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OMS 2010 Fall Mushroom Show">OMS 2010 Fall Mushroom Show
OMS 2010 Fall Mushroom Show Date: Oct 17 2010 Time: 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm Location: Cheatham Hall, World Forestry Center, Portlandl, OR Description: Annual Fall mushroom show open to public: General admisssion $5.00, Students and Seniors $3.00 What is a Mushroom Show? In a good year, over 2 dozen beautifully arranged tables of carefully [...]
works in progress
first pages from our zine on containerized dry sanitation, in progress. here are two two page spreads from our 7″x 8.5″ zine, half-size legal 8.5″x 14″ format. I like this size because the 17:28 aspect ratio of a legal page is pretty close to the 16:9 of widescreen HD. a single 7″x8.5″ page also adapts well [...]
Tanzanian Frustration with Infrastructure Funding
why are donors / financers willing to pay 16,000,000 EUR for a piped
sewerage system with central treatment plant but reluctant to pay 4,000,000 EUR to cover the same population with household toilets?
Now you can Buy
Our posters are now up on cloacina.org, along with a buy button.
Speaking at Cyborg Camp this Saturday
I’m going to be at Portland’s Cyborg Camp talking about waste management and human senses. There’ll be some good French sanitation history too! I’m back to back with Max Ogden- I’m practicing right now.
Links on the history and future of toilets
History Kris De Decker is one of my favorite technology writers, and up on Low Tech Magazine he has a great new article on re-use of human excrement, resource crises, and a 19th century Dutch and French vacuum sewers I’d never known about. Vacuum sewers are making a comeback. Future Both EcoSanRes and SuSanA (Sustainable [...]
GardenPool & Our Design Fiction
Molly and I wrote this piece of design fiction about using the suburbs for scrap last summer. And today in a Transition PDX is GardenPool, where they DID roughly what we were talking about! love it.
The Other WTO
The World Toilet Organization. Check out this amazingly comprehensive 158 page compendium (PDF link) of toilets, sanitation, and sewage technologies.
Peak Phosphorus vid from Phosphorus Futures
Taking the Pee (draft audio) from Dylan McIntyre on Vimeo.
Talking with RJ at DorkbotPDX’s summer party tonight
RJ Steinert, monitoring, dorkbotPDX
