An Offering: The Cigbrick
For centuries, the Cree Nation have used tobacco for rituals and offerings. Learning from this wisdom, we can reclaim the use of tobacco as a means to catalyse and raise ecological consciousness.
Chère Madame Henderson
Chère Madame Henderson, You might not remember me. Indeed, I only just barely remember you. Nonetheless, your influence on my life has been immense. I am one of your many many Whitehorse Elementary French Immersion students. As a wide-eyed pupil in your grade...
Our Ecobrick & Brikcoin Whitepaper is Ready
Tired of reading about the plastic pollution problem? Well, we’ve been hard at work writing about a systemic solution. And it is out! Our Ecobrick & Brikcoin White paper is published and available for public download.
Balili Food Forest Play Park Six Years On
News and photos of the thriving earth and ecobrick garden I helped build with my friends in the Filipine Coordilleras
10,000 kg packed!
We did it! 10,000 kgs of plastic have been packed and secured out of the biosphere by ecobrickers around the world using the GoBrik app over the last year in over 30,000 ecobricks! Of course, collectively ecobrickers have secured one thousand times this, however, for...
Earth & Ecobrick Mandala Park Build Final Phase
Our 33 trainers and 200 volunteers descended on our mandala earth and ecobrick park yesterday for the final phase of contruction It was a unique experience for me to relax through the completion and finishing stages of construction. Typically, when leading a build,...
Earth Building Workshop Day 3: Mandalic CollaborationTheory
Day three of our earth and ecobrick trainer course we went deep into mandalic collaboration theory with the full morning invested in making personal, partner, and group mandalas. I have been reflecting and preparing for how we would do this part of the workshop for...
Tournament Time
Well, its been an intense last week, so I am only getting around to posting this now. Last weekend was epic. After training and preparing for the last three months, my team, the LoveHandlers competed in the 20th Nusantara Cup ultimate frisbee tournament in Bali. We...
Earth & Ecobrick Building Workshop
its been a full out last few days here in Probolingo, East Java as we launch our first official Earth and Ecobrick building course! We have thirty of our star trainers who have joined Ani Himawati and I for a full five day intensive course. After several years of...
A Story of Spread… from the Philippines to Indonesia, to the UK
The Global Earth Village network, with whom I have worked since the very beginning of ecobricks in the Northern Philippines, recently contacted me to ask for a story for their upcoming GENOA Annual Report. Thank goodness for their persistence (they emailed me three...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