About Us

Most important, E helps readers become active! Over 700 readers responded enthusiastically to a recent questionnaire about actions they had taken in the last year. Here's what they said:

• 60% wrote letters to legislators,
  
• 93% recycled at home and their office,
  
• 70% joined an environmental group,
  
• 69% ate lower on the food chain, and,
  
• 90% purchased products which have a lower environmental impact.

E is featured and quoted widely by the press, and is regularly syndicated by several national and international news agencies, including The New York Times syndicate, and AlterNet.

In fact, in calendar year 2006, over 100 articles from E's pages were selected for republication in other newspapers, magazines and on-line services. E reprints and excerpts can be found in scores of books, textbooks, teachers guides, research servces, and online in many forms, including extensively throughout the library market.

E Magazine’s also publishes and distributes EarthTalk, an environmental question-and-answer column, provided free weekly to newspapers, news services, environmental organizations and green-friendly companies. In direct fulfillment of E‘s editorial mission, EarthTalk is an effort to reach “beyond the choir” of committed environmentalists and offer highly useful information to sympathetic but uninformed people shown in poll after poll to be ready and even eager for “green” information.

EarthTalk answers reader-submitted questions on a wide range of environmental topics—“from the global village to your backyard”: “Is genetically modified food safe for human consumption?” “How do I remove the asbestos siding from my house and dispose of it properly?” “Are ‘environmentally safe’ household cleaners really better for my health and for water quality?” “How do I know if what I’m buying is truly organic?” Nearly 400 outlets presently carry EarthTalk, which has a total weekly readership approaching 4 million.

In 2004, E published its first book, Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, which is edited by E editor, Jim Motavalli, and includes the contributions of 10 of E’s regular writers and noted environmental photographer, Gary Braasch. Feeling the Heat expands on a September 2000 E cover story that profiled actual world “hot spots” where people are already coping day-to-day with the consequences of climactic disruption.

E's newer book, Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth,>/i> released in July 2005, is a comprehensive guide to the environmental lifestyle. From recycling to rainforest protection, Green Living introduces readers to broad categories of issues, and features a compendium of green products and services, from organic foods to non-toxic cleaners to eco-travel options. Like E itself, the book is loaded with contact information so readers can conduct further research or join activist efforts.