Background

Since its 2008 launch, Miller-McCune has won the Utne Reader

Utne Reader

Utne Reader is an American bimonthly magazine. The magazine collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment from generally alternative media sources, including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music and DVDs...

 Independent Press Award 2009 for science/technology coverage and the 2008-2009 Society of Environmental Journalists

Society of Environmental Journalists

The Society of Environmental Journalists is a non-profit created by and for journalists who report environmental topics in the news media. The mission of the Society of Environmental Journalists is to strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism across all media to advance public...

 Award for Outstanding Explanatory Journalism, and been named one of Library Journal

Library Journal

Library Journal is a trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey . It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practice...

s in 2009 and MIN's "Hottest Launches of 2008".

The magazine was founded by Sara Miller McCune

Sara Miller McCune

Sara Miller McCune is the co-founder and Chair of SAGE Publications.She founded the independent academic publishing company SAGE with her late husband George McCune in 1965. She is on the Board of Directors of The American Academy of Political and Social Science...

, an entrepreneur and world philanthropist, who is perhaps most recognized for her role as founder and head of SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications

SAGE is an independent academic publisher of books, journals, and electronic products in the humanities and social sciences and the scientific, technical, and medical fields. SAGE was founded in 1965 by George McCune and Sara Miller McCune. The company is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California,...

, one of the world’s largest independent academic publishers. In 2010, she was named to the FOLIO: 40 list of publishing innovators.

Readership and topics covered

The magazine was created for opinion leaders, policymakers, and concerned citizens who are interested in developing solutions to some of the world’s toughest social and environmental problems. Drawing from the latest scientific research and evidence, Miller-McCune is published bimonthly in print and continuously online at www.miller-mccune.com by the nonprofit Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, headquartered in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

, Calif.

In-depth pieces include stories such as Native Environmentalism and the Alberta Oil Boom, Global Warming

Global warming

Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

: the Archaeological Frontier, When Facebook

Facebook

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 Is Your Medical Record as well as Art and Alzheimer’s: Another Way of Remembering, the story of Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos)

Hilda Goldblatt Gorenstein (Hilgos)

-Early Years:A native of Montreal who grew up in Portland, Oregon, Gorenstein started painting as a teenager at a time when women artists weren't very well received...

 and the documentary I Remember Better When I Paint

I Remember Better When I Paint

I Remember Better When I Paint is a 2009 feature length international documentary film about the positive impact of art and other creative therapies in people with Alzheimer's disease and how these approaches can change the way the disease is viewed by society...

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Special events program

In 2010, the magazine launched Miller-McCune LIVE, a special events program to bring articles to life through comprehensive debate featuring industry leaders. The first debate--on lobbying--took place in September in Washington, D.C. The second debate--in New York City in November with panelists including Sree Sreenivasan and Rachel Sklar

Rachel Sklar

Rachel Sklar CNN contributor is a lawyer and New York-based media blogger.-Early Years:Sklar is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where she was the Vice-President Communications of the University Students' Council, as well as a regular contributor to the campus newspaper, The Gazette...

--dug into the effects of social media on "real life" and ways to humanize the Internet.