The Best Beer in the World
Folks, I’d like to take a moment and tell you about the best beer, hands down, that I know of in the world. It’s true, I am a bit biased: the monks at the abbey where it is brewed took me in during a snow storm as I tried to bike through the European...
Walking the Silence
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The Turn of the Wheel
Almost a decade ago, I set out on an epic journey. With only my bike and camping gear, I left behind my small town in North Western Canada to get to Berlin. I was following my dreams– to be an international artist, to revisit the land of my forefathers and...
First Useable Run of EarthCups
This last week, the latest EarthCup prototypes arrived. They are our first officially commercially useable batch! Commissioned by our friends Onet and Sophian, this first run of twenty will be put to use in their herbal drink ‘Jamu’ store in Ubud. The...
Back to Earth, back to wood, bamboo and the village
Last month I was finally able to visit pak Singgh, renowned Indonesian organic designer. It was one of the hightlights of my very full visit with Ani to central Java last month. Finally, this week, I can get this blog posted with some of the great photos and...
Semarang: People and Plastic, Ying and Yang
It’s been an incredible last few days visiting the city of Semarang, Indonesia, where Ani and I led an Ecobrick training of trainer workshop. The two day indepth event was sponsored by Marimas, one of Indonesia’s largest food manufacturers (and thus...
EarthBottle Iconifed
The EarthBottle is an open source, fully local, hand-crafted, upcycled and zero-plastic personal drinking bottle solution. And the design is improving… The latest EarthBottle prototypes are in! The design is getting steadily more and more refined as...
EarthCup… Stamped!
This morning the photos of the first pieces from our first run of EarthCups came in. After lots of prototypes and lots of trials making just the right kind of stamp to imprint our friend’s logo into the clay, it looks like the everything is coming...
Lotus Cradle Refined
The latest glass version of the Lotus Cradle is up and operational! With this new model almost all the kinks are worked out of the design. It is this fitting that, the conceptual process comes full circle and that the Water cradle now sits in the chocolate...Russs.net
Russell is a regenerative designer and inventor based in Bali, Indonesia. He is one of the leaders of the Ecobrick movement in Indonesia and the world. Inspired by the principles of the mandala and his time amongst the Igorot people he works to implementing deep, trans-formative innovations. You can read more in his Regenerative Design Manifesto or follow him on Facebook and Steemit:
