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

Shiite militias seize Beirut neighborhoods


Pro-government fighters have mostly abandoned their posts and handed their weapons over to the Shiite militias.

Shiite gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods


Security officials said that 11 people were killed as Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of large areas of Beirut's Muslim sector Friday.

Clashes between Shiites and Sunnis intensify in Beirut


Clashes escalated after Hezbollah's leader said the government had declared war by threatening to shut down the group's private telephone network.

Race over or not, Obama takes a victory lap


Senator Barack Obama made a very public return to the Capitol, while behind the scenes there were new talks between Obama and the party leadership.

Obama picks up 3 more superdelegates


Barack Obama's sprint to the Democratic nomination received another boost Friday as three more superdelegates pledged their support.