Mr. Eco’s Decades Of Change
Mr. Eco’s Decades of Change is a long-form documentary highlighting 10 locations around the world and how they change over time. We are revisiting the same areas every 5-10 years to show how climate/social change has impacted the wildlife/people in these areas. We are telling the story of these areas through the stories of people working on conservation efforts locally.
Host: Brett “Mr. Eco” Edwards
Brett believes monumental change begins with youth and combined his passions for hip-hop and sustainability to environmental rap superhero Mr. Eco. Mr. Eco uses music to educate and empower students to be EcoHeroes who know their local actions impact animals and ecosystems globally. The “EcoHero Show” he created has been performed for more than 2,000 elementary schools in 6 countries reaching over 1 million students. Shows have been sponsored by more than 120 cities and counties. Find out more about him and see his music videos on his YouTube channel which has 3 million views and 20k subscribers.
Producer: Marthe Olsen
Marthe Olsen is a creative and free spirit who is on a mission to make sustainability easy and affordable for everyone. She is the creator of Spain’s’ first cloth diaper library. Through modern reusable diapers, she’s helping parents across Spain to reduce more than 1 tonne of waste per household. Juggling between the cloth diaper library, her own zero-waste shop, and two little ones at home, she is trying to create a more sustainable planet for her children to grow up in.
Originally from Norway, she was eager to see how other cultures across the planet were living from a very young age. After living a nomadic life for almost a decade, she was exposed to several cultures and indulged herself in remote villages in every corner of the world. This became the foundation for her eco-mindset and has inspired her to raise her voice for sustainability. She believes that by acting locally we can think globally, and indeed take better care of Mother Earth.
Lead Videographer: Brian Christ
Brian started his video production business in 2010 as Brian Christ Films. Over the last 10 years his film, photo, and video business has expanded into Wild Road Films.
Based in the Bay Area, he has traveled to over 10 countries creating powerful video content. Merging Brian’s passion for video production, story telling, travel, and the great outdoors, WILD ROAD FILMS creates high quality video brand messaging with stories that last a lifetime.
Brian has worked with MTV, Facebook, Toyota, Disney, Amazon, Clorox, HP, Stanford, True Botanicals to name a few as well as Mr. Eco for 8+ years.
You can find out more about him here.
Where:When:What
Amboseli Kenya:
Filmed November 2021
Focused on the work of Big Life https://biglife.org and their efforts to preserve and protect 1.6 million acres acres of wilderness in the Amboseli-Tsavo-Kilimanjaro ecosystem of East Africa, Big Life partners with local communities to protect nature for the benefit of all.
Central Valley California:
Filming May 2023
Focusing on food production in the central valley which provides 25% of the food in the US and how extreme weather events put that in jeopardy. Also highlighting fires and bark beetles in the Sierra Nevadas.
Miami + Everglades:
Filming June 2023
Miami is projected to have massive sea level rise impact their city by mid century. We are going to showcase how the city is dealing with that as well as the invasive species of burmese pythons and the health of the everglades. The pythons are an invasive species who have taken over the everglades and grow up to 20 feet and have no natural predators. The government pays people to hunt them, we are going to meet those people!
Brazil, Sao Luis + Manaus Area:
The Mangroves of Sao Luis are home to many migratory bird species and also important for coastal ecosystems and regulating tides etc. Also, we will go to the Amazon rainforest to look at illegal deforestation for cattle and also visit some regenerative cattle farms in Brazil.
Svalbard, Norway :
The World Seed Bank and a lot of polar bears! The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world. This provides security of the world’s food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, disease and natural disasters. We will learn about it from people who work there as well as focus on polar bear’s health on the island and glacial melt overtime.
Benissa, Spain:
Filming Late July – Early August 2023:
Marthe our producer lives there and has started a reusable diaper business. She is the creator of Spain’s’ first cloth diaper library. Through modern reusable diapers, she’s helping parents across Spain to reduce more than 1 tonne of waste per household. We will focus on her and her families efforts to be sustainable. We are also filming other story lines in spain around wildlife conservation that will be added later.
Assam, India:
The “Forest Man” Jadav Payeng will be featured who literally planed a forest by himself over decades that is now home to Bengal Tigers, Indian Rhino’s and migrating elephants.
Dhaka + Sunderbans Bangladesh:
This episode will focus on Climate refugees living in Slums of Dhaka and highlight the beautiful islands/coastal territories they come from that are being destroyed due to sea level rise and extreme floods.
Borneo
We are going to focus on palm oil plantations, rainforest deforestation of Orangutan habitat as well as sea turtle conservation efforts.
Western Colorado/Yellowstone:
Colorado is reintroducing wolves in the Western Rocky Mountains in 2024. It is a very controversial subject between ranchers and environmentalists. The vote barely passed and was overwhelmingly passed by voters in urban areas far from the wolves. Yellowstone successfully reintroduced wolves in the 90’s which has greatly benefited the ecosystem but also provided problems with ranchers.
A Few Brief Examples Storylines Past Filming In Kenya
A Few Brief Examples Storylines Past Filming In Kenya
Richard Bonham Director of Big Life: Richard gave us full access to all operations of Big Life which he co-founded with Nick Brandt in 2010. He has been working on conservation efforts since the 80’s in the areas near and around the Amboseli ecosystem. We interviewed him at his house which is literally open to the wilderness of the bush of Africa, where he has had visitors in his living room such as Hyenas and leopards and elephants who drink water from his swimming pool.
Daniel Ole Sambu Predator Protection Program Coordinator for Big Life:
Daniel started and manages the Predator Protection Program which gives ranchers fair market compensation when their livestock are killed by predators. In the past, the natural reaction was retaliation to kill the predators that killed the livestock. This program has allowed lions to grow and co-exist in the region among many other predators.
Daniel Kutata:
Daniel is one of hundreds of local Maasai rangers who work to patrol and protect all of the land in Big Life’s territory. One major issue they deal with is elephant human conflict and briefly before meeting Daniel his cousin had been killed by an elephant, the same animal he works so hard every day to protect.
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