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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

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.

Composting Dog Manure

Some others who browse USDA documents and dream like we do! GreenDog Cleaning Company, a dog and cat waste composter that began operating publicly back in January.  We’re excited to make contact- If the statistics in this Oregonian article are right, there’s room for 200-500 such businesses in Oregon’s 100 ton category.  Fascinatingly, Green Dog [...]

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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