The original natural family living magazine, founded in 1976. Reader-supported
and trusted by thinking people around the world who want positive alternatives
to high cost, high consumption lifestyles for themselves and their families.
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Natural Life Celebrated
The year 2006 marked the 30th anniversary of the launch of
Natural Life magazine.
Here are some of the highlights of those three decades...from the
days of black and white photos, typesetting and paste-up by hand,
before personal computers and the Internet.
The front cover of the first issue, published in November of 1976, featured a traditional farm scene, while on the back was the same scenery with a "modern" back-to-the-land scenario of geodesic dome, wind generator and other sustainable lifestyle features. Natural Life has come a long way since then, but maintained the same independent ownership and editorial integrity. And its mandate is still the same. Here's how founder and Publisher Rolf Priesnitz put it in the first issue: "Natural Life magazine was created to help provide the information that each of us needs to base our decisions on the day-to-day alternatives available to us. The more communication and interaction there is, the closer more of us can come to finding our own personal solutions to ensuring humanity’s survival on this Earth. We hope to show the natural alternatives which will provide the greatest chance for a peaceful co-existence. Natural Life will report on developments in the environmentally appropriate technologies; focus on the positive steps each of us can take to live as close to the natural life as possible; provide contact with people and organizations engaged in the search for the natural life; and serve as a medium for the exchange of views on how to attain a saner world in which to live." We're proud that more than 30 years later, Natural Life continues this work of providing personalized green solutions to climate change and natural family living with a new generation of readers. Have a look back with us at the features we published in 2006 highlighting some of the solutions we've provided to readers across North America and around the world since 1976. Here is a complete PDF version of the September/October, 1978 issue of Natural Life (5 meg file). Here is a feature interview with Natural Life magazine founder and publisher Rolf Priesnitz, in the November/December 2006 issue.
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