About Life Media

Life Media is an independently-owned, environmentally conscious multimedia information company. We are dedicated to providing inspiration and information for reinventing how we live...in our families and in our communities. Our goal is to provide editorially independent, quality products and a high level of service and integrity, in a way that minimizes our ecological footprint and respects all the inhabitants of Mother Earth.

We are a Canadian based company with a worldwide audience. Our roots reach back to 1976 when Rolf Priesnitz launched The Alternate Press to publish Natural Life Magazine – one of the original natural family living magazines. His partner Wendy soon joined him as editor. Take a look back at some early back issues of Natural Life Magazine.

Along the way, the company name was updated to Life Media, with The Alternate Press continuing as its book publishing imprint.

The company has won a number of awards, including an Outstanding Media Contribution Award for Natural Life Magazine's balanced environmental reporting.

One of the hallmarks of our work has been anticipation of and leadership in pioneering new trends. So In 1994, the company put Natural Life Magazine on the world wide web (although it and The Home Business Advocate had been available to libraries over the Internet by data pack for a number of years prior to that), and a major commitment was made to electronic publishing.

In 2002, Life Media embraced its readers' emerging interests by spinning off separate subscriber-supported magazines. The first of these, Life Learning Magazine, was launched in March of 2002. Natural Child Magazine was launched in 2008, and Child's Play Magazine was launched in 2015. They have all since become free websites providing a wealth of information on their respective topics.

And so Life Media continues to provide information about natural family living to people around the world, and perhaps beyond.