Tag: Composting Toilets - Page 3
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Flush Less Water Down the Drain with Greener Bathroom Materials
Despite being one of the smaller rooms in most homes, the modern bathroom serves many purposes. It's a sanctuary, a room for pampering, and where we clean ourselves, but it's also where myriad household
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The Poo Project and Other PortaPotty Adventures
Winter is inching inexorably closer for our Northern Hemisphere readers, and for a few hardy souls (skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and alpinists) this will bring with it the excitement of days and nights spent in the snowy backcountry. The wilderness
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Kibbutz Lotan - An Oasis in a Desert Where it Never Rains
OK, it rains sometimes. For example, last year it rained just under two millimeters.
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Readers, Send Us Photos of Your Indoor Composting Bin or System!
Is the throne of your home a composting toilet? Did you invest in NatureMill's hot composter and divert pounds of meat, dairy, and fish from the landfill? Do you name the
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The Straight Poop On The Bio Toilet For Angkor Wat
Developed by
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How Far Are You Willing to Go to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
When it comes to saving the planet, there are a number of degrees from which one can place themselves. For instance, would you be
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Last Report of a Crackpot: How Much Energy to Use the Toilet?
Thermostat Chicken King In the game of thermostat chicken, Turboglacier is holding a lead. The blogger from Portland, Maine, has not yet turned on the heating. The "crackpot" title relates to Turboglacier's penchant for musing on
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GreenBuild: I Have Seen the Future and it Flushes
For a long time this TreeHugger has been promoting the idea of residential composting toilets, saying that " If we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing
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Ecopods: Shipping Container Housing Available Now
Dwight Doerkson has developed "an affordable eco friendly building that’s transportable and doesn’t need to be hooked up to the grid"- out of shipping containers. He cuts out an entire wall and hinges it, so when you want to leave your ecopod you
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How to Go Green: In the Bathroom
[by Lloyd Alter and Collin Dunn]
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Vancouver Office Building Goes "Off-Pipe"
When I last wrote about composting toilets, I suggested that " if we are truly going to develop a zero waste society and protect our water resources, we are going to have to start thinking about dealing with all of our wastes and not keep flushing some
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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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Waste Not, Want Not: The Future of Toilets
We have written before about the need to change our waste water system that mixes black and gray water and flushes it away; commenters were not impressed and wrote "Composting toilets are NEVER going to make it
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Feliciano dos Santos, 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner, on Ecological Sanitation
Can music change the world? Yes, if you are Feliciano dos Santos, one of the eight winners of the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize. Santos uses a unique combination of music and appropriate technology to push for public health improvements and advocate
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1% Water and Our Future: Art + Design Exhibition Gets Creative With H2O
Trying to impart the idea that our planet has a serious water shortage is a real challenge. It's most especially difficult to convince those of us that have hot and cold running water day and night that we really need to conserve this precious
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TreeHugger Tips: How-to Manage Humanure Composting
Our Green Tips project just keeps on rolling forward., with plenty of useful, inspiring video tips being submitted. From Gary Vaynerchuk's thoughts on car pooling to Lee Welle's musings on how to inspire environmental stewardship in kids, our readers
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TreeHugger Tips: Hacking a Composting Toilet
All the TreeHuggers have been asked to make a video tip for our new Video Tip project - readers are highly-encouraged to send in their eco-tips, as well. In our last phone meeting one said "now I will finally get to see what everyone looks like!"
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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."
