From Fabrication to Funeral

From Fabrication to Funeral

by | Sep 4, 2013 | - Reflections, Trashure

I deeply excited by the designs that we have been coming up with here in Mt. Province. Purses made from wrappers, bamboo bikes, solar coke bottle chargers, Ecobricks, organic cement, glass bottle furniture and more.  Because I am based here in a small mountain village...
What to do with toxic hospital trash?

What to do with toxic hospital trash?

by | May 29, 2013 | - Reflections, Trashure

What to do with toxic hospital trash?  No really, what to do?!  I was asked this question two months ago, now I am in the village of Besao trying out some solutions.  Here in Besao, surely like so many other places in the world, hospitals generate all sorts of crazy...

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by | May 13, 2013 | - Reflections, Trashure

I was flipping through papers at the local newstand the other day when I had a shock:  There was our project on the front page!  The article sprouts from an eco-conference that Sarah and Pi led in Bontoc.  The process of reflecting on the story behind the trash...

Reflections on the idea of Trash

by | May 8, 2013 | - Reflections, Uncategorized

I noticed something strange in the way people speak in the indegenuous Igorot villages here where I live. When the people speak in English they call wrappers and plastics that are on the ground “dirts”.  This is strange– I figured it must be...
The Problem is the Solution

The Problem is the Solution

by | May 7, 2013 | - Reflections

I live in one of the poorest parts of the world.  It is beset by the “problems” of poverty, overpopulation, corporate exploitation and pollution.  The circumstances here are the same for the majority of people on the planet– be they in Africa, South...