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<div class="splash-heading" data-lang-id="001-splash-heading">Spiral Design</div>
<div class="splash-sub" data-lang-id="002-splash-sub">Ecobricking and all ecobrick applications are guided by the Earthen principle of enriching cycles.</div>
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<p data-lang-id="004-lead-page-paragraph">When we build with ecobricks we plan for the end of the construction, for the next application of every ecobrick, and the next after that. This way we can be sure the cycles that result, enrich socially and ecologically.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="005-page-paragraph">One of the several core<a href="principles.php"> ecobricking principles</a> is that of <i>spiral design</i>. Unlike linear and circular design, rather than plan in lines and circles, we plan in spirals. This way, we can embed an enriching spin of short and long-term reuse into the way we put our ecobricks to use. </p>
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<p>Spiral design principle underlies every ecobrick method and application that the GEA endorses. </p>
This way we ensure that every ecobrick remains a reusable building block. This ethic also helps guide the way that we make ecobricks and the GEA recommended ecobricking techniques.
<p>Learning from the way ecologies infinitely and perfectly cycle nutrients over and over, we aspire to similar indefinitely cycling. In other words, we make and we use ecobricks using tehcniques that anticipate their next life cycle. Instead of the straight line of cradle-to-grave, we draw a circle. We make sure our ecobricks go from one “cradle” (usage/life/build/application) to the next, to the next with minimal energy and waste. This is known as cyclical design.</p>
<p>This is the reason that when we start an ecobrick we put a colored plastic on the bottom: we’re thinking of the next phase when we’ll build with it.
This is why we use silicone and not glue when we attach ecobricks to make modules– so that when the module/chair/table comes to its end, we can take it apart to use the ecobricks again.</p>
<p>This is the reason we build with earth rather than with cement– so that when our bench, garden or home comes to its end, we can extricate the ecobricks undamaged, and put them to use again.</p>
<p>Part of Cyclical Design also includes minimizing the amount of energy and waste produced in the cycling process. This is where the other ecobrick principles come in! By ensuring that our methods use local resources, are non-capital, non-petroleum, and community-collaboration powered we minimize the amount of plastic, C02, transportation, and energy required in the cycling. In this ayyew-way, we’re always striving for tighter and tigher cycling to maximize the regenerative potential of our ecobrick applications.</p>-->
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<p data-lang-id="008-lead-panel-paragraph">Today, the vast majority of the products we use go from their birth in a factory, into our hands, to their grave. Pollution is the result. Designs that fail to anticipate and plan for the end of a product are known as "cradle-to-grave".</p>
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<p data-lang-id="009-first-detail-paragraph">Unfortunately, products and materials that are designed to be 'circular' also lead to pollution and ecological depletion. Although, "cradle-to-cradle" designs that can be used over are a step in the right direction, if the external impacts of each cycle aren't considered carefully (for example the making and fueling of the factory that makes a product), a spiral of depletion will result. Alas, we see this all too clearly with traditional industrial recycling: each time a piece of plastic is recycled, large amounts of emission-intensive transportation, sorting, smelting are required.</p>
<p data-lang-id="010-second-detail-paragraph">With ecobricks, we do things differently!</p>
<p data-lang-id="011-earthen-principles-paragraph">Guided by the principles of <a href="https://book.earthen.io/en/summaries.html" data-lang-id="012-earthen-ethics-link">Earthen ethics</a>, the cycles of ecobricks and their applications are designed to be ecologically enriching: <i>greening</i>. Not only do we plan for the next-life of our application, we also plan for its subsequent cycles.</p>
<p data-lang-id="013-final-detail-paragraph">To do so, we leverage the resilient properties of plastic to create reusable building blocks that have a procession of short and long-term applications. This means that we ensure that ecobricks are both indefinitely reusable and that each cycle of building and dissembly contributes socially and ecologically.</p>
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<h4 data-lang-id="014-earth-example-heading">Following Earth's Example</h4>
<h5 data-lang-id="015-earth-example-subheading">Spiral design embodies the first principle of Earthen Ethics.</h5>
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<p data-lang-id="016-lead-panel-quote">"Observe the way Earth tends its processes towards cycles that spiral."</p>
