The goal of this Website is to educate, to enlighten, and to engage, through a confluence of the arts, technology, and multi-media communication.
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“We have been negligent in our forgettings, not only about the Shenandoah, but about the waters that sustain us in all ways.”
Brother Benedict Simmonds,
Monk of Holy Cross Abbey
2009-2010 Project Goals
The Downstream Project is proud to announce
Shenandoah EcoVenture 2009.
This project, a major goal for 2009 has become a reality; and we are pleased to have engaged the faculty and students of Shenandoah University in this inaugural Downstream Project EcoVenture. This exciting, interactive event will open our combined missions—and this outdoor learning adventure—to anyone with a computer. Five qualified students and one professor from Shenandoah University will join The Downstream Project field crew as mountains, trails, and the Shenandoah River become our classroom. Along the way we will involve other professors and experts from a wide range of fields: zoologists, conservationists, climate experts, park rangers, arborists, historians, botanists, riverkeepers, water quality experts—and the list keeps growing. We will use the latest in Web-based technologies—including live video feeds, Webcasts, online GPS tracking—to chronicle our adventures in “real time”. Anyone with access to the Internet can share in this compelling and educational EcoVenture.
Sponsorships and Participation
We are actively seeking sponsors and participation from a variety of groups and organizations to support the Shenandoah EcoVenture 2009, which will involve outfitting the team for outdoor learning, Appalachian Trail hiking, and Shenandoah River paddling.
>> Read more about "EcoVenture 2009" here…
Our first goal for 2009 has already been accomplished, before your very eyes: the launching of The Downstream Project Website, the communications portal for everything we do. We want this Website to be very much “of the moment”—we will be adding content continually as The Project grows. We encourage you to send your input, critiques, and recommendations for improving the site to webmaster@thedownstreamproject.org. And be sure to subscribe to the TDP Blog and stay up-to-date on all that’s happening, both upstream and downstream.
FinallIy, in the works is a new documentary film following the success of "Shenandoah:Voices of the River". We will pattern this film on the same model; that is, to bring the highest production values and artistic creativity to environmental education. We believe this to be the most effective means of communicating our message. People remember quality! Segments of this next documentary are in process now as George Patterson and crew capture regional stories on sustainability and environmental issues affecting the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Downstream Website will feature previews of these short stories as they are completed and will ultimately be combined into our next feature length documentary for release in 2010.
