Como ecobrickers, hacemos un seguimiento de la cantidad de plástico que consumimos cada mes, lo limpiamos, lo lavamos y lo guardamos. Empacamos nuestro plástico en ecoladrillos que usamos en nuestros hogares para hacer nuestros muebles y jardines. Dirigimos capacitaciones sobre ecoladrillos para empresas, comunidades cercanas y lejanas. Tanto para nuestros hogares como para nuestras empresas, compensamos nuestro plástico para asegurarnos de que nuestro hogar y nuestras empresas sean ecológicos netos. Realizamos un seguimiento y divulgamos nuestro progreso en la transición al plástico, al igual que la Global Ecobrick Alliance lo hace cada año.

Nuestro ecobricking nos ha dado la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre nuestro propio consumo de plástico. Creemos que resolver el plástico es mucho más complejo que las prohibiciones y el bambú. Si bien estos pasos son esenciales, resolver profundamente el plástico requiere una transición extensa de la forma en que nuestra cultura moderna se integra con la biosfera.

We observe that our consumption and production of plastic is rooted in the global petroleum and capital powered economy.

In this way, the plastic that we handle each day is the tip of the iceberg of the petro-capital system that is at the root of today's many of our ecological crises. As such, plastic allows us to physically touch the petro-capital system that otherwise looms large and unseen around us. Our every plastic choice, from purchasing to disposing, results in factories spinning, trucks transporting, and oil refined-- or, not.

What we do with our plastic, as it adds or decreases the momentum of the petro-capital economy has imminent ecological consequence. Even though our personal choices may seem small, we observe that over time as our choices reverberate with others, they gather a momemtum over that time that has enormous ecological consequences. In this way, ‘leading by personal example’ is one of our core principles.

As we have come together as the Global Ecobrick Alliance, we’ve realized that to deeply solve plastic, we also have to lead by our allied action, enterprise structure and principles in manifesting plastic transition, ecological value and Earth service.

“When you sit in council for the welfare of the people, you must not think of yourself or of your family, not even of your generation. Make your decisions on behalf of the seven generations coming, so that they may enjoy what you have today.

— Oren Lyons (Seneca), Onondaga Nation

The Global Ecobrick Alliance operates as a not-for-profit enterprise with the mandate of for-Earth service. This means that, unlike a company, we have no share-holders or owners who gather profits. It aso, means that unlike an organizations, we do not receive charity, grants or CSR funds. This way we are not beholden to agendas outside of our mission and vision, nor a mandate of growth and profits.

As an Earth enterprise our focus is on generation authentic ecological value.

Revenue Generation

Through our Brikcoin blockchain this value is authenticated, quantified and valued in regular currency. We then sell Authenticated Ecobrick Sequestrated Plastic (AES plastic offsets) to fund our operations.

The GEA develops workshops and trainings that raise ecological consciousness around the dangers of plastic. These courses are lead by our trainer team, and serve as means for them to fund their own work (profit is shared 80/20 with the GEA).

The GEA develops regenerative, open source products that are made to specification by makers local to the country in which they are sold. These products are sold by our trainers to assist with their practice (see our EarthWand page for an example).

All of our operations are manifested through our GEA Trainer and Core Team– folks who have been through one of our advanced trainings and are perpetually committed and resonant with our mission, vision and principles. Our trainer team is constantly running GEA Trainings around the world, and are remunerated professionally for these services by the community groups, companies, governments, NGOs or organizations that hire them.

“In a world with NFP business at its heart, profit is a means by which social and environmental well-being is achieved; it is not a goal in itself.”

– How on Earth, Hinton & Maclurcan (2016)

1. For-Earth Service

Our enterprise follows the Earth's example in generating ecological value. To do so we strive to follow the principles of Earthen ethics: to serve the Earth first by supporting biodiversity, raising ecological awareness and maintaining a net-subtraction of carbon and plastic out of the biosphere by our enterprise.

2. Leading by Example

We strive to ensure that the processes, methods, products and services of our enterprise are fully in line with our principles. We track and disclose our ecological impacts to ensure that the net result of our enterprise is the subtraction of CO2 and plastic from the biosphere and the support of biodiversification. We work to raise ecological consciousness and empower others to follow our example.

3. Open Source

We make our resources, guides, and code open under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licenses.

4. Gender, Age, Status Transcendent

We strive to craft methods and processes that enable the participation of men and women, young and old, rich and poor and everyone in between.

5. Fair Remuneration for Earth Service

We strive to cultivate a space and parameters so that our trainers, specialists and principals receive fair and abundant remuneration for their service to the earth. As our enterprise expands we will ensure a wage bracket to maintain a defined ratio from the highest to the lowest paid person in the organization.

6. Financial and Impact Transparency

We strive to make all our financials, both in fiat currency and on our Brikcoin blockchain transparent and accessible. We commit to disclosing our net impacts in terms of CO2 and Plastic.

7. Not for Profit

We commit to not-for-profit enterprise without shareholders or owners. At the end of the year, any unspent funds will be reinvested back into the fulfillment of our mission and vision.

Learn more about ecobricking principles

Ecobricks.org

We maintain Ecobricks.org (this site) as the go-to source for up-to-date ecobrick information, methods, data and best-practices.

GoBrik.com

The GEA maintains and develops the free GoBrik.com web app to support and connect ecobrickers and their communities.

The GEA has developed and now maintains the Brikcoin manual blockchain as a means to value the plastic sequestration ecobricking and to develop a medium of exchange based on ecological value. Brikcoins are generated and exchanged on the GoBrik webapp.

Ecobrick Best Practices

We maintain best practives and standards forthe making of ecobricks and the building applications of them.

Circles - Ecobrick Community Server

We maintain GEA Circles as a social media alternative for the global ecobricker community

Reports & Whitepapers

We actively developing and publishing reports, research and white papers on ecobrick and plastic transition topics.

Ecobrick Educational Resources

The GEA develops and deploys resources such as video tutorials on our youtube channel, photocopiable PDF guidebooks, Ecobrickable Design parameters and ecobrick trainings.

Plastic Accounting Coeffecients

The GEA researches, publishes and maintains standards for plastic equivalencies for regenerative accounting..

Academic, Scientific and Indigenous People's Dialogue & Support

The GEA dialogues with the scientists, academics and indigenous leaders to support their work reasearching plastic pollution and developing plastic transition solutions..

UK GEA Base

uk@ecobricks.org

Indonesian GEA Base

indonesia@ecobricks.org

Development Team

support@ecobricks.org

Media Enquiries

media@ecobricks.org

Circles - Ecobrick Community Server

You can also connect with us directly on GEA Circles, our social media alternative for the global ecobricker community