<p style="font-size:smallest;" data-lang-id="017-earthen-ethic-citation">— <a href="https://book.earthen.io/en/spirals.html" title="Banayan Angway, Russell Maier, 'Tractatus Ayyew: An Earthen Ethics' (Earthen.io, Philippines, Indonesia, 2022), https://book.earthen.io/en/spirals.html">Earthen Ethic No. 2</a></p>
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<p data-lang-id="018-earth-greening-paragraph">For the last billion years, Earth has been slow and steady greening the surface of our common home.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="019-earth-cycle-paragraph">The way that Earth has cycled and stored carbon has led to the blossoming of the biosphere– while providing us an example to follow to ensure their own processes are green! With our plastic– which happens to come from Earth's ancient carbon stores– we can emulate Earth’s example of ensuring that our processes and outputs are not only spiral, but that lead to ever enriching cycles.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="021-earthen-ethics-basis">Following Earth's example of carbon care is the basis of <a href="https://book.earthen.io" target="_blank" data-lang-id="022-earthen-ethics-link">Earthen ethics</a>– five principles of green based on our planet's cosmological character.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="024-plastic-reuse-paragraph">In the same way that Earth tends its carbon towards cycles of indefinite reuse, so too can we with our plastic. By packing our plastic into ecobricks and using our ecobricks properly, we can make sure our plastic can be used over and over indefinitely.</p>
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<h5 data-lang-id="025-learn-plastic-story">ℹ️ Learn about: <a href="plastic.php data-lang-id="026-learn-plastic-link">The Long Story of Plastic</a></h5>
<h5 data-lang-id="027-learn-earthen-ethics">ℹ️ Learn about: <a href="https://book.earthen.io/en/summaries.html" target="_blank" data-lang-id="028-learn-earthen-ethics-link">Earthen Ethics</a></h5>
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<h4 data-lang-id="029-making-ecobricks-heading">Making Ecobricks</h4>
<h5 data-lang-id="030-making-ecobricks-subheading">Ecobricking and its application embody spiral design</h5>
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<p data-lang-id="031-lead-panel-ecobricking">Spiral design underlies every ecobrick method that the GEA endorses. This principle also helps guide the way that we make ecobricks and all the GEA's recommended best practices.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="032-ecobricking-practice">Some people wonder why, when we start an ecobrick we put a colored plastic on the bottom. Spiral design is why: we’re thinking of the ecobrick's next phase when we’ll build with it. This is also why we use cob or silicone when we attach ecobricks to make modules and not glue or cement. The first materials form a non-permanent bond, while the second are permanent. This way, when our creation comes to its end, we can take it apart and use the ecobricks again.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="034-inspiration-management">By leading by example in following Earth's example, our management of plastic can be a powerful inspiration for all our other materials and technologies.</p>
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<div class="lead-panel-paragraph"><p>This is the reason we build with earth rather than with cement– so that when our bench, garden or home comes to its end, we can extricate the ecobricks undamaged, and put them to use again.</p></div>
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<p>Every day thousands of tons of plastic flow into the biosphere. Meanwhile, the consumption of plastic and its production increase. In order to be a deep solution to plastic, a regenerative solution must spread at a rate faster than industrial expansion and economic growth rates. In order to maximize spread, adoption and collective plastic transition we strive to maximize the accessibility of our methods while minimizing the barriers to adoption. In this way, we empower others to make and build with ecobricks so that they can lead by their own example.</p>
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<p>Our principle of local replicability encompasses several of our other principles.</p>
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<li><b>Localized:</b> By designing with local, organic or upcycled materials (that are ideally freely available) we remove resource barriers to replication.</li>
<li><b>Petro Transition:</b> By designing methods that do not require machines, we remove the barrier of technology, specific skills and dependence on petroleum based energy.
Transcaste: By designing our methods so that they do not require specialized abilities we remove age, gender and geographical barriers to replication and empowerment.</li>
<li><b>Open Source:</b> By making our designs open source according to creative commons specifications and easily accessible on the web, we energize and accelerate replication.
