Peace On Earthbench Movement (POEM)
  • Earthbench 101
    • Whats an Earthbench?
    • How-To Bottle Brick
    • How-To Earthbench >
      • How-To Foundation
      • How-To Earthbag
      • How-To Cob
      • How-To Plaster
      • How-To Roof
  • Earthbench Projects
    • 2017 Projects >
      • Tohono O'odham Peace on Earthbench
    • 2016 Projects
    • 2015 Projects
    • 2014 Projects
    • 2013 Projects >
      • SF Lowell HS Dragon Earthbench
      • The Compassion Corner Earthbench
      • Earthbench Projects
      • Laurel Dell Elementary Lion Earthbench
      • Flourish Foundation Earthbench - Ladak, India
      • Al's Peace Bench in Chimacum, WA
      • Honu Earthbench
    • 2012 Projects >
      • Kibera, Kenya Peace on Earthbench
      • Dacula, Georgia - Greening Forward Earthbench
      • Moab, Utah Earthbench
      • Veggielution Worm Earthbench
      • Bottle Brick Stations (DIY Landfill)
    • Previous Projects >
      • UC Davis Domes EarthBench
      • Philippines Bottle Brick Bench
      • Bolivia EarthBench
      • Ghana Bottle Brick Bench
      • Santa Barbara City College EarthBench
      • SLO CalPoly Peace on Earthbench
  • Join the Movement
    • Donate/Volunteer
    • Go Zero Waste
    • Build an Earthbench
  • About POEM
    • Our Mission
    • Our Story
    • Our Team
    • Media
    • Resources
  • Contact Us

...Our Mission...

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Transform Waste into a Community Place

The Peace On Earthbench Movement (POEM) empowers youth and community members to clean up the environment, repurpose their trash into a building material, learn natural building techniques, and then create a communal gathering area— a Peace on Earthbench—where they can share music, stories, and life. The Earthbench effectively seals trash from entering the worlds’ oceans and rivers while serving a clear artistic, educational, and social function.


How will a Bench Create Peace on Earth?


Peace on Earthbenches symbolize our collective desire for a more sustainable, more just, and more peaceful world. These Earthbenches empower youth to clean up the environment as they lead a community outreach campaign to collect discarded plastic bottles, stuff them with trash, and create a green building material—bottle bricks. These benches foster community interaction and collaboration. And when they are completed, they create a place for communal gathering—a reinvigoration of the commons.

The larger vision is to eventually build 1000 bottle brick benches for peace around the world, and retain one bottle brick from each bench. These bricks will be saved and eventually used to build the 1000th Peace on Earthbench in the Middle East, a global symbol of peace in the most volatile area in the world.

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