The Amicus Journal is published quarterly by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-profit environmental group. Amicus focuses on environmental policy developments of regional, national and international significance but also includes investigations, profiles, poetry, personal essays, book reviews, opinion pieces, and short news stories. Recent reporting has covered ocean noise pollution and its effects on marine mammals, Chattanooga's efforts toward sustainability, the environmental justice movement, sustainable architecture, environmental action in developing countries, the population problem, and suburban sprawl in the Rockies. The Amicus Journal welcomes submissions from free-lance journalists and authors. However, we are unable to consider speeches or fiction, or technical, conference, consumer, or product reports.
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Articles purchased by The Amicus Journal are acquired with first North American publication rights, plus the nonexclusive right to reprint the article in whole or in part, in print or electronically. All subsequent printings must mention that the article first appeared in The Amicus Journal. Please do not send full-length manuscripts. However, we will accept slides or contact sheets with negatives, and can convert from color originals if necessary. All photographs should have neatly typed credits and captions affixed to their backs.