Semarang: People and Plastic, Ying and Yang

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 Iconified

EarthBottle Iconified

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 I work...
EarthCup… Stamped!

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

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 shop of...