Carly Wilson - wildlife films and activism

15/08/2025

A little plug here for a local startup I wanted to tell all my Gold Coast friendies about :)

Miami Based "Seed The Ground" drop and go composting service has diverted 100 tonnes of waste away from landfill since they started in 2021. That's a lot!

I learned about them after spending years in worm purgatory. I tried so hard with composting and vermiculture but I really struggled with it as someone who lives in a small apartment with only balconies as my outdoor space - and in a hot climate where infestations by bugs can happen pretty easily. I'm tempted to try again with worms in the future by just keeping my whole bin inside (they don't smell) but for now, I saved myself a lot of trouble by just signing up for this service where every week I get two clean tubs and whenever I'm ready, I can swap them out at a swap station for new ones. Every now and then the swap station has free compost there for us to collect as well and my plants have been so happy for that.

Such a great idea and it's honestly a business model I had always hoped someone would start and would actually fantasise about in my worm purgatory days where every time I went outside my balcony was covered in creepy crawly fly larva that had crawled out of my worm bin omg.

As a diehard greenie, the thought of giving up composting and sending all of my perfectly good organic waste to landfill was too much for me to handle so I've been so grateful for this easy service. I'd so love to convince more people to pick up this service or start home composting if you're able. It's so silly to be filling land fills with biodegradable organic waste for no reason - and then going to Bunnings to buy plastic wrapped expensive compost. Cut out the middle man!!



https://www.seedtheground.com.au
Seed the Ground

25/07/2025

I got to spend a few minutes this week with a newborn humpback whale!! Sooo special!! 😍🐋💕

17/06/2025

✨Magic ✨ I don’t think I have ever in my life stood in the path of so much waterfall mist. Amazing!!

24/05/2025

There is a reason I named my first born child after this legend.

She also married one of the Nat Geo photogs. He noticed also 🔥

24/05/2025

Spent the morning going through old footage and came across this sweet little koala in care sleeping so soundly. It reminded me of when I had babies at home and you would spend ages just watching them sleep 💕

17/05/2025

Thanks so much to the Wayne Green Team for all your efforts with your recent screening!

So happy to hear that you are working on helping the understand that an educational institution should not be intentionally releasing balloons into the atmosphere as football game entertainment. We know without doubt that balloons can travel vast distances and are very likely to land in the ocean when released. We also know that endangered sea turtles and many other species are very vulnerable to accidental ingestion which is often life ending. Its ridiculous that when faced with this information a university, a science institution, could continue this practice.

06/05/2025

My daughter told me yesterday how suprised she was that her teacher, an educator, would shop on Temu. We also talk a lot about Shein in our home and why we don't use these websites.

I am actually having a one year consumerism detox if anyone would like to join me. I am only replacing broken or necessary items and of course still buying food and consumables.

I have already stuffed it up twice in the 6 weeks Ive been into it but despite that, I have already really saved a lot of money and feel much better about myself. I am someone that cares deeply about the environment and I am particularly focussed on minimising waste but at the same time, I love art, clothes, beauty, comfort, and pleasure so omg are boutiques and shops ever a huge temptation for me! Ahh!! I am hoping a year dedicated to experiences will help re wire my brain away from the shopping trap.

👖 Shein is popular among Gen Z, where a market analysis found that 44% of U.S. consumers buy from them at least once a month. Shein’s business model is built on speed: clothes go from concept to production to consumer in mere weeks, flooding the market with cheap, poorly made items, designed to be worn a few times and then thrown away.⁠
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👉 It's time for Shein to stop trashing the planet and enact reduction and reuse targets. Sign our petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-adidas-amazon-apple-hm-shein-unilever-stop-trashing-the-planet
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Image: An empire built on waste by Emanuele Jane Morelli

01/05/2025

Came across this love pile of koalas a few months back and had been scratching my head over it for ages. I couldn't decide if there are two or three koalas here. Surely it's just a big mum and a small bub. I think. Or is there three? Help me??

09/04/2025

Our home sweet rain forest home .. for a week 🥰

Over the past couple of years I have been listing our home as a short term rental during the kid's school holiday periods as a way to earn some extra travel money and have some new experiences. I didn't realise initially that this new funky lifestyle also potentially had conservation benefits.

Did you know that air bnb and the boom in short term rentals is part of what is contributing to the housing crisis? In particular, when people have 3/4/5 etc of these short term rentals, it starts to become a big problem as normal rental properties become hard to come by and costs can become widely inflated. It then becomes a conservation problem as governments look to push trees down to add in new family homes to meet the demand.

Letting out our own personal homes a few weeks a year could potentially take some heat out of the market and move some of these full time short term rentals back to standard rental properties.

In the new doco I am working on, a critically endangered vegetation community is at threat of being felled to make way for new homes in a part of the world where at the last census more than 60% of homes in the town were vacant, unoccupied holiday homes. The holiday homes were all just sitting there empty as temp fencing started going up to make way for tree felling .. to solve the housing crisis .. in the town with all the empty homes.

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31/03/2025

I'll be 'zooming in' on this one for a virtual director Q&A following the film. Please share with anyone you may know in the Nebraska region!

Is anyone in our midst living in Nebraska? The Wayne Green Team is hosting a screening of Rubber Jellyfish on April 7th!

The University of Nebraska is one of the American universities that used to release balloons as part of their football game festivities. This ended in 2022 when the university's student body and government voted to end the tradition but was recently re-introduced without consultation.

We are happy to learn that some faculty members from the Univ of Nebraska have been invited to this live screening event with director Q&A and we are hoping that it will make a measurable impact.

Please share with any ocean enthusiasts and marine science geeks within your networks - especially if they are in the Nebraska region.

Event website link here: https://www.cityofwayne.org/583/News-Events

Facebook event link here: https://www.facebook.com/events/982441170620628/?rdid=nYvfeL7IoaK8syd0&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1BEqHz8hDe%2F

26/03/2025

Early morning wander across the sand today. Everything was blue and purple. Some things belonged there, some things did not. Sad to see the perfect little see sea creatures and dainty shells resting there amongst our heinous sad little trash piles. The ocean isn't a rubbish tip and all roads lead to mother ocean. It's up to us to question every single little thing we buy. Do we need Shein? Do we need Temu? Do we need corn cut away from its natural packaging and repackaged in plastic? Could we find a farmer's market instead and enjoy a cappacino and throw a coin to a busker while there? Is that maybe more fun than Woolies anyway? 💁‍♀️ Can we do better?

26/03/2025

Hosted a beach clean last week and whadya know, the local weather girl showed up! Score! Thanks Channel 10 😃🐢