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Talk at Research Club this Sunday

Written by molly on October 25, 2011 — Leave a Comment

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

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Public Laboratory wins a grant from the Knight News Challenge!

Written by Mathew on June 22, 2011 — 1 Comment

At the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, of which I’m a co-founder, we’ve just been awarded $500,000 by the Knight Foundation. Congrats to all my co-founders, Jeff, Sara, Shannon, Adam, Liz,Stewart, and to our whole online community, and thanks to the Knight Foundation! This is really going jump-start a lot of work! Read [...]

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Eco-Toilets Summit, Falmouth, MA

Written by Mathew on April 22, 2011 — Leave a Comment

I just got a great report back from Earle Barnhart of the Green Center on the Eco-Toilets Summit that he and Hilde Maingay organized.  What a glowing success!  You can read about it on this guest post I did for PHLUSH. I wanted to host here Earle’s finished presentation on toilets, following the nitrogen pollution [...]

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OMS 2010 Fall Mushroom Show">OMS 2010 Fall Mushroom Show

Written by Mathew on October 9, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Speaking at Cyborg Camp this Saturday

Written by Mathew on September 30, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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.

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Talking with RJ at DorkbotPDX’s summer party tonight

Written by Mathew on July 23, 2010 — Leave a Comment

RJ Steinert, monitoring, dorkbotPDX

We’re speaking at PSU on January 25th

noon on a Wednesday. Room 296 in the Smith Memorial Student Union (near SW Broadway and SW Harrison). We will speak about the recent history of urban sanitation, and the dual crisises of resource management and aging infrastructure driving the development and deployment of alternatives.  The talk will focus on case studies of alternative systems in the US, China, Germany, Sweden, and Yemen.
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