The Film
Calming the Waters is a feature length documentary in production about Jim and his ideas for protecting the environment. The film follows Jim's book, A Texas Plan for the Texas Coast, as a blueprint for presentation of his remarkable and pragmatic ideas to convince Texans, not often known for being "green," to become champions for the natural world. Equally important is the potential for the tools he advocates to have an impact outside the Lone Star State. He frequently observes, "If it can work in Texas, it can work anywhere."
Follow our Production progress here.
Our Audience
Jim's approach to the environment is a breath of fresh air—a rare meeting of polarized minds. This documentary will bring something of interest to policy wonks, environmentalists, urban planners, farmers, ranchers, industrialists, and politicians. We will accompany Jim on a voyage through the Texas tidelands, some of the most unique and beautiful habitats in the country.
The Players
Here are some of the individuals who have currently agreed to contribute their thoughts to the film.
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Andy Sansom - Executive Director The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment
Ann Hamilton - TAP member & Former Environmental Grant Manager for Houston Endowment
George Archibald - Co-founder International Crane Foundation
Bill West - Former GBRA General Manager
Ecotourism/Ecoplay
Elizabeth Winston Jones - Lone Star Coastal Alliance
Victor Emanuel - Founder of Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
Richard Gibbons - Conservation Director Houston Audubon
Sally Crofutt - Manager, Fennessey Ranch
Debralee Rodriguez- Executive Director Valley Land Fund
Ecoservices
Adam Davis - Director Ecosystem Investment Partners
Peter Byck - Film Producer and Professor of Sustainability at Arizona State University
Henk Mooiweer - Rice Professor of Chemistry and Consultant at Innovenate LLC
Spirituality
Katharine Hayhoe - Climate Scientist/Evangelical Christian/Public Speaker
The Rev. Carla V Pryne – Episcopal Priest and
Co-Founder of Earth Ministry
Friends of Nature
Stephen Harrigan - Texas Monthly Writer, Author
Mark Rose- Former LCRA Director, natural resources consultant
Al Garrison- Fishing Guide
and of course...Jim Blackburn and Garland Kerr
The Places
Galveston Bay
Christmas Bay
Matagorda Bay
San Antonio Bay and the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Nature and Birding Center Sites in South Texas
Help us tell this Story
Join us to bring this exciting film to PBS and to Texans. Your tax-deductible donations will help put our crews in the field to record this remarkable story of a brilliant mind with a plan to reach all in the cause of environmental protection.
For more information:
Jeffrey Mills
Documentary Alliance 713.203.6677
jmills@documentaryalliance.org
