Mother Earth News

Mother Earth News is a bi-monthly American magazine that has a circulation of 500,520. It is based in Topeka, Kansas. Since its founding, Mother Earth News has promoted renewable energy, recycling, family farms, saner agricultural practices, better eating habits, medical self-care, more meaningful education and affordable housing. The magazine approaches environmental problems from a down-to-earth, practical, simple living, how-to standpoint. 2History Founders John and Jane Shuttleworth started the magazine on a "shoestring" budget of $1500, published from home in 1970. The first issue was published in January of that year. John Shuttleworth died on March 29, 2009, at his home in Evergreen, Colorado, at the age of 71. The magazine was originally published in Madison, Ohio, and moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina later. The headquarters is in Topeka, Kansas. It had a scrappy, no-frills style and appearance throughout the 1970