SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Write for The Environmental List
What, how, and why
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All we ask in The Environmental List is for your articles to break down concepts and ideas related to the environment, complete with necessary scientific evidence and in the simplest English possible.
Remember that the goal of the publication is to spread awareness, and that means you should back your writing with verifiable facts and make it interesting and understandable to the average reader.
Be a contributor.
Send in your articles by first filling out the form below. Applications are usually approved within 24 hours.
After we’ve added you as a writer, you can submit your draft by clicking on the three dots on the upper right corner of your browser and hitting “Add to publication”.
You will see the list of publications where you are currently a contributor. Click on “The Environmental List” > “Add draft” > “Submit”.
We respond to submissions within 24–48 hours. After accepting your draft article, the editors may do minor fixes on grammar and sentence structure or replace images whenever necessary. Please make sure to follow Medium’s Curation Guidelines for a seamless submission process.
That’s it! Welcome to The Environmental List!
What We Publish
Everything that happens in the spacetime fabric can impact the environment. This means that the sky is NOT the limit — it’s science. You have an infinite selection of topics to write about and below is by no means an exhaustive list of the types of articles that you can submit.
1. Personal takes and experiences
Write about your personal experiences and give readers a glimpse of unique environmental phenomena through articulate writing. It could be an interesting environmental practice in a country you visited, the implications of environmental policies in your area, or any take on an environmental concern that keeps you up at night.
As long as your articles add value to the environmental discourse, present cited evidence, and do not spread misinformation, we’d love for you to keep them coming.
2. Environmental Issues and Occurrences
The goal of the publication is to forge a stronger connection between humans and the environment. This requires at least a basic understanding of issues and their implications.
As an example:
The burning of plastic materials emits toxic gases into the atmosphere, which in the long run, damages the ozone layer and poses carcinogenic risks, among others.
The sentence definitely contains critical information. Nevertheless, it might just be remembered as “sOmEone SaYs plAstIc buRniNg is bAd”. A lot will not truly understand what those consequences mean.
When news outlets announced that a storm surge was to be anticipated in Tacloban, Philippines, back in 2013, residents failed to see looming danger as they did not know what storm surges were. This resulted in the excruciating loss of thousands of lives from what would have been a preventable tragedy.
This is how jargons hide information in plain sight. And this is why we write.
3. Research and innovation
If you’re studying metal-organic frameworks or photocatalysis and you believe you can make a random reader curious about those weird words, then we need you. We’d love to offer readers new information that can tickle their senses and encourage them to learn more.
If you’re a painter who did rigorous research on what your paintbrush is made of and what happens to it after it’s of no use to you, then we need you.
If you are an expert on the circular economy or on environmental sustainability and are willing to help us make them more than just buzzwords that people barely understand, be part of the team.
Basically, we need everyone with a passion to expose science for what it is. It’s not always some intimidating idea brewed in a remote lab by scientists who wear thick lenses. Sure, it could be too. But science is also all around us, often covered in a fog of jargon, and that’s why we write!
