From our friends at Eden Reforestation Projects:

This year we have a challenge to make your Holidays more eco-friendly!

We are encouraging Christmas tree shoppers to match the price of their Christmas tree with a donation to ERP!

The average American spends just about $10 per foot for a top of the line tenanbaum, and most trees are around 6 feet. That’s a $60 tree. So, if you spend $60 on a Christmas tree this year, we’re asking that you give a matching donation of $60 to Eden Reforestation Projects.

A $60 matching donation = 600 trees in Ethiopia and Madagascar!

Want to see what 600 trees looks like?
Here is a pdf visual.

Join our Trees for Trees challenge!
Every $10 donation plants 100 trees!

If 1,000 people participated (with an average matching $60 trees for trees gift)
We can plant 60,000 trees this Christmas!

To join the challenge, DONATE HERE.

We did a shoot this past weekend at Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row in Los Angeles during their big Thanksgiving feast. They cooked 450 turkeys for the event. It was a pretty cool event. The video will come out next year around Thanksgiving (yes, 12 months from now. a long time.). Here are some pics.

Notice how brent and dave are both using their "tools of the trade"

Brent is in there somewhere. So is Andre Ethier from the Dodgers.

We just released a new video for the Los Angeles Union Rescue Mission. This was shot last year during the Christmas season and is about a homeless woman and her child searching for hope during Christmas.

Serwa | Stories from Skid Row from Union Rescue Mission on Vimeo.

This is the latest video in our Stories from Skid Row documentary series. More can be found at www.urm.org/stories.

We are currently in post production on four more short stories of lives being changed at Union Rescue Mission.  Be sure to check out some of the other videos we have done for URM at www.urm.org/stories.