
• Eco IQ Magazine is for all who want to make economically and ecologically sound decisions.
• BioCycle focuses on advancing composting, organics recycling, and renewable energy.
• In Business is for those corporations and businesses who want to create sustainable enterprises and communities.
• Mother Earth News strives for wise living through alternative methods of conservation.
• Green Car stresses the global environmental issues in dealing with alternatives to gasoline-burning vehicles.
• Permaculture Magazine, published in the United Kingdom, offers solutions for sustainable living.
• EDC Magazine, an environmental design and construction source, looks at integrated high-performance building.
• The Planet is published by students three times a year by Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University. It is a magazine stressing responsible journalism while promoting environmental advocacy.
• Our Planet is the magazine of the United Nations Environment Program, first published after the Montreal Protocol, a global effort to protect the ozone layer.
• Energy and Sustainable Development Magazine, created in 2002, is written by professionals with years of clean energy solutions.

How we live now impacts our children's children

What Green Sustainable Magazines Offer

When you pick up a magazine that informs and educates the public on sustainability, you can also find these topics within the magazine pages:

• Effective waste reduction and recycling
• Wind power as a form of energy
• Choices about the food we eat
• Conserving energy
• Organic produce
• Solar power
• Endangered animals
• Greenhouse gases and waste management options
• Conserving our forests
• Combating climate change
• Protecting the ozone layer
• Urbanization's effect on sustainable development
• Sustainable agriculture

It is obvious that green living incorporates the desire to take care of all of earth by striving to live with, and use, earth-friendly eco-habits. Westerners are not the only ones promoting an awareness of conserving earth's resources -- Asians and Mid-Easterners also have magazines in their languages to alert their citizens of the importance of waking up to ecological preservation.

To help readers with their questions about the environment, Friends of the Earth International, an organization based in The Netherlands, has an ecological dictionary on their website. Easy to use, this is a helpful resource for learning the meaning of many phrases and words.

The Future of Green Sustainable Magazines

Are green sustainable magazines here to stay? The answer is a resounding "yes." In fact, as recently as the spring of 2007, Transcontinental Media announced the launch of Vision Durable, a business magazine "to bridge the gap between the concept and implementation of sustainable development in Canada."

The more we realize the need to conserve our energy, change our lifestyles to save and preserve earth's resources, and educate our businesses and communities on healthier methods of operation, you can be assured that green living magazines will continue to flourish.