


A Story of Spread… from the Philippines to Indonesia, to the UK
The Global Earth Village network, with whom I have worked since the very beginning of ecobricks in the Northern Philippines, recently contacted me to ask for a story for their upcoming GENOA Annual Report. Thank goodness for their persistence (they emailed me three...
A Reflection on Courting & Critiquing
This letter originally went out to our GEA Philippines Trainer Network on January 3rd, 2019. As we move into the new year, I want to share one of the struggles that I have had to deal with personally over the last few years as an ecobrick leader. Ani and I get tons of...
Latest EarthBottles arrived
IMG_8338 Virture icons in place! IMG_8337 Uses varieties of local wine bottles IMG_8336 The grip is taller and more substantial IMG_8334 The cork system now enables and anticipates the owner’s replacement of the cork. The latest EarthBottle prototypes are in! ...
A reflection on the motivations of need, gratitude, and enthusiasm in fund raising and collaboration
I have had the feeling for a long while that Donation based fundraising– with need and charity as motivations– is not the way to go. After much reflection, I distinguish between need, grattitude and enthusiasm based energy raising.