Water Blues, Green Solutions Project Logo
Documenting the quiet revolution that's using strategies borrowed from the natural world to protect America's clean water.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency anticipates that, by 2014, thirty-six states will face local, regional or statewide water shortages. With the demand for water growing and infrastructure crumbling, America has an urgent need for better water management.

Water Blues, Green Solutions looks at a promising new approach: using green infrastructure solutions—systems inspired by the natural world.

Components

  • Public television broadcast
    Nationwide broadcast of a full-length documentary coupled with community-based outreach and education. Capitalizing on partnerships and the network of local PBS stations, local outreach initiatives will be supported at the community level
  • On-line outreach
    Media will be designed and purposed for delivery on-line and by mobile platforms through social media applications, with a robust website as core
  • Mobile media players
    Project design intentionally allows the breakdown of media into discreet short-story elements for distribution via mobile players, iPad, cellphone, etc
  • Higher education learning modules
    The short-story design allows media incorporation into both credit and non-credit courses on water, landscape architecture, civil engineering
  • K-12 teaching tools
    A library of digital learning objects distributed for secondary education
  • Story catalog
    A library of visual assets and stories broadly available for use by educators, advocates, and the interested public; available on the website

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Outreach Collaborators

  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • American Society of Landscape Architects
  • US Botanic Garden
  • Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center
  • Clean Water America Alliance
  • Ecological Society of America
  • US Green Building Council
  • American Rivers
  • US Environmental Protection Agency
  • ICMA
  • Stroud Water Research Center
  • Sustainable Sites Initiative™

Funders

Major Funding
  • Colcom Foundation
Additional Funding
  • National Association of Clean Water Agencies Logo
  • Park Foundation Logo

We seek additional funding for this project. Please contact Cynthia Berger, 814.863.6225 or cberger@psu.edu for more details.

Contact

Cynthia Berger

Project Manager
814.863.6225
cberger@psu.edu

Tom Keiter

Executive Producer
814.863.9381
tek2@psu.edu

Project Overview