Non-Capital: By designing methods and using materials that do not require capital, we remove the financial barrier to participation and replication. </li>
<li><b>Local:</b> We strive to use locally available resources in our community in the making of ecobricks and when we build with them. Ecobricking is all about packing our local plastic. This begins with the very plastic we have personally consumed, then extends to that consumed in our household and community. Ideally we use PET bottles that come from our community and a stick that comes from our area. This way we transform plastic that would otherwise cause problems in our area with the minimum amount of energy and the maximum amount of social empowerment.</li>
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<p>When it comes to building with ecobricks, the same principal of localized sourcing applies. We strive to use local materials, processes, skills and culture for our creations. For example, we have developed the ecobrick tube banding method of bonding ecobricks to make use of the abundance of free and ‘waste’ motorcycle inner-tubes in South East Asia. In the UK we learn from ancient earth building traditions of wattle and daub to combine ecobricks using local clay, straw and sand.</p>
<p>By using materials, goods, services and products that come from within our community and ecological region we likewise minimize our dependence on capital and petroleum.</p>
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<h5 data-lang-id="037-cycle-planning-subheading">From short-term cycles to long-term cycles</h5>
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<p data-lang-id="038-lead-panel-cycle-planning">The Global Ecobrick Alliance advocates short and longterm cycle planning.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="039-short-term-applications">The first and simplest applications are short-term: such as ecobrick modules. These initial applications are ideal for first time ecobrickers as they only require a dozen ecobricks. However, using silicone, these applications enable full dissembly, reuse, and making of subsequent modules.</p>
<p data-lang-id="040-long-term-applications">Once a household or community has numerous modules, they will also have sufficient ecobricks to build with earth. Once their modules come to an end, the ecobricks can be removed and used for building earthen gardens or benches.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="042-earthen-constructions">Earthen constructions also enable full dissembly. However, because ecobricks will be dirty upon extrication, they lend themselves to further earth constructions: such as another garden planter or bench.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="044-community-accumulation">As communities accumulate more and more ecobricks, larger and more enduring structural constructions can be built. Eventually, as communities accumulate thousands of ecobricks, structural earth and ecobrick constructions can be made-- such as those using ecoJoiners to build geodesic domes and hex-lattice walls. These structures, though significantly more long-term, remain fully capable of being disassembled. Both the cob and the ecobricks (which have remained completely secured from degradation all the time they were inside the earthen construction) have the potential for reuse years or decades in the future.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="039-designator-kit-description">A practical extension of spiral design is the GEA’s work developing the <a href="brickable.php" data-lang-id="040-ecobrickable-link">Brickable Designator Kit</a>. As ecobricks are essentially a catch-all for dead-end-plastic, they present an exciting and easy transitional solution for product designs.</p>
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<p data-lang-id="042-ecobrickability-design">Brickability allows designers to take their first step to spiral design. With a little forethought and advance planning, their product can be made easily and effectively Ecobrickable. This design direction allows the transition of a company to full regenerative principles (see our <a href="catalyst.php" data-lang-id="043-catalyst-program-link">Catalyst company program</a>).</p>
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<p data-lang-id="045-spiral-vs-circular"><b>Spiral vs Circular Design</b></p>
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<p data-lang-id="046-spiral-design-explanation">It can be helpful to better understand what we mean by spiral design by clarifying what it is not. Ecobricking, for example, is often mistaken as a ‘sustainable’ or 'circular' technology. However, these terms refer to enabling our current human systems to spin indefinitely by minimizing their environmental harm. This is not the goal of ecobricking!</p>
<p data-lang-id="047-goal-of-ecobricking">Rather than 'minimize harm' (and remain harmful), instead, with our ecobricks we aim at net ecological contribution. Instead of a static circle that spins indefinitely (no such thing exists!), we instead intend the way we use ecobricks toward cycles that enable richer societies and greener ecosystems.</p>
<p data-lang-id="048-spiral-design-inspiration">Spiral design is inspired by the concept of <a href="/ayyew" data-lang-id="049-ayyew-link">Ayyew</a> in the culture of the Igorot people of Northern Luzon. This Igorot concept inspired and guided the <a href="/story" data-lang-id="050-early-ecobrick-movement-link">early Asian ecobrick movement</a>, the work of the <a href="about.php" data-lang-id="051-gea-link">GEA</a> and the development of our <a href="principles.php" data-lang-id="052-earthen-principles-link">Earthen principles</a>.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 0.85em; margin-top:20px;" data-lang-id="054-learn-about-indigenous-wisdom">Learn about the indigenous wisdom tradition that underlies the Earthen ecobrick movement.</p>
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