by russs.net | Oct 19, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
The other day, I teamed up with Kelsie, a U.S. Peace Core worker who is stationed in a neighbouring village. Together we taught the highschool staff and 170 students of Bila National High School how to make bottle bricks. Nothing went as expected– yet, it was...
by russs.net | Sep 27, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules, Trashure
Wow. Yesterday was a lot of fun. We worked with teams of boys from San Alfonso High School to construct with our arsenal of bottle bricks. Together we’re constructing a segregation centre as designed by the students, Niklaus and I. These are the same bottle...
by russs.net | Sep 1, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
Yesterday, was the culmination of six months of experimenting and two weeks of preparation with the local high school. Together, we cleaned up the village, dug out the trash from the school’s garbage pit and dumped everything into the town’s centre plaza....
by russs.net | Aug 4, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Reflections, Trashure
We’re refining the Ecobrick methodology here in the northern Philippines. An essential part of the process is philosophical. It is essential to consider the longterm ethics of stashing plastics and potential toxics for the next 500 years into a building...
by Russell Maier | Jul 23, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules, co-creation, Paintings, Trashure
This is the unfolding of a trash wall built by the village youth and I this month. It is built from bottle bricks stuffed with trash that we salvaged from the river. The humble (yet beautiful!) wall is a community showcase of the potential of this...