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class="infobox-data">Bimonthly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total circulation<br />(2011)</th><td class="infobox-data">500,520<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data">John Shuttleworth and Jane Shuttleworth</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1970<span class="noprint">; 54 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1970</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ogden_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="Ogden Publications">Ogden Publications</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Topeka,_Kansas" title="Topeka, Kansas">Topeka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherearthnews.com">www<wbr />.motherearthnews<wbr />.com</a></span> </span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0027-1535">0027-1535</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Mother Earth News</b></i> is a bi-monthly American magazine that has a circulation of 500,520 as of 2011<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mother_Earth_News&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>. It is published in <a href="/wiki/Topeka,_Kansas" title="Topeka, Kansas">Topeka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since its founding, <i>Mother Earth News</i> has promoted <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Recycling" title="Recycling">recycling</a>, family farms, <a href="/wiki/Good_agricultural_practices" class="mw-redirect" title="Good agricultural practices">good agricultural practices</a>, better eating habits, medical self-care, more meaningful education and <a href="/wiki/Affordable_housing" title="Affordable housing">affordable housing</a>. The magazine approaches <a href="/wiki/Environmental_problems" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental problems">environmental problems</a> from a down-to-earth, practical, <a href="/wiki/Simple_living" title="Simple living">simple living</a>, how-to standpoint. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mother_Earth_News&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Founders John and Jane Shuttleworth started the magazine on a "shoestring" budget of $1500, published from home in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first issue was published in January of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-Armstrong_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Armstrong-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>(John Shuttleworth died on March 29, 2009, at his home in <a href="/wiki/Evergreen,_Colorado" title="Evergreen, Colorado">Evergreen, Colorado</a>, at the age of 71.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>The magazine was originally published in <a href="/wiki/Madison,_Ohio" title="Madison, Ohio">Madison, Ohio</a>, and moved to <a href="/wiki/Hendersonville,_North_Carolina" title="Hendersonville, North Carolina">Hendersonville, North Carolina</a>, later. The headquarters is in Topeka, Kansas.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had a scrappy, no-frills style and appearance throughout the 1970s. <i>Mother Earth News</i> embraced the revived interest in the <a href="/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement" title="Back-to-the-land movement">back-to-the-land movement</a> at the beginning of the 1970s, and combined this with an interest in the <a href="/wiki/Ecology" title="Ecology">ecology</a> movement and <a href="/wiki/Self-sufficiency" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-sufficiency">self-sufficiency</a>. Unlike many other magazines with ecological coverage, <i>Mother Earth News</i> concentrated on do-it-yourself and how-to articles, aimed at the growing number of people moving to the country. As a result, the magazine thrived throughout the 1970s. There were articles on home building, <a href="/wiki/Farming" class="mw-redirect" title="Farming">farming</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gardening" title="Gardening">gardening</a>, and entrepreneurism, all with a <a href="/wiki/DIY" class="mw-redirect" title="DIY">DIY</a> approach. The subject matter of the articles ranged widely into such subjects as <a href="/wiki/Geodesic_domes" class="mw-redirect" title="Geodesic domes">geodesic domes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hunting" title="Hunting">hunting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Food_storage" title="Food storage">food storage</a>, and even a regular column on <a href="/wiki/Amateur_radio" title="Amateur radio">amateur radio</a>. <a href="/wiki/Alternative_energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternative energy">Alternative energy</a> was a frequent topic covered in the magazine, with articles on how to switch to <a href="/wiki/Solar_power" title="Solar power">solar power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wind_power" title="Wind power">wind power</a>, and how to make a still and run your car on <a href="/wiki/Ethanol" title="Ethanol">ethanol</a>. </p><p>A series of "Plowboy Interviews" (a jokey nod to "<a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy Interviews</a>") was also a regular feature, which included interviews of <a href="/wiki/Environmentalism" title="Environmentalism">environmental</a> leaders and others. With its left-of-center