The Cloud Garden

After months of trying to get the image from the South West Ridge of Ama Dablam printed, mounted and hung it is finally done.  Mickey from Planet Granite and I put the final touches on the big photo and now its on the wall with a little description of what it is and where it was taken.  I also listed the adventurerefugee.com website in hopes of stirring up some work and or projects in the field.  

The next step for me is to find part or full-time work to fill in the money gap and start working hard to get the Center for Environmental Media off of the ground.  I have circulated an email containing the proposed mission statement to a few hearty souls and have honestly gotten mixed answers back but that is not discuraging me from helping the world some how through service to the high meaning in life.  

Below I have attach the mission statement, comment if you will.  Or even just to let me know people are reading.  

Thanks james

Our mission at Center for Environmental Journalism (CEJ) is to provide media production hardware and education for the gathering and distribution of environmental multi-media by grassroots organizations in remote or controlled environments. By providing these recourses to local journalist and activists the across the world at large we will benefit from the insight into of dramatically impacted and socially charged global communities around the earth.

Furthermore, it it’s the goal of CEJ to provide not onlymore than production services, we also but to plan to develop a website that encompasses not just the media collected from these impacted areas but also to help organize these motivated story tellers through forums and online databases. By providing local and regional journalists and activists with camcorder and audio collection devises that have an easily transportable hard disc (SD Cards) that can be sent back to CEJ for post-production .
Through this, direct to the activist scenario, we have provided the power to the people that need it most, “media agents.” It seems as though finding the right people to gather the media is large task, however, the world, especially people in these impacted areas such as the Amazon River Basin and rain forests around the globe, Fisherman and mountaineers alike, have a story to tell and are trying to find ways to expose both atrocities and impacts of human civilization on the environment around them. CEJ is here to empower them and catalog these stories from these first hand accounts.
Fundraising will also be done on the website and media kits will be awarded and sent to those that have a story to tell. The media kits will be low cost but will be able to produce high quality, slide show ready, media so that CEJ can go on the road and champion the storytelling and grassroots nature of the media collected by locals for the world at large.