Alrighty! After months of hard work and focused collaboration, we are super proud to announce the launch of our new, world class, Ecobricks.org website– in time for the coverage of the Indonesian Ecobrick movement this week on CNN. Rallying around the mission of keeping plastic out of the biosphere, the awesome new site is a testament to the power of collaboration. The site is coalescence of creative energies of artists, illustrators, writers, translators, patrons, programmers, designers and more.

Our site is revamped from the bottom up. Thanks to the guidance of web maestro Reinardt Gilfillan our site is running the stellar Divi 3.0 wordpress theme– making it fully desktop, tablet and mobile friendly. Thanks to Rick Smith‘s guidance and support we’ve revamped our content system with free access and a πPatron membershp that enables you to support the movement. Thanks to the contribution of the programmers at OntheGoSystems we’re running their WMPL multi-language management tool– which will enable us to deploy our site through volunteer translation fast and furious. Thanks to WPGoogleMaps, we have their pro map software installed for a collaborative map of ecobrickers around the world. Thanks to a donation by Trisha Joe we got an old laptop revamped with Ubuntu to work on the site.

Our servers and software keep running with the support of dozens of πPatrons who support ecobricks with 3.14$ donations– thank you! Speical thanks to Andy Dieleman, Elle Dunbar, Leslie Gaudette, Shåne Deptöck and Clayton Horton who have helped us along with the costs to launch the next phase of Ecobricks.org
Virtually every page on the site is revamp with fresh pictures, drawing and content. This new site and content will be a backbone for the movement for the next years and countries to come. Here’s a quick summary of some of the changes:
- New How to Ecobrick page: Ecobricking is pretty simple, but after three years we’ve revamped this unchanged page with a clearer methodology, new steps, and density minimums.
- New Why Make Ecobricks page: Recently a poorly made viral-vid got us lots of skeptical questions! We’ve thus gone back, and laid out clearly the reasons, science and why ecobricking is important. There are there were more than we thought!
- New Support Section: These days we get emails from around the world on a daily basis about ecobricks. To help get the answers up publicly we now have a tech support section on our site.
- New Training Page: We’ve now got the full list of ecobrick training workshops up on an engaging page. Plus, now we’re offering online Skype Trainings.
- About Us page revamped with Mission, Vision and Dedication in the forefront.
- Ecobricks Building Techniques is revamped to simply show the five main building methods with engaging diagrams and photos, with links to more information.
- Plastic is Poison: The core reason for ecobricking! We now have a front and center page all about the dangers of plastic.
And more! Discover our new site for yourself. Be sure to click through for the downloads and signup. We’re working on next on deploying the translations of the new site. If you’d like to help us out, drop us a line.