TREE NEWS

11th Hour Action Campaign & 11th Hour Campus Tour

Tree has launched the 11th Hour Action Campaign, a social action campaign created to support the growing sustainability movement. The action campaign will tour The 11th Hour to college campuses in 2008-2009. The campaign was created as a program with Global Green USA.
- Action Site

The 11th Hour DVD Release April 8th

Tree Media Group and Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour, a feature-length documentary film on the state of the world and the state of humanity, is now available on DVD. The film premiered in Cannes and was released in the United States by Warner Independent Pictures and internationally by Warner Brothers International.
- Trailer
- Film Site

Tree Joins With The Vanishing of the Bees Directors

Tree is coming on to produce and help complete The Vanishing of the Bees, directed by Maryam Henein and George Langworthy.
- Film Site

Starbucks: Planet Green Game

Tree created Planet Green, an online game on global warming created for Starbucks.
- Play Game

Tree Media and the International Fund for Animal Welfare Mini-Doc

Tree Media and IFAW have recently completed a 5 minute mini-documentary highlighting the organizations international emergency rescue operations. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan and produced by Tree's Harold Linde, the project features teams struggling to save animals from natural and man made disasters across the globe.
   

CSAfrica is Live

Tree's Stephan McGuire has co-created and launched CSAfrica, a consortium of organizations dedicated to sustainable development in Africa.
- Coalition for a Sustainable Africa

Daily Rights Website Hires Tree Media Group

Tree Media is building a Spanish / English language website for legal questions and access to legal information for Lissie Perez of Daily Rights.

OUR MISSION

Media has the power to change the world: it shares our stories, it drives culture, it shapes our lives. Tree Media Group is a production company with a mission to use media to support and sustain civil society while promoting peace through understanding.

Tree Media Group was founded by sisters Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners when the emergence of new technologies allowed for a more democratic dissemination of ideas. Over the last ten years, Tree Media Group has consistently worked on projects that examine global transformation, conflict resolution, care & sustainability, the environment, cultural catalysts and progressive movements.

"Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people can change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has."

--Margaret Mead

Roundtable 18: The 11th Hour LA Screening
Q+A with Directors Leila and Nadia

Early 2008 - Date TBA

Come see The 11th Hour and join the discussion afterward with The 11th Hour Directors Leila and Nadia.  The 11th Hour calls on all of us to take action in the face of our radically changing ecosystems.

Email Holli Gritsko Fajack to get on the list and for updates.

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WORLD NEWS

Aid pours in, but time runs for China quake survivors


Remarkably, relief officials said they had rescued a child buried alive in the ruins of a middle school about 80 hours after the quake struck.

Rescuers struggle to reach isolated Chinese villages


For days, soldiers and rescue workers have hiked through dense mountains and cleared impassable roads to try to get to untold numbers of remote towns that could contribute tens of thousands more bodies to the earthquake death toll.

Crazed cows and toad invasions? Superstitious views on the earthquake


Chinese bloggers have criticized the government for not predicting the deadly earthquake in Sichuan. Some have resorted to old superstitions and beliefs in natural omens.

Many dangers for child survivors of cyclone in Myanmar


At risk of disease, abuse and forced recruitment into the armed forces, many of them orphaned or lost, children are the most vulnerable survivors.

Myanmar raises cyclone toll to 78,000


The government's revised death toll almost doubled, and it also raised the number of missing to 55,917.