Deceleration is a San Antonio-based environmental justice journal serving the South Texas bioregion. They welcome “proposals for short- and long-form news articles, community op-eds, personal or creative nonfiction essays, theoretical/political analysis, calls to action, multimedia content, and hybrid concepts (documentary poetry, photoessay), and more.” They pay $50 for smaller items and $0.50 per word for longer-form explanatory/investigative pieces. For more information, visit this page.
Climate Home News covers global
climate politics. They welcome article pitches from freelance writers from
around the world. They want news stories that have a climate change angle as
well as an international outlook. Topics of interest include “climate finance,
major energy projects, land use conflicts, loss and damage attributable to
climate change, greenwash, climate diplomacy and geopolitics.” Rates begin at
£0.35/word. For more information, visit this page.
Nexus Media News is a nonprofit news service dedicated to climate change. They are always seeking pieces on how communities across the United States are responding to the climate crisis. They are especially interested in solutions-oriented stories centering on frontline and BIPOC communities. Their rates start at pay $500 for reported features (1,000 to 1,200 words) and single-subject profiles. For details, read their pitch guide.
Where the Leaves Fall (WtLF) is a print magazine that explores humankind’s connection with nature. They publish quarterly. They accept pitches for written features (1,400-3,000 words); Q&As (around 1,400-3,000 words); photographic features (with introduction of 500-800 words); dialogues (550 or 800 words); illustrations; and more. According to this Tweet, they pay £0.25 GBP a word. To contribute, refer to this page.
Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine is a
bi-monthly magazine that covers environmental issues, social justice, engaged
activism, spiritual values, arts, and more. They accept pitches for articles. According to
their editor,
they pay £100 for 500-word articles and £200 for 1,000-word articles. Pitches
should be sent to editorial@resurgence.org.
To learn more, read their pitch guidelines.
Footprint Magazine (formerly known as the
Sustainability Action Network) is a solutions-focused journalism platform that focuses on the future of our planet.
They cover climate change, sustainability, scientific innovations, green
policies, human ecology, and more. They are looking for story pitches. They do
not want stories that report problems within the sphere of climate change, they
want stories about active, positive change. They pay £100 per 800 to 1,200
words. If interested, send your pitches to hello@sustainact.net.
Read their contributor guidelines here
and learn more about them here.
Asparagus Magazine is a publication that is “dedicated to telling the large and small stories of how we can live sustainably, from an environmental, social, and cultural perspective.” Their “audience is primarily on the West Coast, and located in both Canada and the US.” For online articles, they are interested in pieces of 500 to 1,500 words. Each print issue includes a handful of features of 2,000 to 3,000 words. They pay an average of C$0.25/word. They get funding from the Canadian government that requires them to prioritize Canadian creators. They welcome submissions from writers from groups that are under-represented in the media. If interested, email your pitches to asparagusmagazine@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.
GreenBiz is a business-to-business media company that focuses on corporate sustainability practice and strategy. They are looking for both shorter (500 to 800 words) and longer (800 to 1,200 words) pieces across a range of topics. Their target audience is senior leaders in large corporations. These senior leaders’ “firms are driven by hardcore business goals as much as by sustainability ones, and they’re seeking to align the two.” According to their editorial director, they pay $200 to $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
China Dialogue is a bilingual website that covers global environmental issues, with a special emphasis on China. They welcome unsolicited submissions. They publish “articles by journalists, academics, experts, policymakers, activists and concerned citizens.” They want writers to keep their articles to about 1,200 words in English or 2,000 characters in Chinese. According to their editor, their base rate is around $300. For details, visit this page.
Ours to Save is a new journalism initiative that focuses exclusively on the climate crisis. Their interactive map shows “crowdsourced, breaking climate news from all over the world.” They pay £50 per article. To learn more, refer to this page.