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Live Earth

About Me

The Live Earth tree is a new project by MSN UK running in conjunction with the Live Earth concerts to promote green, environmentally friendly activities.

From the beginning of July You will be invited to draw a leaf on your screen using the special tools provided and to make a pledge to do something green. Your leaf will then be placed on the tree with the other members of the public and the tree will grow leaf by leaf as more people make pledges.

You will be able to navigate around the tree and the tree can then be searched and filtered to show the pledges made by name, age country and type of pledge. The tree will become a graphical representation of the charitable activities of a global network and a way of visualising societies efforts to protect the environement.

The tree will be availible to make pledges from the beginning of July at www.liveearthtree.com (To learn more about the project visit http://liveearthtree.spaces.live.com where you can also find out how to make your pledge!)

Dont forget to leave your comments and check back later for updates!

The above video is an early trial of the tree growing. Lines and squares are used to represent the branches and leaves. You can get a good impression of how the tree will grow itself from the database of everyones pledges once the tree goes live next month.

(Many thanks to Mike Industries for MySpace layout and inspiration.)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

The Beastie Boys, Madonna, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Duran Duran, Genesis, The Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol, Black Eyed Peas

My Blog

500 leaves

The tree has reached its first major milestone with over 500 pledges! Help us get to the next milestone of 5000 by drawing your leaf and telling your friends to do one too!
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:23:00 GMT

Live Earth Tree Launch

The tree is finally ready! To get involved with the campaign visit www.liveearthtree.com, draw your leaf and make your pledge! Each leaf on the tree represents individuals pledges to help save the pla...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:27:00 GMT

Live Development Trial

Good news, the test site is up for public viewing!   This is the first example of data modelling, allowing us to visualise the (dummy) pledge database graphically.   The leaves shown are an...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:24:00 GMT

Green Pledges

We are compiling a list of green pledges for members of the public to choose from when the tree site goes live. We would appreciate any suggestions you have and the best ones will make it onto the fi...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:50:00 GMT

Making progress...

We've just got all the sort and filter options working correctly on the test site, meaning you can shape the tree by Name, Age, Location, Gender and Pledge! There are still a few bugs though as you ne...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:05:00 GMT

How the Live Earth Tree was grown

An interview with the development team behind the Live Earth Tree, including development shots.
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:50:00 GMT

Tree Growing - early trial


Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:51:00 GMT

Finishing Touches

The Live Earth tree is a social project where members of the public can draw a leaf for the tree and make an environmentally friendly pledge. It's not live yet, as the finishing touches are still...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:18:00 GMT