by russs.net | Feb 1, 2018 | -Earth Bottle
Well, I am excited to be back in Bali for lots of reasons. One of them is to check up on the progress of our various innovations– like the EarthBottles! My friend and bottle master Budi Boleng, has completed our first run of 10 and they are looking super good!...
by russs.net | Jan 27, 2018 | - Reflections
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...
by russs.net | Jan 18, 2018 | - Reflections, Uncategorized
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by russs.net | Jan 16, 2018 | - Reflections
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...
by russs.net | Jan 3, 2018 | -EarthCup
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...
by russs.net | Jan 3, 2018 | - Bamboo, -Bamboo Bike
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...
by russs.net | Dec 18, 2017 | -Ecobricks
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...
by russs.net | Dec 12, 2017 | -Earth Bottle
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...
by russs.net | Dec 3, 2017 | -EarthCup
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...
by russs.net | Nov 27, 2017 | - Lotus Water Cradle, Uncategorized
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...