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My Garden Loves Me

by Russell Maier | May 27, 2021 | - Earthen Ethics, - Permaculture, - Regenerative

I am really proud of our home ‘garden’. Well, we first moved in, it was a garden. Grass. Ornamental plants. Some flowers. However, slow and steady, over the last five years we’ve been conscious cultivating its diversity. If that sounds like hard...

My Forest Garden Loves Me

by Russell Maier | May 24, 2021 | - Earthen Ethics, - Permaculture, - Regenerative

The Big Distinction

by Russell Maier | May 24, 2021 | - Earthen Ethics

I am excited. After weeks of refining and reflection on the next installment of the Earthen Ethic, it is ready. In this essay, I have stumbled upon, and absolutely essential and breakthrough distinction. Have you often wondered about all the marketing being made...

Happy Earth Day Salmon Post

by Russell Maier | Apr 22, 2021 | - Earthen Ethics

Happy Earth Day! It just so happens that this week’s Earthen Ethic installment is ready today. How apropos– as this one is perhaps the most radical and exciting of them all. I’ve been working on it for months and I am really honored that my old...

EarthCup and Trainer Check In!

by Russell Maier | Apr 10, 2021 | -EarthCup

I was really excited to return to Kampung Blekok the other day. About two years ago, not only had we led an ecobrick training-of-trainers in this community… but I also met Cak Ali! Ali had joined our training to figure how to deal with his community’...

Presented!

by Russell Maier | Feb 13, 2021 | - Earthen Ethics

What actually is “green”? What is actually “helping the planet”? What does that even mean? Although, it may seem simple, it gets confusing fast.

Ready to Present!

by Russell Maier | Feb 13, 2021 | - Earthen Ethics

Ready to present the paper!

Calendar Sales Up!

by Russell Maier | Jan 13, 2021 | -Calendar

Up! Thanks for all the requests and encouragement to get a PDF download of the EarthCycles Calendar up for sale. I’ve put it onto to our GoBrik Store where you can purchase the super high resolution master file for printing at a print shop near you. The file...

First Print!

by Russell Maier | Jan 8, 2021 | -Calendar

Woohoo! After thinking about this idea for the last ten years, I am super excited to finally make the first full print of my Earth cycle calendar! Thanks to my master navigator brother Chris for the help adding the Moon’s apsidal procession and the Earth’s...

An Earth Cycles Calendar

by Russell Maier | Dec 28, 2020 | - Reflections, - Regenerative, -Calendar

I’ve wanted to make a calendar for myself for a long time. Back when I was a landscape artist in Northern B.C. Canada, I spent hours and hours working on a calendar design that would show one of my seasonal paintings each month. But, I didn’t want it to...