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Seventh Generation and TreeHugger
present Convenient Truths: A Green Video Contest.

And the winners are...…

Seventh Generation and TreeHugger asked for your solutions to climate change. With 130+ entries we've finally got our winners! Check them out here and complete your green fix by subscribing to our newsletter.
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For the last four and half months, we've encouraged you to both reduce your personal carbon footprint, and to participate in Treehugger and Seventh Generation's Convenient Truths video contest. Today, we're pleased to wrap up the contest by announcing the winners. The Top Ten finalists were chosen by you and our expert panel of judges, and the Grand, second and third place prize winners were chosen by guest judge Ed Begley, Jr. In addition to prize packages described below, each winner's video will be featured on a DVD by Ironweeds Films, and also showcased at the Weather Channel's climate change site, One Degree.

The winners of the Treehugger and Seventh Generation Convenient Truths contest are:

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tabber.gifGrand Prize Winner: Little Guy (Make A Start) Music Video


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One family's response to the need to recycle, reuse and reduce their impact on the plant--all set to a driving beat.
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tabber.gifSecond Prize Winner: Bear Necessities


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A chilling plan.
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tabber.gifThird Prize Winner: Change A Light Bulb


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How many people does it take to make a difference?

A production of Tamarack Media. Concept by Florence Miller.
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tabber.gifWinner: Better Late Than Never


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Global Warming and environmental pollution are not new problems - and most of the solutions aren't new either. This inconvenient truth has been around for a long time and these voices from the past are here to tell us what we can do to make the world a cleaner, greener place. Every little step moves us forward but it requires personal action. Remember, "every time history repeats itself the price goes up".

Made from 100% recycled material. All footage and audio are from the public domain.

Special Thanks:

Prelinger Archives

NARA Department of the Interior

Newgrounds Audio Portal

SilentSeraph

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tabber.gifWinner: Chickens Enlighten, Humans Change, World Improves


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We are devotees to the cult of CFLs. The numbers add up for everyone, whether or not someone is an environmentalist or on any particular side of a spectrum of beliefs, and it's such a supremely simple path to improvement that fits nicely within the larger issues and solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We put this video together for the Convenient Truths contest over the past few weeks, and hope you enjoy it.
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tabber.gifWinner: Footprints


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Footprints aims to inspire a shift in daily living and raise consciousness about the impact of our individual carbon footprints. Scenic timelapse imagery, from the Grand Canyon to California's coasts, is intertwined with a couple's journey that begins with a calculation of their own annual CO2 emissions.
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tabber.gifWinner: Reality in the Self-Checkout Lane


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A quirky self-checkout lane tells a shopper the true costs of what he's buying.
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tabber.gifWinner: Cool Notebooks For A Hot Planet


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A mini-documentary describing the Whitman College paper campaign's project to make notebooks out of re-used paper and cereal boxes. The notebooks reduce waste before its recycled, require less energy to produce and transport, and have a smaller carbon footprint than conventional notebooks (both recycled and non-recycled). The video shows the few easy steps it takes to make a notebook in your own community. Enjoy!
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tabber.gifWinner: I Am A Climate Activist


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What can you do that will really make a difference? How many polar bears does it take to fill Benaroya Hall? Wanna see where the new tideline will be if we don't do something about the climate crisis? It's all here. Phil Mitchell, real-life Climate Activist and founder of 2People.org offers his experiences and insight in this spunky, information-dense two minutes of real solutions. Produced by 2People in association with GALLIxSEE::media::. Directed and animated by Amy Burgess
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tabber.gifWinner: Families Fight Back


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Families Fight Back is about simple ways that families can conserve energy, reduce waste, and join the growing effort to beat global warming. This film starts with our own family, but its not just about us. It's about our friends, community and country working together for a sustainable future. Families Fight Back was shot, in spurts, over one weekend and edited in about a day. We made it for the Treehugger.com Convenient Truths: A GreenVideo Contest because we were dazzled and inspired by the range of submissions (and we've seen them all!). If people could feel the energy the filmmakers putinto these projects, our planet would be a much better and safer place. Thanks for watching...our check out our companion website at http://familiesfightback.org
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