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Portable Composting Toilets for Multi Day Events

Written by molly on November 4, 2011 — Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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Compost Pile, Modified

Written by Mathew on June 21, 2010 — Leave a Comment

We eliminated the inner bin our our compost about eight weeks ago. The air gap between the thick wire and mesh bin channeled too much heat out.  Now we have just a 4′ diameter mesh pile full of wood chips, with a 24″ column of vegetable compost in the middle, and temperatures pushing 60ºC in [...]

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New Composter Completed

Written by molly on March 31, 2010 — 3 Comments

Behold the new rat proof aerobic composter!

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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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