Roger Doiron's video places 3rd!

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

>From a news release I got today:
jems

Oct 21, 2008 09:00 ET

User-Generated Video Contest Sends Message to 
Congress and Next President: "Take Action on 
Climate Change"

Brighter Planet and 1Sky Name 4 National Winners 
>From Over 100 Submissions; 60 Second Videos to Be 
Broadcast Nationally

Organizers Encourage Netizens to Share Videos With Communities

MIDDLEBURY, VT and WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - 
October 21, 2008) - The winners of a 
user-generated video contest meant to inspire our 
next President to take bold action on climate 
change were announced this morning at 
<http://www.vimeo.com/climatematters>www.vimeo.com/climatematters. 
The contest was conceived of and sponsored by 
<http://www.brighterplanet.com/>Brighter Planet 
and <http://www.1sky.org/>1Sky, in partnership 
with Vimeo.com which hosted the contest on its 
web platform. Organizers are now asking people to 
extend the impact of this initiative by sharing 
these powerful videos with their online 
communities. More information on how to embed and 
share the videos can be found 
<http://climatematters.brighterplanet.com/help.html>here.

The top four winning entries (there was a tie for 
third place) take on the issue of climate change 
in a variety of ways. First and second place 
entries look at the problem through the eyes of 
children, while the third place entries employ 
stop-motion photography and animation to tell 
different stories. The winning videos are:

-- First - <http://www.vimeo.com/1987114>Climate 
Matters, by Steve Dempsey of Sammamish, WA

-- Second - <http://vimeo.com/1986988>Ask the 
Children by Barbara Lucas of Northville, MI

-- Third - <http://vimeo.com/1987140>Green to 
Blue by Elizabeth Klein of Cincinnati, OH

-- Third - <http://www.vimeo.com/1987223>This 
Lawn is Your Lawn by Roger Doiron of Scarborough, 
ME

Brighter Planet and 1Sky are asking people across 
the county to take a stand on the climate change 
issue by promoting the videos -- and the message 
about climate change -- online and in local 
communities. The videos are set up so that anyone 
can easily embed them on their own blogs, 
homepages or social networks. In addition to 
extending the impact online, people are 
encouraged to take action in their own 
communities by sharing the videos with local 
leaders. Additional ideas for taking action can 
be found at 
<http://brighterplanet.com/>http://brighterplanet.com 
and <http://www.1sky.org/>www.1sky.org.

The winning submissions from the Climate Matters 
video contest will be distributed to all 
presidential nominees and each member of 
Congress. In addition, the videos will be 
broadcast to a potential audience of more than 50 
million viewers around the nation via Link TV, 
FSTV, and online at venues including: 
<http://www.vimeo.com/>www.vimeo.com, 
<http://www.think.mtv.com/>www.think.mtv.com, 
<http://www.joost.com/>www.joost.com, 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/>www.huffingtonpost.com 
and 
<http://www.quarterlife.com/>www.quarterlife.com. 
The winning videos will be showcased at the Green 
Expo in San Francisco next month. And finally, 
the first-place winner will receive a $3,000 
Brighter Planet? Visa® Gift Card; the second and 
third place winners will receive $1,000 and $250 
Brighter Planet Visa Gift Cards respectively.

Judges for the contest include Maggie Gyllenhaal, 
actress; Rory Kennedy, Emmy award-winning 
documentary producer; Tia Lessin, the supervising 
producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for 
Columbine"; Leila and Nadia Conners, the 
producers/directors of "11th Hour"; author Anya 
Kamenetz; David Jenkins, Government Affairs 
Director of Republicans for Environmental 
Protection; Bill Stetson, Producer and 
Environmental Consultant; Gillian Caldwell, 
Campaign Director of 1Sky; and Patti Prairie, CEO 
of Brighter Planet. Full bios for the judges can 
be found 
<http://climatematters.brighterplanet.com/judges.html>here.

Sixteen video finalists were selected from over 
100 submissions based on the greatest number of 
viewer hits. From the narrowed pool of 16 videos, 
judges made their winning selections based 
primarily on the following criteria: 1) 
creativity, 2) coherence of message, 3) potential 
impact of message on political leaders and 4) 
potential to inspire.
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