Welcome ... and thank you! For a donation of $5, you'll receive two things: (1) A one-year gift subscription to Earth Bytes, our digital newsletter. Earth Bytes offers updates about climate and earth science, what's going on planet-wide, the relationship of earth to human culture — and all-important critical updates on hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and other threatening natural processes. ... and ... (2) A PDF download of the first issue of Journal of the Earth. Thank you so much for helping us launch!

For the price of a sandwich (small one!) and a vente ... (1) You'll receive a year's subscription to our Earth Bytes newsletter (with its up-to-the-minute updates on critical weather and earthquake events) ... (2) We'll send you the first TWO issues of our full-color Journal of the Earth magazine as a downloadable PDF ... and ... (3) You'll make it onto the Honor Scroll, which means that your name, city, state and country will be part of a scrolling credit line that thanks our beloved Kickstarters on our website for three months. Thank you so much!

More! Like the folks above, you'll have ... (1) A year's subscription to Earth Bytes ... and ... (2) Your entry on the Honor Scroll on the website for three months. ... and ... (3) With this one you'll have downloadable PDF versions of Journal of the Earth for an entire year ... and ... (4) You'll receive our splendid "Responsible Earthling" bumper sticker in our signature type style. Please go to the bottom of our "story" to see the bumper sticker. Thank you!!!

The list is growing [s]: (1) You have a one-year subscription to Earth Bytes. ... (2) You're on our website Honor Scroll for the fall quarter. ... (3) You've got our Responsible Earthling Bumper Sticker. ... But now ... (4) You have an honorary one-year subscription to the PRINT edition of Journal of the Earth. ... and ... (5) We'll send you our Journal of the Earth MUG. Thank you so much!

OK, here it comes: (1) Earth Bytes for a year. (2) Print magazine for a year. (3) Your name on the Honor Scroll for the fall quarter. (4) YOUR NAME LISTED IN PRINT in the first issue of the magazine in our Grateful Thanks section. (5) Physical stuff: Journal of the Earth mug, Responsible Earthling bumper sticker … and ... (6) Our magnificent Journal of the Earth tote bag made from recycled plastic bottles. Grateful thanks!

The list is expanding! (1) Earth Bytes for a year. (2) Print magazine for a year. (3) Your name on the Honor Scroll for a YEAR. (4) YOUR NAME LISTED IN PRINT in the first issue of the magazine in our Grateful Thanks section. (5) Journal of the Earth mug, tote bag, Responsible Earthling bumper sticker ... and ... (6) Our Journal of the Earth BASEBALL CAP.

The list is expanding! (1) Earth Bytes for a year. (2) Print magazine for a year. (3) Your name on the Honor Scroll for a YEAR. (4) YOUR NAME LISTED IN PRINT the first issue of the magazine in our Grateful Thanks section. (5) Journal mug, tote bag, Responsible Earthling bumper sticker, baseball cap, and ... (6) a rolled Journal of the Earth POSTER.

The list is expanding! (1) Earth Bytes for a year. (2) Print magazine for a year. (3) Your name on the Honor Scroll for a YEAR. (4) YOUR NAME LISTED IN PRINT the first issue of the magazine in our Grateful Thanks section. (5) Journal of the Earth mug, tote bag, Responsible Earthling bumper sticker, baseball cap, and ... (6) Journal of the Earth FRAMED poster.

All of the above physical goodies, PLUS ... A place on our ADVISORY COUNCIL for a year, a wonderful entry for your resume. Your name appears in the publishers' block IN PRINT for a year now, and once each quarter we'll poll you about what you think are the most pertinent issues, and ask you to recommend subjects, writers, photographers, painters, and poets. ... So be thinking about what you'd like to recommend!

Mug, tote bag, baseball cap, bumper sticker and framed Journal of the Earth poster, plus website Honor Scroll and print publishers block acknowledgements and membership for a year on our Advisory Council. ... Now you also have Patron Subscriptions to Earth Bytes and Journal of the Earth print magazine — ongoing for the life of the magazine — and you'll receive a print acknowledgement in and a free copy of our first photographic book, Images of Earth, which will be published next summer. Rewards begin in December 2012 or sooner and gifts continue to come through the summer of 2013.

Q1 (WINTER) 2013 ... INTERESTED IN A LITTLE PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE? You're going to be a Guest Editor on one of our Teaching Spreads, which involve at least two scientific and two humanities approaches to a beauty of nature or a little, fascinating element of science. You'll get an editor's credit, and you'll be co-designer from the concept through draft, images and maps, layout, typesetting, license forms, and publication. You may even wind up writing the copy for the spread. Your name will appear in print as guest editor in our publishers block for your issue. We'll welcome your input about a subject, so be thinking of a favorite topic!

