BlinkWorks Creates Great Training Videos for Minnesota

Although not within the Great Rivers Chapter boundaries, there are some great IECA friends and colleagues "Up North" in Minnesota. Many of those IECA brethren were instrumental in putting together a great set of training & educational videos targeting various state and municipal parks & recreation departments focusing on stormwater-related issues. Created by James Swirsky and his BlinkWorks company (DirtTime TV ring a bell, anyone?), with help from a ton of Minnesota folks, they created some really smart, light-hearted, and funny stuff that hits the mark perfectly.

Here's the prestigious (and quite fictitious) "Minnesota Parks & Recreation Training Academy" video on Rain Garden Maintenance, made for the Washington County, MN Soil & Water Conservation District in Stillwater (Catch District manager/IECA Instructor Jay Riggs in his on-screen debut, robbed of his hot dog!). Pure Genius.

I've always marveled at how difficult it can be sometimes to make this kind of stuff fresh and exciting to the layperson. This is as close as I've seen to hitting that mark. Kudos to all involved!

Parks & Recreation - Raingarden Maintenance from BlinkWorks -James Swirsky on Vimeo.