Calming the Waters

A documentary film about reaching everyone
in the cause of environmental protection.
Even the skeptics.

A documentary film about reaching everyone
in the cause of environmental protection.
Even the skeptics.


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Barbara Mills • June 29, 2019

Poetry and Paintings

Jim and Isabelle Poetry Show and Tell

Jim is a man of many facets. On one hand, he is a tough environmental lawyer...and on the other a poet, with a warm love of the natural world: its birds, habitats, and waters. As a followup to an earlier book of his verse with illustrations by Isabelle Scurry Chapman, Jim and Isabelle have partnered on Hill Country Birds and Waters. The new book was presented at Brazos Bookstore on June 29th to a standing room only crowd and our film crew was there to record the event.

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Saved by bald eagles
A Second interview with Jim Blackburn
By Jeffrey Mills March 4, 2024
Jim looks forward, considering his recent successes.
Photo of Douglas Brinkley
By Jeffrey Mills January 8, 2024
Interview of Douglas Brinkley for "Calming The Waters"
By Jeffrey Mills January 7, 2024
The Earth Church that resides on the ocean’s edge 
By Jeffrey Mills December 19, 2022
Bill Balboa leads the tour
Peter Byck
By Jeffrey Mills December 10, 2022
We Meet the Carbon Cowboy
By Jeffrey Mills December 8, 2022
Two weeks of shooting the beautiful and wild Texas coast
By Jeffrey Mills December 6, 2022
Jim Recounts His Journey
Floating on Armand Bayou
By Jeffrey Mills August 25, 2022
Test footage from the kayak rig
Judge Jack
By Jeffrey Mills May 15, 2022
Judge speaks about Jim Blackburn's quest to protect freshwater inflows
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