by russs.net | Aug 10, 2013 | - Milstein Modules, -Ecobricks
BIG NEWS! I am super excited and proud to report that EVERY school in Mt. Province is now making Ecobricks. Mam Sally, the Superintendent, had our Vision Ecobrick Guide (the culmination of a year of research and development) published in Bontoc two weeks ago. A copy...
by russs.net | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Phew! I just got back home from La Trinidad where the air is full of smog and the streets and river full of mis-placed plastic. La Trinidad has been on my heart since I first passed through it three years ago and had to hold my breath. The photos here of the local...
by russs.net | Jul 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Drop me a line if you’d like to make an order. In particular, we’re in good shape to take small orders of 20 to 100 of our clutch, wallet or market bags from Fairtrade stores or folks who want to retail them personally....
by russs.net | Jul 29, 2013 | - Permaculture
I visited the remote village of Lakmaan with a friend a month ago. The visit and what I saw had profound effect on me that I haven’t been able to shake. I believe I experienced first hand the salvation of humanity. It was a rather mundane visit to a beautiful...
by russs.net | Jul 28, 2013 | - Mandalas, - Milstein Modules
34 THOUSAND STUDENTS Mobilized. Yesterday was rather epic. I presented the ecobrick Mt. Prov phenomenon to a room packed with teachers, principals and leaders from Caloocan– a densely populated urban poor district of Manila. I explained that just as community...
by russs.net | Jul 20, 2013 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
Yesterday, we began turning the ugliest corner of Lubas Elementary into a beautiful giant python park! Literally hundreds of students and parents coalesced in digging the jagged and rocky area, preparing clay, mixing cement, laying bottles, and sculpting the giant...
by russs.net | Jul 8, 2013 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
The other day I visited the humble barrio of Miramonte, Caloocan, one of the many urban poor communities of Manila. I arrived with Doms and Arianne from the Anglican Church with whom I am working this week. The Anglicans have esatablished a thriving and beautiful...
by russs.net | Jul 5, 2013 | - Milstein Modules, co-creation
6000 students mobilized to clean up Caloocan, Manila! Today I had the honor of visiting the densest and the most ecologically progressive school I have yet been to in the Philippines– Camarind National Elementary and High School with 6000 students! Doms...
by russs.net | Jul 3, 2013 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules, Uncategorized
Its one thing to pack plastics into bottles. It is another to solve pollution. You simply cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that generated it– no matter how much plastics you put into bottles. Fundamentally its spiritual. So, how to make the...
by russs.net | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Mission Mushroom accomplished! Using ecobricks and colored-water-filled gin bottles we have built a giant ‘EcoMushroom’ for St. Mary’s High school in Sagada. The whole school and much of the staff participated over two weeks as put it together....
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