Latest Stories in Bathroom Design - Page 6
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Planet Green on Bathroom Design
Eichler Bathroom from the sixties- big and bright
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Flatpack Portable Toilet with UnTreeHugger Name
Only yesterday our Queen of Tech asked "Any more downloadable designs coming in the near future?" That is the term we give to a lot of flatpack designs that could easily be transmitted by computer, and to many cardboard and paper designs. Sure enough,
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Green your Toilet Paper - Over is Better!
Current Configuration has put some thought into the poo-poo problem and has hit upon the solution - hanging the bog roll with the sheets coming over the top wastes less paper. The hand-made diagrams and flowery explanations are priceless, including
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Bidets: Eliminate Toilet Paper, Increase Your Hygiene
Two years ago, I posted an article about bidets, and it generated a lot of healthy discussion. Since that time I've gathered more information on this topic, and I've been testing out a bidet for about three months. I now consider bidets to be a key
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Quench Water-Recycling Shower - Guilt-Free Indulgence?
In our quest for efficient water use, this might be the first time we’ve come across a shower that recycles its own water for reuse [we’ve already looked at behavior-related conservation tips, like the navy shower and the selective flush, and we’ve
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Composting Toilets Work, Even in Antarctica
Petz wrote earlier about E-Base 2041, described by explorer Robert Swan: " We are using green, innovative and sustainable materials and applying them to the cleanest coldest place on earth. The E-Base will serve as a model globally and locally."
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Restaurant Built Out of Toilet parts
Just last night we listened to a lecture by Charles Jencks, who invented the term "adhocism", "the art of living and doing things ad hoc- using materials at hand, rather than waiting for the perfect moment or "proper" approach. As a principle of
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Universal Potty Pledge From 2007 World Toilet Summit
Here on Treehugger there is no shortage on the scoop on alternative toilets for those among us who desire better poopers - nevertheless, not everyone is fortunate enough to have the luxury of choice. Right at this moment, the India Habitat Centre of New
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Mister Miser: The Amazing Folding Urinal
In an example of what has be the perfect companion to the Dream Door fold-out bed, we present Mister Miser, the magical folding urinal that requires a scant 10 ounces of water per flush. TreeHugger loves space-efficient, folding design and water
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Composting toilets: Ready for Prime Time?
TreeHugger has floated the idea of composting toilets for houses before; the consensus among commenters was "Composting toilets are NEVER going to make it into the main stream market. Debating it is silly." Or is it? Ontario Green Party candidate Shane
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Staber: Top Loader That Thinks its a Front Loader
Normally I don't pay much attention to television adverts. But recently I had to go through the process of buying a new washing machine, so it was with interest that I noticed Fisher&Paykel; promoting their Aquasmart machine. The first top loader
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Navy Showers: Water Saving Goes Hardcore
Here’s yet another post that came to us via the ever diligent community at Hugg (thanks jerryjamesstone!). While water-saving shower heads can cut back our ecological footprint drastically (which is why Simran was promoting them on Oprah last week),
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Hot Poop on Composting Toilets: Separett
As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water
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More Hot Poop on Composting Toilets: Biolan
We were at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto this weekend, but soon there might be a whole spinoff, "Compost Toilet Life Show" , there were so many new products in the alternative toilet world. One that surprised us was the Finnish Biolan- we are used to
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Clivus Multrum at the Bronx Zoo
We look forward to the upcoming launch of Dave Praeger's Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by its Grossest National Product. The author has a blog where we learned about a new installation of Clivus Multrum composting toilets at the Bronx Zoo,
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Sinkpositive: Save Water, Wash Your Hands
TreeHugger has seen a few different water-saving sink/toilet combinations in the past, but there's always room for one more smart implementation of graywater recycling on these pages. Take a gander at Sinkpositive from Environmental Designworks, a handy
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Check that Toilet Drip!
Ever since the development of the cistern and the siphon toilet, flapper valves have leaked. The Wall Street Journal says that a leaky toilet is the most common reason for a spike in home water bills. The city of Portland, Ore., estimates a silent leak
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Microsoft Tries Again with E-Toilet
A couple of years ago the net was agog with news that MicroSoft was issuing the iLoo, a portable toilet with internet access. Alas it turned out to be fairly fragrant vapourware, and never appeared. It also was basically a chemical toilet and not
