Tag: Toilets - Page 3
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Food, Water, and... Permaculture? Rethinking Disaster Relief for Haiti and Beyond
A growing number of environmentalists are re-envisioning 'disaster relief' as something that can provide hope for the future, not just a hot meal and somewhere to sleep. Their tool of choice? Permaculture.
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Yellow Power: Making Hydrogen From Pee
We do go on about the benefits of urine separating toilets, and how we have to redesign our plumbing systems to scale up dry composting and pee separation. It is a valuable resource because of
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Best and Worst of 2009: The Year in Pee and Poop
Everybody poops. And everybody pees. And because dealing with that poop and pee is often a resource intensive and polluting business, it falls on us all to figure out new ways to handle human waste. From the difference between male and female pee on
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Biogas Systems Arrive to Haitian Slums
A pilot program is being tested in one of the poorest slums of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of the poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti. In a place where the availability of basic resources is limited and sanitary conditions are appalling, the
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Urinals Disguised as Trash Cans: Everyday Objects vs Anti-Social Behavior
From the shared flush to the selective flush to the superiority of male pee in compost, I was told by one commenter that my apparent obsession with urine was "a little creepy." But to paraphrase the famous book, everybody pees,
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Caroma Makes A Toilet With Sink Look Elegant
We have been showing toilets with sinks built into the lids of the tanks for years, including home-made and aftermarket plastic versions. Now Caroma gives us a dual flush toilet that they claim will save a family of four 30,000 gallons of water per
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Roca Toilet Integrates Sink, Grey Water Cistern
For LifeEdited, Graham describes his needs in the bathroom: The apartment needs to have a toilet, a sink, a shower, and perhaps a steam room. The setup should look great, be space efficient, conserve water and energy, and have low embodied energy. Must
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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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Plush Toilet Paper: Soft on Your Butt, Hard on the Environment
A recent Washington Post article tackles the tender issue of toilet paper softness. The article reported the market is glutted with super-plush toilet paper; they cited Quilted Northern
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Part-Time Diaper Free: Elimination Communication for the Rest of Us
Only last weekend I was musing on infant potty training and elimination communication (EC) - wondering whether it's really possible to go diaper-free if you're a working parent. (For more scoop on EC, check out
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The Week in Pictures: Zombie Attacks, Sockeye Salmon Disappear, Fiji Water, and More
From 9 million Sockeye Salmon mysteriously disappearing from Fraser River to Peta's latest ad "Save the Whales. Lose the Blubber. Go Vegetarian." -- that has feminists and progressive health groups outraged -- a lot happened this week. An exposé in
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Are Flush Toilets Appropriate in Third World Countries? (Slideshow)
While visiting Ecuador with the Rainforest Alliance, I expected to see a lot of outhouses. Instead, I found an extraordinary infrastructure of flush toilets in the usual public places, but also beside almost every home and farm in Amazonia. But is it
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The Biodegradable Toilet Teacup
(Image: Index Award) We've been reveling in the entries to this year's Index Award, a Danish design competition claiming to offer the largest purse in the world for such a contest: half a million Euros. The Bambulance is a thoughtful example of a
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Infant Potty Training: Diaper Free Babies?!
Image credit: White-Boucke Books Diapers: reusables or biodegradables? Until recently, I had assumed that was the only options for a coming eco-parent like myself. But somehow I had completely missed Warren's post on infant potty training (aka Potty
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The Week in Pictures: Obama's Battery Plan, Cute Critters, Clunkers and Other Cars, and More
From politics to taxidermy, a lot happened this week. Obama announced that $2.4 billion in funding will go to 48 different battery-operated and electric vehicle projects; cash for clunkers had a wild ride; we discovered a solar-powered forest, and a
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The Shared Flush: A Conservation Compromise for the Squeamish
I know that's a charming image to face over your Saturday morning coffee, but I couldn't help myself. You see while some TreeHuggers get crazy traffic writing about LED light bulbs, or silly names for whales, I must resort to revealing
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Pee in the Shower. Save the Rainforest
Water stories have a strange ability to create a deluge across the world's media. Last month it was the village of Bundanoon who voted to become Australia's First Bottled Water Free Town. Now it's a Brazilian environment group, SOS Mata Atlantica, who
