The editors at GreenSource magazine welcome the submission of your work for consideration. While we receive a considerable volume of unsolicited work, we review every project submitted and offer a range of opportunities for publication. Below are recommendations on how to submit materials.

Getting Started
First read the magazine and study it, so you understand what kinds of stories we run. Understand the logic and difference between the features, case studies and departments. Target your inquiry by explaining why your submission should interest our readers, explaining where you think your story or project might fit in. Ideally, projects should be current or completed in the last two years.

News
News stories are posted weekly on our Web site. Is there interesting news in green legislation? Was your firm awarded a commission that is newsworthy? Is there something new to report in the world of green initiatives and design? Are you managing a major green competition? If so, direct your press materials via e-mail only to andrew_wright@mcgraw-hill.com. Please note that GS does not publish personnel changes, information about office relocations, the awarding of LEED-certified status to a building, or news regarding in-house initiatives by a firm or institution.

Case studies
Each issue of the magazine features five projects (four overall building designs and one interiors only) that both illustrate good design and important green characteristics. These are also published on our Web site. If you wish to submit your project for consideration, send color copies of professional photography, a project narrative, and documentation of sustainable design achievements by regular postal mail. The documentation should include, at a minimum, annual energy use by fuel type. If the project is new, predicted energy use is sufficient, but if the project has been occupied for over a year actual energy use should be included as well.

Products
If you are a manufacturer of building products and have an interesting product to showcase, you should direct your inquiry to our products editor, mark@buildinggreen.com. All products featured in GreenSource are screened and approved by BuildingGreen’s editors for its GreenSpec Directory and priority is given to previously unpublished products. We accept press releases via e-mail and regular mail. For e-mailed releases, please send only low-res images and include the text as both an attachment and in the body of the email. High-res images will be immediately deleted due to email memory limitations. For regular mailed releases (which are preferred), include a slide, glossy color photo, or CD with high-res images with a labeled color printout of the product(s). Please include a short release (no longer than a page) describing the product’s characteristics and advantages. Please make it clear on the press release where and to whose attention reader service inquiries should be directed. We ask publicists following up on the status of their materials to do so via e-mail and not by phone. Send releases to Mark Piepkorn, Environmental Building News, BuildingGreen, Inc., 122 Birge Street Suite 30, Brattleboro, VT 05301.

General information   
We do not publish unsolicited articles. We also do not accept materials written by second party ghostwriters or PR firms. Please also note that if you send materials unsolicited, we cannot be responsible for their condition, acknowledging their receipt, or returning them.

In sending graphic materials, please avoid oversized formats because they are hard to handle without being damaged. CDs and electronic images sent via e-mail are also difficult to share in the roundtable reviews because they must be printed out, a time-consuming process. Since we have limited publication space, the vast majority of articles in this magazine are written by staff or commissioned from an existing pool of freelancers.

If the project is accepted for publication, the editor will let you know what is expected for production purposes. Projects need to be professionally photographed and drawings should be no larger than 11 x 17 inches. For publication, we require Mac-compatible 300 dpi, 4-by-5-inch, high-resolution copies of images and require PMTs or Adobe EPS files of line drawings with no tones, no furnishings, and no labels. We cannot accept tif or jpg images of drawings or CAD files. Please include scale and directional arrows. Clear, well-exposed photos of models also print well.

Mailing address:

GreenSource Magazine
Jane Kolleeny, Managing Editor
Two Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10121-2298

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