Tag: Toilets - Page 5
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Eco-Club Wars: Dancers (Literally) Light Up Rotterdam's WATT, London's Club4Climate
Though Amy Winehouse, the pop singer I erroneously reported would open Holland's "sustainable" WATT dance clublast week was nowhere near Rotterdam (Iggy Pop & The Stooges were the opening act), there were revelers enough to light up the dance floors
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Eco-friendly Urinals at Expo Zaragoza Use No Water, No Chemicals, No Energy
We wrote about the Digital Water Pavilion and commented on how sustainable the Expo Zaragoza is in itself. However, we find the urinals of this Water Festival in Spain are worth an extra post as it illustrates perfectly how one small decision can make
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Bill Nye Goes to the Bathroom in "Stuff Happens" Premiere
Back when we were tooting our own collective Discovery Communications horn about the launch of the first TV channel dedicated to green living, Planet Green, we gave you a brief glimpse of the new series Stuff Happens. Now that the start of the 13-part
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Pee Green: Waterless Urinals Saving 22,000 Tons of Water a Year at Nankai Electric Railway
Nankai Electric Railway has introduced 73 waterless urinals at 18 stations on the Nankai and Koya train lines in Osaka, Japan. The urinals are the first of their kind in Japan and provide savings of around 22,000 metric tons of water and 12.7 metric
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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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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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Sherpas on Everest Highlight Climate Change Impacts
Dawa Steven Sherpa stood on the top of Everest late last month, (as did Apa Sherpa for the 18th time!) as part of the Eco Everest Expedition 2008. Their expedition was about the highs and lows of
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Reduce Your Cat's Carbon Paw Print With CatGenie's Self-Flushing Litter Box
TreeHuggers everywhere are working to lighten the carbon load on the planet. Some of us are doing a little, others a lot. Whether it's through offsetting your flights, taking public transport or by buying energy efficient light bulbs, there are some
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Integrated Washing Machine-Toilet
Take two essential household appliances and stick them together, and what do you get? This entry to the Greener Gadgets Design competition: the Washup washing machine-toilet by Sevin Coskun. With a space-saving design that includes graywater recycling,
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Mobile Phone Messaging For Tidy Toilets
The SMS (short message service) is an institution in Scandinavia, and its use is saving time and paper in a number of applications - the Vasttrafik transit system in Sweden lets tram and bus travelers send an SMS (the ticket fee appears on the phone
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Guerilla Plumbing: Hack Your Friends' Toilets (NOT)
EarthThreat suggests that the next time you are at a party, hack your host's toilet by lifting the tank lid and bending the rod connected to the float so that the float is a little lower, shutting off the water a little earlier. "Think about all of the
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Atlanta Collar Counties Getting Serious On Water Use
This took awhile; but, Atlanta's suburbs at last seem headed in the right direction, considering, for example, ordinances that favor more water efficient toilets.
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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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TreeHugger Picks: Saving Some Precious Water
1) If the recent ongoing droughts in the US can teach us anything, hopefully it's that they, along with other extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change are also making fresh water an increasingly scarce commodity. In fact, the struggle over
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TH Forums Highlights: Tissues, Toilets, Plastics and More
1) Forums user Maurices5000 starts an interested thread about water conservation and low-flow and dual-flush toilets. Did you know that people actually smuggle those things from Canada to the US? In any event, there are lots of perspectives here, from
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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,
