Duarte, I'd love to connect and possibly write a case study on Mossy Earth to teach in my Eco-Entrepreneurship course at the University of Delaware. Maybe there are other opportunities to explore in academia, especially as we think of regenerative and circular business models for nature conservation and rewilding. I work in management, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship and we certainly need more organizations like Mossy Earth to do THE good work. I'd gladly make all of this content open source and free to share with the community. I believe there is a lot to learn. If this is of interest, please let me know. I truly appreciate the work you and the Mossy crew do. Keep up the good work! Abraço
Hi Tomé, thank you for the opportunity! The easiest would be for you to drop us a message on the contact form on our website and the team will get it to the right person. Please mention that you are writing in based on a conversation with me. Cheers, Duarte
Responding specifically to the documentary idea I believe the video production work you all do has potentially greater impact than any of the rewilding and conservation efforts conducted by the team. In my own experience and those of other college students like myself seeing the ways projects like this can be organized at a medium scale has been incredibly enlightening. I've felt some of the ripple effects already in my own life forming an Environmentalism club at our college and even in the work that we've done as a club we've moved away from classroom-based instruction into more field-centric work. We're currently working on a biodiversity survey and index of our campus and I don't believe we would have even considered the possibility of this without seeing the ways your teams have conducted their work. One of my favorite quotes is by Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forestry engineer. "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." I think this line perfectly encapsulates what the videos you make do for people. They introduce us to new habitats, creatures, and ways of interacting with our environment. I think a fully produced documentary released to the major streaming services has the potential to extend that influence dramatically.
Thank you for taking the time to write this lovely comment! I also think storytelling has a lot of potential but we want to make sure something like this coming from our rewilding budget would make sense. Right now we are exploring all the alternatives and will post back about how we want to do it moving forward. However, one way or another we will make it happen :) - Cheers, Duarte
Well you are part of the action regardless :). Whether you are just following along on TH-cam or actually a member funding the work all of it helps get the projects done! - Cheers, Duarte
These videos are so informative about how mossy earth works! I am starting to study GIS and hope to help with rewilding projects in the next few years ^^
Definitely start working on a documentary! Not everyone has a streaming service so you'd need to get it out to other tv stations too. In Australia you could try the ABC or SBS. Have you thought of using Patreon to raise money for specific purposes? I don't have the funds to become a member but I could maybe do a one off donation and other viewers might also be able to do this too.
Selling a documentary to regular TV or streaming services would be smart in terms of targeting a new member demographic (GenX and Boomers) with more funds that are maybe less active on YT ;) :P If they would be interested to be a member is another question, but who knows.
We are thinking more of simply spreading the concept of rewilding further and less of getting new members with this particular effort. To get new members we have some fresh ideas brewing! - Cheers, Duarte
I'd love an episode on how you guys choose projects and partnerships. You've touched on budget vs impact, but I'd love to hear more details on the thought process there.
I found the hope versus fear discussion very interesting and thought provoking. As Matt said there's a lot of big production documentaries that while visually stunning and beautifully made, they cause some sort of nostalgic incoming doom kind of feeling that somewhat reminds me of the departure of the Elves from Middle-Earth, as if everything that's good and beautiful is about to disappear. Fortunately that's not what I get from Mossy Earth and some of the other smaller productions on youtube. I love the way your work inspires to people into action and gets them hopeful. You present the problem in a way that clearly brings into view how close we're to, pardon the french, fucking everything up, but you're immediately there saying "but not all is lost! Here's how we plan on solving this mess and how you can help". In our day and age bringing a problem to the big public is not enough, you also need to provide solutions and I think you're doing that brilliantly.
Thank you for taking the time to write this thoughtful comment. Like you I love a good Middle Earth analogy as it is my favourite story (books and movies!). You made my evening with this analogy! You are spot on in the feeling of beauty and good disappearing and it certainly has a necessary place in our conversations as a society. However, much like a stubborn Samwise Gamgee we would rather focus on what is fixable in front of us and not to despair too much about the bigger picture. - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth-FieldNotes I'm glad you liked the analogy! My first "contact" with this sort of "hopeful" worldview was the French documentary Demain which I was shown during a working holiday on the Isle of Skye in 2018, when I stayed at a croft that was being somewhat rewilded by the owners and since then I've delved deeper into this sort of content, especially rewilding projects and alternative agricolture methods like natural sequence farming, permaculture, no dig and all that sort of stuff. Unfortunately right now I don't have the means to support/contribute in many ways, but one day I'd like to get back into uni and get a biology degree in some field related to this kind of topic. That said, thanks again Duarte & team for all you do and the information you put out, as I said, it it is incredibly inspiring!
