What is Green Futures?

Green Futures is a magazine about the latest in environmental solutions and sustainable futures.

It’s published by Forum for the Future, the sustainable development charity founded and chaired by Jonathon Porritt.

We aim to inspire our mainstream audience that the pursuit of sustainable development is feasible, practical, profitable and life-enhancing! We try to be engaging and entertaining as well as authoritative – to be a “want to read” as well as, we hope, a “must read”, too…

Readers include politicians, business people, local authorities, campaigners, the media, educators and students. Most of the circulation is ‘controlled’ – i.e. we send it to a carefully compiled list of decision-makers and opinion-formers in those sectors. (Readers’ surveys show that a gratifyingly large number of them do indeed read and appreciate it!). And there are a growing number of paying subscribers from among the general public.

Suggest topics or stories for us to cover

The editorial team accepts relevant press releases on a rolling basis, on positive stories about environmental solutions that will be of national and international interest. Please send press releases to: post@greenfutures.org.uk. A member of the team will contact you for more information if they feel it's something they can use.  Please note that we don't cover financial results and new appointments, and we don't do book reviews.

Writing for us

Are you an experienced journalist with a great story? Then read on...

What we're looking for

Lively writing for a non-technical, educated reader.
Our readership (see above) means stories should be aimed squarely at the mainstream, rather than specialists or activists. Successful articles will avoid either a campaigning or an academic voice. If you want a benchmark, think in terms of the weekend supplements of any of the quality broadsheets, or the features pages of papers like The Independent, The Guardian, the FT or similar.

Topics on the sustainable development agenda.
Green Futures often includes articles on energy, travel and transport, food, health, business, entrepreneurs, finance, cities, countryside (have a look at our current issue on this site).

Proposing your editorial ideas

Propose your ideas by emailing post@greenfutures.org.uk

Explain what you plan to cover and how you will undertake the reporting. The pitch itself should convey your approach, tone, and style; and should also answer the following:

• Why is this a Green Futures story?
• What are the key issues – and solutions / ways forward?
• Why are you the best person to write this story?

If you have not contributed to Green Futures before, please attach some relevant samples of your writing along with your submission.