Cultural Evolution

Quality of Life

The arts, media, education, and awareness all contribute to quality of life and the evolution of our culture. What good is sustainability if what we are sustaining is full of hardship and ignorance?

With the increasing number of consumers that care about sustainability, personal development and education, the "alternative" media plays a particularly important role. New publications and trends research prove that this migration toward healthy lifestyles and sustainability is no fad, and it is indeed accelerating.

Businesses that appeal to these consumer values will have carve out an important niche in this growing market.

Media & Cultural Advancement

Investor-oriented, Entrepreneurial and "Sustainable" Business Publications:

Conscious Media's LOHAS Journal, tracking the Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability (LOHAS) markets.

See also 10th Annual LOHAS Media and Market Solutions Conference Videos (4/06) or other In3 calendar listings.

In Business, the magazine for "sustainable enterprises and communities"
Green Money Journal, socially responsible investing and trends since 1992.

Consumer-oriented Media (Health, Wellness, Healthy Lifestyles, Natural Living)

Alternative Medicine (www.alternativemedicine.com)*
BioCycle, the Journal of Composting and Recycling
Body & Soul (www.bodyandsoulmag.com)*
Hope Magazine (www.hopemag.com)
Mothering (www.mothering.com) -- the "Natural Family Living Magazine"
Natural Health Magazine (www.naturalhealthmag.com)
Natural Home Magazine (www.naturalhomemagazine.com)* -- "green" buildings ... see also Manufacturing
Organic Style (www.rodaleorganicstyle.com)
Spirituality & Health (www.SpiritualityHealth.com)*
The Well Journal (www.welljournal.com) -- "Cross-media publishing to serve the growing interest in wellness."
Utne Reader (www.UtneReader.com)* -- "A Different Read on Life" ... the best of alternative press
Wisdom Media (www.wisdommedia.com/), via cable TV, radio, Internet
The Yoga Journal (www.yogajournal.com)
* Conscious Media's magazine network (overview)

Retail Trade Media

LOHAS Journal / Weekly (www.naturalbusiness.com or www.lohasjournal.com)
Nutraceuticals World (http://www.nutraceuticalsworld.com/)
Networking Alternatives for Publishers, Retailers, & Artists, Inc. (NAPRA) -- a LOHAS media trade association for retailers (http://www.napra.com/)
Natural Products Industry (NPI) Center (http://www.npicenter.com/)
Organic Consumers Association (http://www.organicconsumers.org/)

Edutainment

Socially-responsible entertainment and educational media ("Edutainment" or "Infotainment"). Priority projects promote sustainability, sustainable technology, or provide education on how the "new sustainable economy" can be used for environmentally restorative commerce.

Film projects -- through our offices in Germany, we can arrange "gap finance" for producing certain types of qualifying films (view details below).

What is "Gap" Finance? Gap is the portion of a production budget which is not guaranteed through pre-sales. In most cases, we require that this gap be less than 30%. (Only if the project is extremely strong, will we consider funding more than 30%). In either case, gap finance requires reasonable forecasts of 200% of sales from the unsold territories.

For example, if a film is financed at 80%, whereas rights are pre-sold for the US and some European territories, the financing of the 20% gap requires that we see 40% of sales coming out of the yet unsold territories (e.g. Asia, Japan, etc.).


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