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BESIDE publishes two magazines and one journal per year. Each issue brings together philosophers, artists, entrepreneurs, farmers, scientists and adventurers around one compelling question. If you want to be empowered with compelling knowledge, untold stories, and impactful conversations at the crossroads of nature and culture—read us.

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Accolades

Stack Magazine Awards, Nomination for Best use of photography, 2019 Art Direction Grand Prix, Canadian Magazine Awards, 2019 Grafika Award, 2017

Past contributors include:

Chris Burkard, photographer
Yvon Chouinard, founder Patagonia
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Indigenous leader
Dave Courchene, Indigenous leader
Matthieu Dugal, science journalist
Dan O’Brien, farmer, falconer and author
Shelma Jun, climber and founder, Flash Foxy
Ellen MacArthur, sailor and entrepreneur
Sarain Fox, activist
Bernie Krause, sound ecologist
Michael Pollan, author
Liz Plank, journalist, Vox
Chelsea Vowel, fiction author

A note on advertising

BESIDE Magazine is free of traditional advertising, with the exception of a few select sponsored articles developed with carefully chosen partners whose values and vision we admire.

Our magazine is printed in Quebec on Rolland Enviro paper, a 100 per cent post-consumer paper.

Latest Issue

What risks are we willing to bear?

Featuring

Yoshua Bengio
Autumn Peltier
Pat Kane
Colombe St-Pierre
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
Pieter Hug
And many more...

Issue 07, In stores November 26, 2019

At every point in our lives, we’re tasked with making brave, often uncomfortable, decisions to fulfill our personal, social, and environmental aspirations: perhaps to live off the grid, open a gourmet restaurant in the middle of nowhere, stay put in spite  of the coming floods, or defend our convictions at all costs. What risks are we willing to bear? Issue 07 presents the ideas and intimate narratives behind the choices  we make—and those we’re longing to make—to build a different world.

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Do you mostly experience nature online, or in real life?

Our modern lives are increasingly marked by a tension between connection and disconnection, between new technologies and nature. How can we make these necessary extremes meet? Green Screen, the inaugural title of our BESIDE Journals, casts a curious, comical, and commonsense gaze upon this new reality—ours to embrace and to reinvent.

DISCOVER OUR FIRST JOURNAL