perspective, <i>The Mother Earth News</i> attracted a wide readership, not only of <a href="/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement" title="Back-to-the-land movement">back to the landers</a> but also others ranging from <a href="/wiki/Hippies" class="mw-redirect" title="Hippies">hippies</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Survivalism" title="Survivalism">survivalists</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Suburban" class="mw-redirect" title="Suburban">suburban</a> dwellers who dreamed of someday moving to the country, to long-time rural dwellers who found the DIY articles useful. </p><p>In the March–April 1975 issue of the magazine, Issue No. 32, John Shuttleworth said in the second installment of the Plowboy Interview: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>For at least 20 years now, I've been getting an increasingly uncomfortable suspicion that all the major nations of the world — capitalist and communist — suffer from the narrow delusion that only people, and people alone, have any rights on this planet. Further, that human wants, needs, and desires — seemingly the more capricious the better — should be instantly gratified. And further still, that this can always be done in a strictly economic frame of reference. </p><p>"In short, I think that we live in an unbelievably marvelous Garden of Eden. Surrounded by miraculous life forms almost without number. Kept alive by a mysteriously interwoven, self-replenishing support system that, with all our scientific 'breakthroughs,' we still do not understand. </p><p> "And yet, as favored as we are by all this real wealth, we somehow perversely prefer to spend almost all waking hours interpreting the sum total of this reality in terms of the narrow and distorted, strictly human-centered concept of money."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In 1979 editor Bruce Woods and two other employees bought the magazine from the Shuttleworths. <a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Eco-Village&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Eco-Village (page does not exist)">The Eco-Village</a>, a 600-acre (240 ha) research center, was in full swing with vast experimental gardens, houses, and energy projects. Each summer 20,000 people took <i>Mother Earth News</i> seminars on everything from <a href="/wiki/Beekeeping" title="Beekeeping">beekeeping</a> to <a href="/wiki/Cordwood_construction" title="Cordwood construction">cordwood construction</a>. A radio show shared the magazine's philosophies on hundreds of stations nationwide and <a href="/wiki/Alternative_fuel_vehicle" title="Alternative fuel vehicle">alternative fuel vehicles</a> carrying the <i>Mother Earth News</i> logo criss-crossed the country. </p><p>The magazine flagged somewhat with the declining popularity of the back to the land movement in the early 1980s. Eventually, it was sold to the New American Company in 1986, who redesigned it with a much slicker image and repositioned it as "The Original Country Magazine." A number of employees of <i>Mother Earth News</i> left the magazine at this time to start <i><a href="/wiki/BackHome_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="BackHome Magazine">BackHome Magazine</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New American stopped publishing its magazines, and sold them to Sussex Publishers in 1991. The magazine survived, and grew through the late 1990s and the first half-decade of the 21st century. Notable gardener <a href="/wiki/Ira_Wallace" title="Ira Wallace">Ira Wallace</a> was the mid-Atlantic correspondent during the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sussex Publishers in New York City owned the magazine until 2001, when it was acquired by its current owners, <a href="/wiki/Ogden_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="Ogden Publications">Ogden Publications</a>. </p><p>In 2010, the magazine celebrated its 40th anniversary. The February–March issue included articles from the magazine's previous 40 years.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, the magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Each magazine issue that year contained content about the 50-year history of the title. Controversy hit the magazine in August, when they received public criticism from authors such as Chris Newman, for their lack of diversity in authors and representation. Ogden initially responded stumblingly, but has since embraced numerous initiatives to diversify its content, audience, and staff.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mother_Earth_News&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Grit_(newspaper)" title="Grit (newspaper)">Grit</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Utne_Reader" title="Utne Reader">Utne Reader</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Harrowsmith_Country_Life" title="Harrowsmith Country Life">Harrowsmith</a></i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mother_Earth_News&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120724165959/http://abcas3.accessabc.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp">"eCirc for Consumer Magazines"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Audit_Bureau_of_Circulations" title="Audit Bureau of Circulations">Audit Bureau of Circulations</a></i>. 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