So great to see another pod episode! Love the ambience as well. I’ve already contacted through the form you sent out in the mossy earth recent email, but I’d be so interested in helping make this documentary! I have made a short documentary on an established rewilding charity in the UK. Hopefully this comes to fruition ✌🏼
I'm not actually sure this would be a good fit but since they've been expanding on the kinds of things they're funding, I wonder if Nebula was interested at funding a mossy documentary The tricky thing is, afaik, that the network is invitation-only, but they may just not have considered a channel like this before and might be open to that
As for selling this documentary to a streaming service, my advice is to make sure it’s not exclusive to one streaming service. This is because I’ve seen and heard that a lot of streaming services are taking down a lot of their content (this could be of various reasons). This is fine, if people could see that content somewhere else (like another streaming services) or can just buy the DVD or Blu-ray of it. Unfortunately that’s not always the case and there are streaming service exclusives, that are lost forever, when the company decides to delete it from the platform. I don’t want your documentary be a victim of this issue, especially since that choice is most likely out of your hands (meaning it’s most likely the choice of the company that owns that stream service, if the documentary is allowed to stay on that platform or not)
In many ways, even the shorter videos are documentaries, and there's a big viewership of short form videos. I think that a mix of one minute, ten or twenty minute, and hour long documentaries, with links from shorter to longer, could work well, with shorter catching attention and initial interest, and longer form answering more questions and cementing interest. Guide Dogs for the Blind had a documentary on Disney Plus, and it created a lot of interest in joining puppy raising clubs. Streaming services like that might have interest in polished documentaries. Perhaps share costs with similar seeming organizations (Planet Wild?) on a combined documentary.
Agreed on the shorter form working really well for us and we definitely would not change it! It is more about the potential of using long form and trying out new platforms in the way you suggest. In terms of costs we would rather fund it ourselves or look for a grant to top things up if needed. - Cheers, Duarte
Re-editing the video to include the domino fish was 9010% worth the wait
Agreed! Very happy I did it :) - Cheers, Duarte
Duarte, I'd love to connect and possibly write a case study on Mossy Earth to teach in my Eco-Entrepreneurship course at the University of Delaware. Maybe there are other opportunities to explore in academia, especially as we think of regenerative and circular business models for nature conservation and rewilding. I work in management, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship and we certainly need more organizations like Mossy Earth to do THE good work. I'd gladly make all of this content open source and free to share with the community. I believe there is a lot to learn. If this is of interest, please let me know. I truly appreciate the work you and the Mossy crew do. Keep up the good work! Abraço
Hi Tomé, thank you for the opportunity! The easiest would be for you to drop us a message on the contact form on our website and the team will get it to the right person. Please mention that you are writing in based on a conversation with me.
Cheers,
Duarte
Responding specifically to the documentary idea I believe the video production work you all do has potentially greater impact than any of the rewilding and conservation efforts conducted by the team. In my own experience and those of other college students like myself seeing the ways projects like this can be organized at a medium scale has been incredibly enlightening. I've felt some of the ripple effects already in my own life forming an Environmentalism club at our college and even in the work that we've done as a club we've moved away from classroom-based instruction into more field-centric work. We're currently working on a biodiversity survey and index of our campus and I don't believe we would have even considered the possibility of this without seeing the ways your teams have conducted their work.
One of my favorite quotes is by Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forestry engineer. "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." I think this line perfectly encapsulates what the videos you make do for people. They introduce us to new habitats, creatures, and ways of interacting with our environment. I think a fully produced documentary released to the major streaming services has the potential to extend that influence dramatically.
Thank you for taking the time to write this lovely comment! I also think storytelling has a lot of potential but we want to make sure something like this coming from our rewilding budget would make sense. Right now we are exploring all the alternatives and will post back about how we want to do it moving forward. However, one way or another we will make it happen :) - Cheers, Duarte
This podcast is really good. Makes us feel like we are part of the action :)
Well you are part of the action regardless :). Whether you are just following along on TH-cam or actually a member funding the work all of it helps get the projects done! - Cheers, Duarte
I would love to see your documentary shown at film festivals, and at one or more of the COP events so world leaders know about what you do.
It would be a really cool experience to see it with some members I think :) - Cheers, Duarte
These videos are so informative about how mossy earth works! I am starting to study GIS and hope to help with rewilding projects in the next few years ^^
That's great to hear, good luck with your studies! - Cheers, Meija
Definitely start working on a documentary! Not everyone has a streaming service so you'd need to get it out to other tv stations too. In Australia you could try the ABC or SBS.
Have you thought of using Patreon to raise money for specific purposes? I don't have the funds to become a member but I could maybe do a one off donation and other viewers might also be able to do this too.
Selling a documentary to regular TV or streaming services would be smart in terms of targeting a new member demographic (GenX and Boomers) with more funds that are maybe less active on YT ;) :P If they would be interested to be a member is another question, but who knows.
