avatarAgnes Laurens

Summary

The Earth Guide provides guidelines for submitting articles focused on nature, sustainability, and personal experiences with the natural world, emphasizing the use of stock photography and adherence to submission rules.

Abstract

The Earth Guide outlines specific content preferences for article submissions, including pieces that encourage reflection on one's relationship with nature, practical solutions for sustainability, and personal narratives involving nature and wildlife. The publication requires that all articles be previously unpublished and behind Medium's paywall, use stock photos with proper credit, and avoid clickbait titles. Contributors must agree to all submission rules, use designated hashtags, and submit only original drafts. The guide also details the process for new writers to contribute, which involves filling out a form and waiting for manual processing.

Opinions

  • The Earth Guide values authentic, personal experiences and insights over promotional content for companies.
  • The preference for locked content behind the Medium Paywall suggests a commitment to compensating writers through Medium's Partner Program.
  • The emphasis on using stock photos by Unsplash or a contributor's archive indicates a desire for visually appealing content with proper attribution.
  • The strict policy against previously submitted stories and clickbait headlines reflects a dedication to originality and quality content.
  • The requirement for articles to be in English may be intended to reach a broader audience but could also limit contributions from non-English speaking writers.
  • The manual processing of new writer applications suggests a curated approach to maintaining the publication's standards and integrity.
Photo by Adolfo Félix on Unsplash

Guideline to publish on The Earth Guide

When you want to publish for The Earth Guide, you must follow the rules below.

What to publish:

  • We prefer articles that help you think about your behaviour towards nature, plants, earth, sustainability, animals and other earth-related topics.
  • What are the problems that caused damage to the world and earth?
  • What are the issues we can solve and how? Think about sustainability issues: how can I make my house worth living in while it’s sustainability proof.
  • What have you done already to make it happen and what do you want to do in the future.
  • We prefer articles that help you and the reader being in nature and what it does with you as a person and your wellbeing and your health that you want to pass it through others.
  • This could be what happens to you when you are in nature: walking, cycling or whatever you’re doing.
  • What kind of plants are there in the world we should know about and need to learn more about. Are there dangerous plant and which are not.
  • What kind of animals are there in the world, which is dangerous and why, where do they live etc… and what are your experiences?
  • Articles that have anything to do with nature. Like when you’re walking, cycling, running, mountain biking and so on. It must be related to nature, plants, earth, sustainability, animals etc…
  • We prefer locked content that is behind the Medium Paywall.
  • Use stock photos by Unsplash. Or photo’s from your archive. Always name the photographer. Photo’s without the photographers’ name will be not published or deleted.

Submission rules:

By submitting a story to The Earth Guide you agreeing to ALL of our rules and requirements. When your submissions are rejected for violations of our rules and requirements, will be removed as a writer of The Earth Guide.

Hashtags you must youse:

  • #nature
  • #plants
  • #earth
  • #sustainability
  • #animals

For submissions, follow the next rules:

  • We want unpublished daft stories only behind the Medium paywall.
  • Stock photography only, preferably by Unsplash or your archive. Only stories with stock photography or your photos will be accepted. When there is no name, stories will be deleted or not accepted.
  • No clickbait headlines. Stories must be experienced by yourself.
  • If we don’t let you know we received your story within a week, please consider as not accepted this time. Please, do repeat submitting your stories. Maybe next time it will work out for you.
  • Already submitted stories will be not accepted in The Earth Guide.
  • All stories must improve the reader and the writer to get a better understanding and life experiences about the earth, nature, plants, animals and sustainability. The writer must let the reader think about this topic.
  • Blogposts and posts about companies that have anything to do with this topic will be not accepted. When you still do this, you will be removed as a writer. We only want your experiences!
  • All stories must be in English. Stories in other languages will be removed.
  • Companies and stories about companies will be removed. We are interested in personal stories.

Request to contribute:

New writers must fill in this form or make an account to be added as a writer for the first time. It’ll take time to process for adding you as a writer. We do this manually.

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