by russs.net | Sep 20, 2012 | - Reflections, 1Actions, 1Mandala
What’s the best way to make Good stuff happen? I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about this lately. Back when I was in university, my mentor, the campus Chaplin, would look over my weekly articles for the university newspaper. I loved to tackle...
by russs.net | Sep 18, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules, Trashure
“Russell, we’re going to Natonin tomorrow and we have to speak to 300 youth for two days! Help!” That’s how my adventure to Natonin, a remote village in the mountains began last week. Cell service had been down for several days, and my friend...
by russs.net | Sep 12, 2012 | 1Actions, 1Mandala
I was asked by TrailAdventours, who are supporting the 1Mandala Guina’ang 1Book project, to tell the story of how it all began for their upcoming travel magazine. Here it is! —– The village of Guina’ang is about as far away as you can get...
by russs.net | Sep 10, 2012 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules, Uncategorized
In our house we have about a dozen boxes for segregating our trash. Yet, still, there is trash that just can’t be recycled or put to use as a pillow (our last resort for plastic bags and wrappers!). What to do with the bloody plastic bag that held the frozen...
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....