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Barbara Pyle was Corporate Vice President of Environmental Policy for Turner Broadcasting
System (TBS, Inc.), CNN's Environment Editor for 20 years. She remains Executive Producer of People Count. She joined TBS in 1980 and pioneered environmental programming. Her goal
is to make critical, global issues understandable and accessible to the widest possible audience. She has produced 55 films that have won over 100 awards. She now has the
distribution rights to these films. Twelve of these films were recently selected by the TELLY Awards as Golden Classics; that is, considered to be among the best of the best Television
production over the last twenty-five years. See www.peoplecountTv.com. In 2002, Pyle updated One Child - One Voice for the United Nations World Summit on
Sustainable Development. It was sent via satellite all over the world eight times. Hundreds of television stations broadcast this compelling call by children from around the world to protect
and restore the earth. It launched another Tree of Life for the World Summit in Johannesburg. Kids Against Pollution have started a campaign to keep the Tree alive. They are now touring the Tree and calling their new campaign Tree of Life: Messages of Sustainable Development,
Voice of Johannesburg. See www.earthsecure.org. To date, One Child - One Voice has been honored with almost forty awards. In 2004, Pyle repackaged the film as an Earth Day/World Environment Day Special and it has
been sent to thousands of television stations in North and South America as a public service. Its message is "Vote for the Earth." In 1997, Barbara Pyle received the world's most prestigious environmental honor, the UNEP
Sasakawa Environment Prize. She is the only member of the media to receive this award, usually reserved for scientists. Past recipients include Chico Mendes, Lester Brown and Paul
and Anne Ehrlich. She used the award money to create The Barbara Pyle Foundation. Pyle's 35 part series on environmental and social issues, People Count, aired domestically on
CNN and the TBS Superstation, and internationally on CNN International. To extend the audience further, People Count Segments are expanded to half hour versions and distributed
free through an international distribution program that reaches broadcasters in over 180 countries with a potential viewing audience of two billion. The 1992 production of One Child - One Voice was the centerpiece of the Save the Earth media campaign. She created an unprecedented global collaboration between TBS, National
Geographic Explorer, National Audubon Society, The Cousteau Society, Network Earth, Turner Publishing, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, cable operators and numerous grassroots
environmental organizations. The film initiated a letter-writing campaign in support of the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The film was distributed to over 100 countries
and more than one million 'leaf postcards' were received from around the world for the Tree of Life in Rio. In 1987, Pyle created a network of international television stations for her film Day of Five Billion. Over 80 countries broadcast this award-winning documentary on July 11, the symbolic
day the world's population reached five billion. In 1989, Without Borders expanded that network to 127 countries. She used that network of broadcasters to launch CNN's World's Report. Both programs were co-productions with the United Nations Population Fund and
reached a tremendous global audience through satellite grants from Intelsat. She has become a world leader in the international distribution of free environmental and social programming. In 1988, Pyle was named one of the first United Nations Global 500 Laureates "for outstanding achievements in protecting and improving the environment." She has been awarded dozens of
personal honors and is a popular speaker on environmental issues. Recently, she was selected as one of only five Imminent Persons by the United Nations to judge the UN's BEST PRACTICES DUBAI AWARD, given every two years to 20 cities in a global competition based
upon the merits of their innovative sustainability projects. From 1989 to 1996, Pyle served as Executive Producer of Captain Planet and the Planeteers;
the world's first animated action adventure series that makes environmental and social issues understandable by children. Its 113 episodes are currently being broadcast on the Cartoon
Network in the US and around the world. Since 1990, it has been broadcast in over 100 countries. She founded and was Chairman of the Board of the Captain Planet Foundation, which provides grants to children's grassroots environmental projects. In 1981, Pyle launched regular coverage of environmental issues on CNN. By the end of the
'80's, she had founded Earth Matters, CNN's daily environmental news show, which became weekly. Pyle represented Time Warner as the Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for
Sustainable Development, a coalition of 125 multi-national companies working on sustainability issues in business. She represents Ted Turner on the Board of the Environmental Media
Association in Los Angeles whose mission is to get environmental messages onto prime time television. She was an Honorary Board member of The Bellagio Forum, a global think-tank of
foundations that focuses on sustainability and environmental issues created by the Rockefeller Foundation. Pyle has served as a Board member of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) North
American Advisory Board and The United States Committee for United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She currently serves on the Boards of Counterpart International, The Center
of Information and Communication of the Environment of North America (CICEANA) and the Together Foundation. She often participates in global think tanks on the environment. She
specializes in the educational uses of television, climate change, women's and population issues, and poverty eradication. Prior to joining TBS in 1980, Pyle worked as a photojournalist and aerial photographer. She
produced photo essays for NBC News, both nationally and locally in New York. She has three Time Magazine covers to her credit and has been a major contributor to ten books. She has
worked as a photojournalist and filmmaker in over 100 countries. Pyle studied at King's College, England and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Baccalaureate
from Tulane University where she was named Outstanding Student of Philosophy and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. In 1992, Newcomb College honored her as Alumnae of the Year. She
earned a Master's Degree in Philosophy and Logic at New York University. Pyle was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. For the past 25 years, photojournalist and filmmaker Barbara Pyle has journeyed the world to
capture the human spirit. Cast your eyes on the people whose individual stories and triumphs inspired the PEOPLE COUNT series by clicking
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Barbara Pyle
Barbara Pyle was Corporate Vice President of Environmental Policy for Turner Broadcasting System (TBS, Inc.), CNN's Environment Editor for 20 years. She remains Executive Producer of People Count. She joined TBS in 1980 and pioneered environmental programming. Her goal is to make critical, global issues understandable and accessible to the widest possible audience. She has produced 55 films that have won over 100 awards. She now has the distribution rights to these films. Twelve of these films were recently selected by the TELLY Awards as Golden Classics; that is, considered to be among the best of the best Television production over the last twenty-five years. See www.peoplecountTv.com.
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