EcoMatters
Because Our Natural World Matters
Welcome To My Blog!
I live most my life in the outdoors!
I'm an avid surfer, swimmer and competitive ski racer. Which means that Nature is my second home.
And environmental preservation is what I care about most.
Ava M
MY DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
I make mini documentaries, using online resources, about some of the issues I care about most.
I spend many months of the year in the middle of the Sierra Nevada forest, where I go to school. It's impossible not to see the crisis facing California forests. Unprecedented tree mortality is the effect of decades of drought, climate change and an explosion of Pine Beetles. Which makes our forests just one spark away from the next mega wildfire.
Seeing Forests Through the Trees
As a surfer I'm constantly confronted by the plastic waste that finds its way into our oceans. From grocery bags and candy wrappers floating in the water, to the soda bottles and fishing gear washing up onto the shore, plastic trash is everywhere. But the scale of this problem is so much bigger than first meets the eye. I believe this crisis is one of the most urgent catastrophes facing our world.
Ocean Plastics
This is a movie trailer I created for a longer documentary I'm in the process of making. The documentary is about a massive DDT dumpsite 3000 feet below the surface and just 12 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. It is the result of irresponsible environmental laws from the 1940s and 1970s, and it is so massive not even the EPA knows what to do about it.
Paradise Poisoned (Trailer)
This is a 60 second promotional video I created for Heal the Bay. Heal the Bay is an amazing environmental nonprofit established in 1985 that is dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds in Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy and clean. They use science, education, community action and advocacy to fulfill their mission. Visit them at: https://healthebay.org/
