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Moderator:
Jean Kim Chaix, Director of Communications, The Nature
Conservancy, New York
Panelists:
Peter Bull, Producer/Director/Writer, Hot Politics,
Frontline/PBS 2007
Graham Hill , Founder, Treehugger.com
 Peter Bull, Producer/Director/Writer, Hot Politics, Frontline/PBS 2007
Synopsis: Peter Bull wrote and produced a documentary, “Hot
Politics,” about the American politics of global warming for the
PBS Frontline series. The film recounts the early awareness of climate
change by scientist and some politicians in late 1980s and the efforts
of other scientists and politicians - supported by oil and energy companies – to
contradict and silence those claims. Along with political negligence,
there is also media failure to report climate change issues because of
the fundamental inability of most journalists to deal with complex science.
However, films such as Al Gore’s movie, ‘Inconvenient Truth,’ is
a sign of raising awareness and crossing the tipping point to prevent
climate change.
 Graham Hill, Founder, Treehugger.com
Synopsis:
TreeHugger is the largest, most popular daily green online magazine which
provides information on the latest modern and green lifestyle such as
green architecture, fashion, design, alternative energy and transportation,
etc. They use information in a creative way to shift people’s lives
in a greener, more ethical direction. Although a great number of people
are joining the green lifestyle, they still face the challenge to increase
social pressure and make the public cross the bridge from knowing to
doing.
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