The Year of the Fox

The Year of the Fox

by | Jan 3, 2015 | Uncategorized

Tis the Year of the Fox… for me!  The car in the lane beside us suddenly slowed down.  Like a silver ghost, it crossed our path fearless winding between the cars with an elegant, unhurried and fluid stride.  On the other side of the road it turned back and...
Balili Ecobrick Park Ready for Planting

Balili Ecobrick Park Ready for Planting

by | Apr 29, 2014 | - Bottle Building

We’ve been working hard to develop a pilot Ecobrick park to showcase the simplest, lowest-cost, Ecobrick construction methods.  Our park in Balili, Bontoc, Mt. Province, Philippines is now complete!  The park shows how trash (approximately 1000 large sacs of plastic)...
Organic Frisbee Design Progress

Organic Frisbee Design Progress

by | Apr 29, 2014 | Uncategorized

90%! Organic Frisbee Prototype Version 3.0 is cruising! This version is a deft combination of young pine, bamboo and a little rattan (as opposed to full rattan) and it flies at 90% the performance of a regular plastic frisbee! And I can still see the areas for...
Guina’ang Diamond Mandala

Guina’ang Diamond Mandala

by | Dec 12, 2012 | - Mandalas, 1Mandala

Guina’ang is a small and humble mountain village in the Northern Philippines.  It takes 12 hours to get there from Manila and another two by rough road from Bontoc.  I’ve been working with Guina’ang for the last two years after getting lost hiking...
A Heart Heavy Design

A Heart Heavy Design

by | Oct 17, 2012 | 1Mandala

I’ve been spending lots of time with our 1Mandala site.  I’ve been focused on getting the core concepts refined, getting the Java script, the PHP and the HTML stuff working behind the scenes.  The result?  A very HEAD-heavy site. But that’s not what...