Russell Maier

Exploring green ethics, regenerative philosophy. Earth builder & Forest Gardener. Principal in the global ecobrick movement.

Earthen Ethics Second Edition

Over a decade ago, I became stranded in the mountainous, verdant land of the Igorot people in the isolated northern Philippines. For five years, I did my best to learn their language, make friends and home. However, my brush with their ancient cyclocentric culture — in particular in particular their ecological

New ways to connect ecobricks

How can used used plastic be put to good, local and green use without relying on capital and industry? This question has driven my work with plastic for the last years. Given that plastic is a key component of our industrial petrocapital age, a simple answer to the question provides

Asal Muasal Konsep Ayyew dalam Gerakan Ecobrick

Hi there trainers, Heads up! On March 20th we have a special trainers only GEA event. Russell Maier and Irene Angway, co-founders of the GEA will be interviewed by Lucie and Ani on the history of the Asian regenerative ecobrick movement and their latest book Tractatus Ayyew: An Earthen Ethics.

The Ayyew Origins of Ecobricking

Hi there trainers, Heads up! On March 20th we have a special trainers only GEA event. Russell Maier and Irene Angway, co-founders of the GEA will be interviewed by Lucie and Ani on the history of the asian regenerative ecobrick movement and their latest book Tractatus Ayyew: An Earthen Ethics.

EarthCal v0.9

With the new year comes a new spin around the sun. And with it, an upgrade of EarthCal! EarthCal is a little project I've been working on for the last few years. Back when I painted landscapes, I was frustrated that the cycles of the seasons, the planets

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Di Sini Kita Beranjak!

Dear GEA team, Kami sangat gembira dapat memulai bersama Anda di tahun 2025. 🤩 Produksi dan konsumsi plastik terus meningkat dan menimbulkan ancaman untuk biosfer. Ecobrick dan transisi plastik tidak pernah lebih penting dari sebelumnya. Memang, seperti yang tertulis di Tractatus Ayyew (karya Banayan dan Maier), plastik harian kita adalah tempat

2025, here we go!

Dear GEA team, We're excited to get going with you for 2025. 🤩 Plastic production and consumption continues to climb and pose a biospheric threat. Ecobricks and plastic transition have never been more important. Indeed, as we write in the Tractatus Ayyew, our daily plastic is the place to

Ecobricks

2024 Ecobricks for a 2025 Table

Just in time for 2025, I polished off the last ecobricks to compose a new coffee table for our new home for the new year...

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Harapan Hijau untuk Tahun Baru yang Hebat!

Dear GEA Tim Atas nama GEA Center Circle, saya ingin mengucapkan selamat tahun baru kepada Anda semua! Kami harap Anda menikmati titik balik matahari, Natal, dan liburan yang luar biasa di akhir tahun ini. Ani dan saya, Lucie, Fran, Paula, Rere, dan Aang... menikmati waktu di rumah bersama keluarga. Di

Green Wishes for a Great New Year!

Dear GEA Team, On behalf of the GEA center circle, I would like to wish you all a happy new year! 🎉💚🌏 We hope you've had a great solstice, Christmas and holidays this end of year. Ani and I, Lucie, Fran, Paula, Rere and Aang... have all been enjoying

A Grey month. A Glimmer of Green

On a dark month, we launch GoBrik 3.0 with hope for a green way forward.

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GoBrik 3.0 hidup!

Dear Trainers, GoBrik 3.0 akhirnya siap untuk Anda uji dan gunakan! Kami diam-diam mengaktifkan GoBrik kemarin tanggal 3 November (seperti yang dijanjikan) dan memberi tahu semua trainer GEA. Kami mohon maaf karena peluncurannya memakan waktu lama dan terima kasih atas kesabaran Anda. Kami berharap Anda dapat membantu kami mengatasi

GoBrik 3.0 is live!

Dear trainers, GoBrik 3.0 is at long last ready for you to test out and use! We're quietly turning GoBrik on today (as promised) and letting all GEA trainers know in advance. We apologize that the launch has taken so long and thank you for your patience.

Earth Building & GoBrik Building

Keen to build green? To create something with adobe and cob? And put your ecobricks to the best use possible? We're excited to announce an extensive new page on Ecobricks.org that provides a deep dive to the methods and best practices of Earth and Ecobrick building. Whether

Pengujian GoBrik 3.0 Beta Sedang Berlangsung

Dear Trainers, Ada kabar gembira: Empat trainer baru lulus dari Program TOT Indonesia Angkatan 19 yang dipandu oleh Master Trainer Rere dan Indrawati dan dibantu Ani Himawati (GEA Principal). Mereka adalah: Rilla, Anita Listyani, Naurica dan Zainuddin. Mari kita sambut mereka, teman-teman! Hal lain, yang tak kalah penting. Kami mohon

GoBrik 3.0 Beta Testing Underway

Dear Trainers, Congrats to our four new trainers Rilla Hamrilah, Anita Listyani, Naurica Hastuti, and Zainuddin who just graduated from the Indonesian TOT Program Batch 19 guided by Master Trainers Rere and Indrawati and assisted by Ani. 🤩 Welcome to the team. That said... our apologies you haven't heard

GoBrik Regenerasi yang Hebat

Global Ecobrick Alliance sangat gembira mengumumkan berakhirnya GoBrik 2.0. Selama enam tahun terakhir tim relawan kami telah menjalankan GoBrik untuk melayani Anda dan gerakan transisi plastik lokal dan global. Ratusan ribu pembuat ecobrick telah menggunakan sistem ini untuk mendaftarkan ratusan ribu ecobrick. Menjalankan platform sebesar ini bukanlah hal yang

The Great GoBrik Regeneration

The Global Ecobrick Alliance is extremely excited to announce The End of GoBrik 2.0. For the last six years our team of volunteers has run GoBrik to serve you and our local and global plastic transition movements. Hundreds of thousands of ecobrickers have used the system to log hundreds

We have done it!

Dear Trainers, We did it! All of the authenticated ecobricks logged on GoBrik over the last five years are now transferred to our new server. Thank you to everyone who chipped in to run the migration scripts on their computers and to everyone who chipped in financially to keep our

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The Great GoBrik Migration

Dear Trainers, Phew... its been a full month! Our apologies for the lull in the updates. Lots has been happening. The GEA center circle has been focused on three massive moves. First, the Indonesian team is setting up our Indonesian based organization entity (called a "Yayasan"). Second, our

Plastic

The Long Story of Plastic

What is plastic exactly? Where does it come from? And, where should it go? OVER FOUR BILLION YEARS AGO, cosmic dust and debris swirled together to form our planet. Like the other planets in our solar system, Earth was at first a barren and desolate place. For our planet'

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Kami ingin melihat proyek ecobrick Anda!

Dear Trainers, Pertama, selamat yang sebesar-besarnya kepada dua master trainer baru kita, Rere dan Indrawati! Setelah hampir tiga tahun memimpin TOT untuk Indonesia secara online melalui zoom dan beberapa kali menjadi bagian TOT offline, bulan ini GEA Center Circle dengan suara bulat memutuskan untuk meningkatkan status mereka menjadi Master Trainer

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We want to see your projects

Our ecobricks.org page now has a live feed of projects posted by ecobrickers. Please add yours.

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