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Beginning with the
July/August 2008 issue, Life Learning and Natural Child magazines
are being reintegrated back into Natural Life magazine, where they
began over three decades ago. Natural Life is one of the oldest and
most respected natural lifestyle publications in
North America
and a pioneer in the fast growing field of healthy, sustainable
family living.
A large overlap has developed among subscribers,
contributors and advertisers of our three magazines. Some people
have told us that they have, at times, been confused as to which one
of our magazines they were reading! The merger will eliminate the
redundancies and put into practice the important ecological
principle that less is more. Subscribers will only have to pay for
one subscription and advertisers will reach a larger audience of
like-minded people. Importantly, our collective ecological footprint
will also be smaller.
When we launched Natural Life magazine in 1976,
the purpose was twofold. We wanted a home-based enterprise that
would allow us to facilitate the home-based education of our two
daughters and we wanted to provide readers with information about
sustainable family living and unschooling. For 32 years now, we have
explored ways to eat lower on the food chain; to build smaller, more
energy-efficient homes; to birth our children at home, to educate
them there as well, and to live with them in a loving and
non-coercive manner. Natural Life’s mission has been to demonstrate
how these are not restrictions, but exciting opportunities to create
social and environmental sustainability by choosing the least
harmful ways of living on this finite planet and by building new
paradigms.
The combined magazine will
inspire and inform with even more personal experiences about how
families are making the planet a better place to live. The
July/August issue is being prepared for
mailing and has been sent to newsstand distributors. Meanwhile, we have made a
preview available.
We hope that the Natural Child community will
continue to thrive, both through Natural Life magazine and this
website, where we will be posting new articles on a regular basis –
some of which will be website exclusives.
Current subscribers to
Natural Child will now receive Natural Life. (If you already have a
Natural Life subscription, it will be extended.) And if you are not
a current Natural Child subscriber, we hope you will consider
subscribing to
Natural Life Magazine!
Wendy and Rolf Priesnitz, Life Media
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