by russs.net | Jun 30, 2013 | - Milstein Modules
This week I was invited to present the concept of community Eco-brick collaboration to 40 Anglican priests in Bontoc for their annual assembly. I was excited to be there– I believe trash and pollution is fundamentally a spiritual/consciousness issue. To...
by russs.net | Jun 12, 2013 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
It glows! The other day I checked in on our bottle build in Besao. It’s looking good and getting higher! The wall is built with clear wine bottles and in the center, three rows of water/food color filled gin bottles for a little artistic touch. Next, a good...
by russs.net | Jun 12, 2013 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
Walking through the Bontoc Capitol Park yesterday, I came across half a dozen teenagers playing on our giant snake– the one that we made from ecobricks last month. It was so awesome to see them having fun on it. The kids had devised some sort of tag...
by russs.net | 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...
by russs.net | May 29, 2013 | - Bottle Building
I am feeling excited and grateful for an amazing window of opportunity. I am working on a simple document, that I feel will have a dramatic effect on Mt. Province, here where I live in the Philippines. The doc is being developed with my friends in the department of...
by russs.net | May 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am really digging working with clay and bottles. Here is a sitting area that accopanies that gin bottle wall I posted earlier. The bench is made from eco-bricks, alas, it wasnt so comfortable. So I thought, why not sculpt a comfortable chair onto it?! The...
by russs.net | May 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
We are building a wall made of luniscent gin bottles today in the village of Besao! The prototype wall is an experiment and showcase in upcycling bottles and building from local materials. The bottles are filled with food coloring and mortared with cob (local clay,...
by russs.net | 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...
by russs.net | 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...
by russs.net | May 7, 2013 | - Bottle Building, - Milstein Modules
This is the second short documentary on our work in Guina’ang and the bottle brick phenomenon that has been spreading throughout mountain province as a way to deal with the trash. Illac and Alex, two guys from the Manila chapter of Architecture for Humanity,...
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