[GBlist] Healthy Planet in St. Louis

[JBL44@aol.com]

Dear Green Building folks,

My name is J.B. Lester and I am the publisher of The Healthy Planet in St. 
Louis. Our earth-friendly, and health-conscious monthly magazine is heavily 
promoting “Green Building and Creating an Eco-Home” beginning with our 
March, 2001 edition. We will start by having our cover dedicated to this 
important subject and then follow up with a regular section filled with 
articles, ads and other resources for our 75,000 readers. The success of this 
issue and following section depends partly on you and your possible 
participation. As I have read many of these emails over the past year from 
many of you, I have been amazed at what resources there are out there for 
creating a GREEN home, office, school, church, community, city & planet! Now 
is the time to share much of your information with us here in St. Louis. As 
more and more publications like The Healthy Planet pop up across the country, 
it is important for people and businesses like yours to get involved and 
share your products, services and expertise. Because as wonderful as the 
dialog has been on these emails for the past months, the reality is how to 
get consumers involved. And our 75,000 readers are consumers who are ready to 
begin “Thinking Green.” And then doing something about it. What I would like 
from you is two things: 1) We are a free paper and we need 
advertising support to make our paper fly. If you have a Green product or 
service that is available via mail order, catalog, web site or if it 
available in the St. Louis area, we need you to place even the smallest ad 
with us. Our rates can be seen at our web site: www.thehealthyplanet.com.  2) 
And best of all, we need articles written by you, the people of knowledge in 
this growing field. Even if you don’t consider yourself an expert, but have 
experience with certian products or services, we need your info. What is your 
area of particular interest? Let us know about it. We do hope that those of 
you who have products or services for sale will place ads and write articles. 
These people will be considered first of course. But we are looking for all 
kinds of Green info. So even if you don’t stand to gain new customers or 
clients from being in The Healthy Planet, we will consider your article as 
well. All articles should be no longer than 500 words. Short is sweet in the 
publications business these days. Even though many of you could write 
thousands of words about GREEN BUILDING, remember that people don’t read long 
drawn out articles any more. Blame it on USA Today if you want. But shorter, 
informational articles is what we want — geared at giving information and 
making the reader want to take action right now. Make changes in their lives 
and begin thinking GREEN right away. All articles need to be emailed to me 
at: JBL44@AOL.COM by Feb. 8. If you have photos or graphics you want to send 
along, please send them as tif, eps, jpeg files. Or you can mail to: The 
Healthy Planet, 20 North Gore, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63119. 

We really do need your help. Green Building is something that is beginning to 
gain momentum here in St. Louis but we need expertise and experiences from 
around the country. We need our readers to learn more about your products and 
services. So please let me know if you are interested so I can make a list of 
what articles and ads are on the way. If only half of you will respond to 
this as you have the GREEN CHAT over the past year, we will have a great 
issue and be able to continue our GREEN BUILDING section all year long.

Good Health and thank you in advance for your help!

J.B. Lester
Publisher
The Healthy Planet
20 North Gore, Suite 200
St. Louis, MO 63119
314-962-7748
Fax: 314-962-0728
www.thehealthyplanet.com
JBL44@AOL.COM

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