Tag: Toilets
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Inside Northwestern's Off-the-Grid Tiny House
Northwestern's Tiny House Project shows how we can live smaller and more sustainable.
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Access to Safe Water and Sanitation Could Save 2.5 Million Lives Annually
If everyone had access to the most basic of necessities - safe water to drink and adequate sanitation - many lives could be spared. 2.5 million lives, according to WaterAid.
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Yes, Civilized People DO Have Composting Toilets In Their Homes
Waste is too valuable to just flush away. But can you comfortably live with the alternative? Laurence Grant does, and explains how.
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Indian Census Reveals Population has More Cellphones than Toilets
The results of India's most recent census show incredible disparities in access to amenities: 50% still have no toilet, but 63% have a phone.
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Smart Toilet & Sink Combo Uses Greywater to Flush
Flushing with drinking water is wasteful; water from washing your hands is used to flush the toilet in this water-saving toilet design.
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More Hot Poop on Composting Toilets: Biolan Icelett Freezes Your Poop For Composting Later
We have seen toilets that vaporize it and compost it, but this is the first we have seen that refrigerates it.
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Smart Meter, Smart Grid...Smart Toilet?
Portland is rolling out solar powered and motion sensors for energy conservation.
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Urine for a surprise: Bathroom Fixture Monitors Your Health
No more taking samples to the doctor; this urinal tests you every time you go.
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More Proof That We Should Change The Way We Design Bathrooms
New study shows how far bacteria can spread when toilets are flushed
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2011: The Year in Pee and Poop
Pee and poop is not just a reason for toilet humor. In fact human waste can be deadly serious. In 2011, there were a lot of stories on how we might answer nature's call a little differently. Here are our favorites.
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How to Install a DIY Rainwater-Flushing Toilet System (Video)
This simple-to-install DIY hack allows you to flush your toilets with rainwater, and to switch back to the mains supply whenever you run out.
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Foursquare Gets Peed On: App Combines Biological and Digital Territorial Marking
Most animals pee on things to mark their territory. Humans use Foursquared. Now we can do both.
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Sanergy Is Putting A Price On Poop and Cleaning Up in Kenya
People need toilets; flowers need fertilizer. Sanergy makes a business out of supplying both.
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"Poop As You Go" Biogas Bike To Go On 600 Mile Tour Of Japan
Never dreamed poop could get you blazing down the asphalt? Well, now it all comes true as Japan's biggest toilet maker, TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that's powered entirely by human
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History and Design of the Bathroom Part 6: Learning from the Japanese
Siegfried Giedion, in Mechanization Takes Command, writes:
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Minimalist Table and Stool Reduce a Work Space to Bare Bones Basics
At TreeHugger, we're a little obsessed with work space designs: desks made for standing, sitting, a little of both and even walking. Here's a design from British designer Adam Senior that takes a minimalist approach to
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The History of the Bathroom Part 5: Alexander Kira and Designing For People, Not Plumbing
Have a look at your sink after you brush your teeth or shave. There is stuff all over it that you have to clean up. You can't wash your hair in it. Alexander Kira of Cornell University looked at the
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Slow Food Gets Fast, Meets Good Design at Fastvinic, an Eco-Cozy Sandwich Shop
The other day I had a delicious local sandwich in the fabulous new space Fastvínic in Barcelona. It seems the Catalan capital has finally got a place where fast slow food meets good design (and not hippyness). What's on the
