To empower communities in the global-south to co-create amazing products from trash that increase local living standards, address pollution, and bring joy and inspiration to the world.
“Foreign IT Experts Lecture at Xijen”
I was in Sagada last night for a quick trip to use the village bank machine. As so often happens the universe had quite other plans. As I remarked in a previous post, living vivaciously is all about following your intuition every single moment on the twists and turns...A Table of Light: the latest Trashure creation using nothing but gin bottles, this prototyp Chinese table is illuminated from within with a 10 watt bulb secured within a central bottle that has been cut in half.
Trashure in Action over 2011
Burning Trash… Or…
Yesterday I was walking down the hill in the village. I saw my friend Esther, who runs a local restaurant on the side of the road. She was stoking a burning pile of trash. Noxious tendrils of plastic smoke swirled about her like grasping ghouls from a hellish...Russs.net
Russell is a regenerative artist, inventor and philosopher based in Bali, Indonesia. He is one of the principals of global the Ecobrick. His regenerative theories are inspired by his time amongst the Igorot people, his journey with plastic and his work mandalas. Russell is currently working on a new theory of Earthen Ethics and Plastic Sequestration. You can follow him on Facebook