Q2 (SPRING) 2013 ... INTERESTED IN A LITTLE PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE? You're going to be a Guest Editor on one of our Teaching Spreads, which involve at least two scientific and two humanities approaches to a beauty of nature or a little, fascinating element of science. You'll get an editor's credit, and you'll be co-designer from the concept through draft, images and maps, layout, typesetting, license forms, and publication. You may even wind up writing the copy for the spread. Your name will appear in print as guest editor in our publishers block for your issue. We'll welcome your input about a subject, so be thinking of a favorite topic!

Q3 (SUMMER) 2013 ... INTERESTED IN A LITTLE PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE? You're going to be a Guest Editor on one of our Teaching Spreads, which involve at least two scientific and two humanities approaches to a beauty of nature or a little, fascinating element of science. You'll get an editor's credit, and you'll be co-designer from the concept through draft, images and maps, layout, typesetting, license forms, and publication. You may even wind up writing the copy for the spread. Your name will appear in print as guest editor in our publishers block for your issue. We'll welcome your input about a subject, so be thinking of a favorite topic!

FOR YOUR KIDs / GRANDKIDS ... A DEDICATED COLOR SPREAD. A reader's spread is the two pages of a magazine that you see when you open it up. You know, left page and right page is ... well ... one visual image. In the Journal we have what we call Teaching Spreads, in which a full-bleed image spreads across the two pages and in that one visual tableau there is information about the subject coming from two scientific and two humanities angles. ... If you choose this one, a small but very visible rectangle will appear on the spread that follows this format: Sema and Ismet Akyol have donated this page to their grandchildren, Sheherezade, Ahmet, Ceren, and Deniz. Parents/grandparents will receive a framed color print of the full-sized page, and each of the kids will receive a smaller plaque of the image that bears her/his individual name. These rewards are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, the first three in the inaugural issue. The others, three each, will appear in the following three issues, winter, spring and summer 2013.

WEBSITE / EARTH BYTES SOLE QUARTERLY SPONSORSHIP. This is a Corporate/University advertising sponsorship. Yours will be the only corporate sponsorship on the website and in Earth Bytes for the quarter you are sponsoring. And ... You will receive a full-color, full-page ad in both electronic and print editions of the Journal. The ad has to be approved for appropriateness, subject, and content. First-come, first-served basis for fall (soon!), winter, spring, and summer editions. Also ... bumper sticker, baseball cap, mug, tote bag, framed poster, and a framed copy of your ad. ... And, our absolutely undying gratitude! The first one arrives November, the others in February, May, and August 2013 respectively. We'll design your ad for free if you want our help.

CENTERFOLD DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD. Corporate/University Advertising Sponsorship: Centerfold double-page spread, full bleed, full color display ad. One for fall, winter, spring or summer issues, on a first-come, first-served basis. Also ... bumper sticker, baseball cap, mug, tote bag, framed poster, and a framed copy of your ad. ... And, our absolutely undying gratitude! The first one arrives late November, the others in February, May, and August 2013 respectively. We'll design your ad for free if you want our help.

INSIDE FRONT COVER DOUBLE-PAGE AD. Corporate/University: The inside front cover double-page spread, the first thing they see when they open the magazine. Full color, full bleed. One for fall, winter, spring or summer issues, on a first-come, first-served basis. Also ... bumper sticker, mug, tote bag, baseball cap, framed poster, and a framed copy of your ad. ... And, our absolutely undying gratitude! The first one arrives December the others in February, May, and August 2013 respectively. We'll design your ad for free if you want our help.

BACK COVER FULL-BLEED AD. Another Corporate/University advertising sponsorship. The back cover of the print magazine for fall, winter, spring, or summer issues. First-come, first-served basis. Content, design, and subject matter have to be approved. Also ... bumper sticker, mug, tote bag, framed poster, baseball cap, and a framed copy of your ad. ... And, our absolutely undying gratitude! The first one arrives December, the others in February, May, and August 2013 respectively. We'll design your ad for free if you want our help.

PATRON SAINT. In addition to all the physical goodies, a place on the Advisory Council, and the eternal subscriptions, your name will always be in publishers block as a patron of the magazine. You'll be invited to yearly meetings where we talk about where the planet is going, about cinema projects — the first of which is Hozho, which explores the Navajo concept of Nature — and about engagement of the magazine with the larger world. This is not meant to be a purely American or Western magazine, and as we move forward, we want to engage those from all over the world to tell their stories and express their concerns. People capable of making this level of contribution are typically very successful people in one life stream or another or have been involved in philanthropy for some time. Both groups are often drawn to issues that transcend their personal welfare and extend to the world at large. If you decide to contribute at this level, we profoundly appreciate the money. We are just as interested in your sage counsel, know-how, and perception as we plot the future course of the magazine, its cinema, and its books. Our first meeting will likely take place at Yosemite National Park with a side trips to the forest home of John Muir and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias. We'll also be inviting engaged entrepreneurs, inventors, tribal Elders, poets, painters, lawmakers, musicians, scientists, mythologists, economists, psychologists, theologians, and philosophers. Bring hiking shoes ... and a really good camera. [s]