Last Fall we participated in the 2nd Annual United Nations Youth Film Festival and Best Buy gave us the Flip Cameras to Film the LA River and create a short film to go to the General Assembly.  Suddenly the work that we had done in schools since 1999 came alive at Toad's Gate in Studio City and downtown with the Downtown LA Youth Cultural Center.  Crossroads nonpublic high school in Van Nuys, Westchester Lutheran School, Theta Sound in Burbank, The Dream Project, Planetary Transformation, and the California Digital Studio Partnership (DASP) came together with school administrators, parents, and friends and brought River Flowing to the world and the World Around Me to the San Gabriel, Rio Honda, Santa Ana, and LA Riverbank inhabitants.  Stormwater put us on their Facebook page and Orange County kids sang for the first time River Flowing as a Coast Steward Anthem.

We began to work with UNA-UN Pasadena, the Water Resource Institute, American Ground Water Trust, the Watershed Authority and other eco-community leaders with visionary planning like the Economic Alliance and the Wrap Award winner, Remo Drums.

We linked Words, Watersheds, and Wonder.  Check out www.waterbuddyweb.blogspot.com to see and hear the MDG Youth Film Festival entry 2010.  The kids changed River Flowing to a rap song.  What was once a children's album recommended for every home by Publishers Weekly was now a vibrant combination of dancers, singers, players, and the LA River itself flowing by wire link fences and wending its way to connect to other rivers and tributaries even one that doesn't flow part of the year....the Santa Ana.  And now we are back again, excited by Jessica Baron's new Green Songbook just released by Alfred Music, and back in NYC at the show, next to Pete Seeger's beloved Hudson River at the Javits.