The Media & Policy Center has received a significant grant to begin work on America's Family Farmers.

Harry Wiland and Dale Bell have received California Greenworks' Environmental Leaders Award for their "...outstanding work in raising awareness for environmental sustainability through the PBS series Edens Lost & Found."

The first in a series of Edens Lost & Found Town Hall Meetings was held in Philadelphia early in 2008, and was broadcast by WHYY (Philadelphia PBS) in April. More details and excerpts from the broadcast are available here.

Harry Wiland and Dale Bell have been elected Ashoka Fellows and Purpose Prize Fellows.

Harry Wiland and Dale Bell win First and Third Prizes in NAAEE Environmental Film Festival.

Harry Wiland is a versatile producer with an Emmy Award-winning career as a television producer/director as well as a new media innovator in the field of educational multimedia courseware. He has produced and directed numerous specials on network, public and cable television, including the Emmy awarded productions Showdown at The Palace, an internationally syndicated special, and Bridge Over Troubled Waters. His documentaries and music specials such as White Gospel and Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends have led him to work with many of America's best known recording artists including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash.

Wiland was the co-founder and former CEO of Leonardo Internet, which developed educational multimedia software. He continues to be active in the new media arena and recently produced a number of distance learning programs for teacher training for Allyn & Bacon and KCET. Additionally he recently completed a six-hour project entitled Change Your Job/Change Your Life for PBS, which included a cross-platform CD-ROM, web site, home video and course manual. He authored a weekly column, Wiland's World, for www.freeagent.com.

Wiland is a director member of the Directors Guild of America, and he holds an M.F.A. in film from Columbia University. With his partner Dale Bell, he was Executive Producer/Director/Writer of the award-winning And Thou Shalt Honor… a 2-hour special PBS broadcast on family caregiving, hosted by Joe Mantegna. ATSH was named by PBS to be a "special program of note," and was additionally honored as October's Program Pick of the Month (2002). The telecast was supported by a nationwide community grassroots outreach and publicity campaign, an interactive web site, and companion book, published by Rodale Inc., with foreword by Rosalynn Carter.