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EcoSan Hacks for the Northwest
The PSU Ecological Restoration Guild and the Student Water Resources Group brought us in to speak on campus last Wednesday about our hopes and dreams for ecological sanitation in the Northwest. You can see images from case studies we discussed in our powerpoint and watch the whole presentation. We focused the talk on toilets and [...]
Mathew Made a Movie
Using a lot of newsprint, duct tape, and imovie 6 in our basement Mathew made a kickstarter video for the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) If you’ve been looking for an at-cost balloon kit for aerial mapping, this kickstarter is to help PLOTS open up an online store to sell you one.
The Emergency Sanitation Handbook
Our students in the Sanitation, Hygiene, and Integrated Technology lab at PNCA have released the first draft of a hands on guide to managing your own sanitation after an emergency. It’s a fun, fresh, illustrated 16 pager that’s bound to save your ass in an emergency. We’ll be doing some final touches on it with [...]
Publication of the Year: Shit: A Survival Guide
Our SHIT lab at PNCA has spent the last two months putting together a publication on emergency sanitation. Right as I was headed out the door to go to our final critique I got an email from Carol McCreary of PHLUSH about a survival guide on shit put out by COLORS (yes as in United [...]
Portable Composting Toilets for Multi Day Events
The Cloacina Project with design and implementation from PNCA’s graduate students in Collaborative Design created an open source hardware platform for toilets, urinals, hand sinks and privacy screens for portable low cost dry toilets. Recognizing that hardware is only half the problem the PNCA students addressed the user interface by creating a training protocol, help [...]
Talk at Research Club this Sunday
Check out the video of Mat’s talk on why bathrooms are gross. Warning, it’s gross. We’re talking at noon on Sunday for our friends at Research Club. It’ll be their 19th Brunch and the first oen featuring composting toilets
Eco-Toilet Summit II: Human Waste and Why it Matters
Check out the full hand out from the Summit. It’s full of facts, figures and great resources on eco-toilets. I had the good fortune of being able to attend the 2nd Eco-Toilet Summit in Falmouth, Massachusetts on July 16th. The event was a follow up to the 1st EcoToilet Summit held on March 19th (Read [...]
Can Iceland Crowdsource their Constitution?
check out Good’s article on Iceland’s process for drafting a new constitution.
Understanding the low demand for sanitation for those with little money
Mat and I had a chance to hear Isabel Guenther speak on May 24th on the dynamics of sanitation and water investments as part of the Cewas program in Switzerland. Guenther is Professor of Development Economics at the Center for Development and Cooperation (NADEL) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). Guenther [...]
