SAGE Magazine seeks submissions of environmental-themed writing and art for its upcoming spring issue (#5)! SAGE is a student-run publication based in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Its mission is to expand notions of environmentalism and mainstream communication about environmental issues.
SAGE offers a delightfully non-exclusive approach to environmental information, incorporating humor, art, culture, and cleverness in a way that engages those beyond the traditional "environmental movement." It is journalistic, chatty and creative, and appeals to anyone who cares about the world. WritingThe content of SAGE is eclectic, with articles about food alongside technology and politics. The magazine needs short and long works for its six departments (listed below). Sample story ideas are also included as suggestions; feel free to select a topic from the list or craft your own. Check out some previous issues online to get a better sense of the departments (http://environment.yale.edu/sagemagazine).
If you have a story idea and you're wondering where it might fit, or if you have any other questions about writing for SAGE, please email the editors at sagemagazine@gmail.com.
Art SAGE seeks original photography, drawings, painting, collages, digital art, poetry, or whatever else your imagination can produce. Art is sprinkled throughout the written content of the magazine, but SAGE may also profile artists by combining several works into a short feature.
If you have artwork to submit, please email art editor Kate Boicourt ( katharine.boicourt@yale.edu) with your original creations. You may submit low-res jpg, pdf, or tiff versions initally; if commissioned, our preferred format is a 300 dpi CMYK TIFF file.
The final deadline for all submissions of writing and artwork is Friday, March 29.
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Departments:
Out and Around: 500-700 words, lively and concise. Stories on newsy current events, local and global in scope. Inspiration: The Talk of the Town from The New Yorker.
Past examples: China's eco-cities, a profile of No Impact Man, California's climate change initiative.
Story ideas: 1. BioSub: profile of a man who built a sustainable submarine from a recycled train car. 2. Air pollution abatement at the Beijing Olympics: The challenge and the politics. 3. Case study of a greening city. 4. Water shortages in the southeastern U.S.
Materials: 600-700 words. An engaging look at the environmental implications of basic, pervasive materials.
Past examples: jatropha, plastic, diamonds, açaí.
Story Ideas: 1. Nano-composites: They promise miniscule computers and self-washing clothes. But just how green is minitech? 2. Copper: Ubiquitous but increasingly costly. How much do we have left? 3. Uranium and its depleted stepsister: where does it come from and where does it go?
4. Bisphenol-A and other hormone disruptors: That plastic water bottle may be doing more than just storing your water. 5. Building materials and/or insulation: Leaky houses, lax standards. How can materials help improve efficiency? 6. Cosmetics: How luscious is your lipstick? How "eco" is your eyeliner? Dive into the eco-histories of modern cosmetics, perhaps focusing on a particular product and its green alternative.
Innovations: 600-700 words. A look at the environmental implications of human technological experimentation. Past examples: biomimicry, toilets, mycorrhizal fungi, nanotech.
Story Ideas: 1. Computer chips made of chicken feathers. 2. Designed for reuse: Wal-Mart builds a store to later become an apartment building. 3. Floating on the wind: Turbines tethered at sea. 4. Green cemeteries: Who said death wasn't sustainable? 5. Light bulbs: The next generation.
Food for Thought: 450-550 words. Examining the connections between environmental trends and food production, marketing, and consumption.
Past examples: seasonal foods, organics go corporate, farm subsidies and the WTO.
Story Ideas:1. Palm oil in prepared foods: Local health, global emissions.2. Biotechnology: What's really in your corn, and who owns it?3. Trans-fat: The health and politics of partially hydrogenated oil.3. Urban farming/vertical farming initiatives.
Features: 1200-6000 words. An in-depth exploration of a current environmental challenge, trend or story.
Past examples: greening a Palestinian refugee camp, the life cycle of high tech waste, wood-burning stoves in developing countries, environmental destruction in Kashmir, transnational traffic of hazardous waste.
Story Ideas:1. Recycling: Where do those blue boxes send your trash when it leaves the curb?2. Politics: The environmental truth behind the glossy rhetoric.Photo Essays: 600 words (120 words/photo). Feature topics can also take the form of photo essays if you have striking images to go along with your (shortened) narrative.
The Cabbage: Up to 500 words. One of the best sources for 100% fabricated environmental news, according to the American Academy of American Academies! No relation at all to any other pungent vegetables.
Past examples: Corporate toxins rescue the planet from climate change, Donald Rumsfeld starts whale conservation non-profit, scientists solve climate change problem by making name way scarier.
http://environment.yale.edu/sagemagazine
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2 comments:
you can tell me to go to hell, but i'm changing the tag--something about seeing the word "pubes" in print makes me very queasy (kind of in the same way hearing the word "ointment" makes me queasy)
Ha! That's some editorial skills you've got.
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