Green Daily

Yesterday Disney announced a new green initiative -- just in time for Earth Day. But while some organizations are "going green" by recycling paper or planting trees, the entertainment mega-giant is taking being eco-friendly one step further -- by creating an entirely new, green-focused company. Called Disneynature, the new production banner promises to "go to the ends of the earth to produce major big screen nature documentaries."

If the above trailer is any indication, this is exciting news for nature lovers everywhere. The preview is for Earth, the first feature-length Disneynature film, set to appear in theaters on Earth Day 2009. Directed by Alastair Fothergill, (whose credits include the Emmy and Peabody award-winning Planet Earth series and The Blue Planet), the new documentary will be narrated by the legendary James Earl Jones, and will "take moviegoers on an extraordinary tour of our home planet as it's never been seen before." (BTW, if you like Fothergill's work on Planet Earth, we're giving away DVD set of this fantastic series today.)

Here's the short list of other projects on the agenda, as outlined in the press release announcing Disneynature: