by Russell Maier | Apr 30, 2019 | - Bottle Building, -Ecobricks
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,...
by russs.net | Nov 1, 2017 | - Reflections, -Ecobricks
I’ve got good news and bad news on cigarette butts. There is a simple solution to a big problem. Trashed cigarette butts are one of the most rampant of all human wastes. Over 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded every year.(1) In beach clean ups around the...
by russs.net | May 16, 2014 | - Bottle Building, - Reflections, -Ecobricks
Our VEB intro movie is now complete! A massive collaborative effort on the part of our volunteer Ecobrick team has resulted in this short and sweet little movie that sums up the core concepts of Ecobricks in less than three minutes. That’s pretty good...
by Russell Maier | Apr 29, 2014 | - Bottle Building
We’ve been working hard to develop a pilot Ecobrick park to showcase the simplest, lowest-cost, Ecobrick construction methods. Our park in Balili, Bontoc, Mt. Province, Philippines is now complete! The park shows how trash (approximately 1000 large sacs of plastic)...
by russs.net | Dec 10, 2013 | - Bottle Building
This weekend I visited Monkayan NHS in Benguet Province, Philippines. Led by my friend Deacon Helen, they had made several hundred ecobricks over the last few months. I gave a little talk about how important and wonderful their work is (instead of being dumped and...
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