We are thinking more of simply spreading the concept of rewilding further and less of getting new members with this particular effort. To get new members we have some fresh ideas brewing! - Cheers, Duarte
Great to hear some insights into what goes into making the great videos that get released!
Thanks Paul! Glad you enjoyed it :) - Cheers, Duarte
I'd love an episode on how you guys choose projects and partnerships. You've touched on budget vs impact, but I'd love to hear more details on the thought process there.
That will be coming up in the next few episodes I'm sure! That will be a very interesting topic :) - Cheers, Duarte
I found the hope versus fear discussion very interesting and thought provoking. As Matt said there's a lot of big production documentaries that while visually stunning and beautifully made, they cause some sort of nostalgic incoming doom kind of feeling that somewhat reminds me of the departure of the Elves from Middle-Earth, as if everything that's good and beautiful is about to disappear.
Fortunately that's not what I get from Mossy Earth and some of the other smaller productions on youtube. I love the way your work inspires to people into action and gets them hopeful. You present the problem in a way that clearly brings into view how close we're to, pardon the french, fucking everything up, but you're immediately there saying "but not all is lost! Here's how we plan on solving this mess and how you can help".
In our day and age bringing a problem to the big public is not enough, you also need to provide solutions and I think you're doing that brilliantly.
Thank you for taking the time to write this thoughtful comment. Like you I love a good Middle Earth analogy as it is my favourite story (books and movies!). You made my evening with this analogy! You are spot on in the feeling of beauty and good disappearing and it certainly has a necessary place in our conversations as a society. However, much like a stubborn Samwise Gamgee we would rather focus on what is fixable in front of us and not to despair too much about the bigger picture. - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth-FieldNotes I'm glad you liked the analogy!
My first "contact" with this sort of "hopeful" worldview was the French documentary Demain which I was shown during a working holiday on the Isle of Skye in 2018, when I stayed at a croft that was being somewhat rewilded by the owners and since then I've delved deeper into this sort of content, especially rewilding projects and alternative agricolture methods like natural sequence farming, permaculture, no dig and all that sort of stuff.
Unfortunately right now I don't have the means to support/contribute in many ways, but one day I'd like to get back into uni and get a biology degree in some field related to this kind of topic.
That said, thanks again Duarte & team for all you do and the information you put out, as I said, it it is incredibly inspiring!
Amazing podcast 😊
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for tuning in! - Cheers, Duarte
So great to see another pod episode! Love the ambience as well. I’ve already contacted through the form you sent out in the mossy earth recent email, but I’d be so interested in helping make this documentary! I have made a short documentary on an established rewilding charity in the UK. Hopefully this comes to fruition ✌🏼
Thank you Fraser! We will keep all the contacts and follow up when it makes sense even if it is just for a round of advice. - Cheers, Duarte
19:27 Snake showing total lack of regard :)
Yea it really couldn’t care less… thankfully!😅 - Cheers, Duarte
I'm not actually sure this would be a good fit but since they've been expanding on the kinds of things they're funding, I wonder if Nebula was interested at funding a mossy documentary
The tricky thing is, afaik, that the network is invitation-only, but they may just not have considered a channel like this before and might be open to that
Exactly! We would love to be a part of something like nebula. - Cheers, Duarte
As for selling this documentary to a streaming service, my advice is to make sure it’s not exclusive to one streaming service.
This is because I’ve seen and heard that a lot of streaming services are taking down a lot of their content (this could be of various reasons). This is fine, if people could see that content somewhere else (like another streaming services) or can just buy the DVD or Blu-ray of it. Unfortunately that’s not always the case and there are streaming service exclusives, that are lost forever, when the company decides to delete it from the platform.
I don’t want your documentary be a victim of this issue, especially since that choice is most likely out of your hands (meaning it’s most likely the choice of the company that owns that stream service, if the documentary is allowed to stay on that platform or not)
In many ways, even the shorter videos are documentaries, and there's a big viewership of short form videos. I think that a mix of one minute, ten or twenty minute, and hour long documentaries, with links from shorter to longer, could work well, with shorter catching attention and initial interest, and longer form answering more questions and cementing interest. Guide Dogs for the Blind had a documentary on Disney Plus, and it created a lot of interest in joining puppy raising clubs. Streaming services like that might have interest in polished documentaries.
Perhaps share costs with similar seeming organizations (Planet Wild?) on a combined documentary.
Agreed on the shorter form working really well for us and we definitely would not change it! It is more about the potential of using long form and trying out new platforms in the way you suggest. In terms of costs we would rather fund it ourselves or look for a grant to top things up if needed. - Cheers, Duarte
I somehow had no idea Wild Notes exists
We need to promote it a bit more on our existing videos! - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth-FieldNotes definitely do! I'm subscribed now and have watched the two released videos
I can't find the wild notes channel
Hi, here it is: www.youtube.com/@WilderNotes
Enjoy!