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Earle Barnhart & Hilde Maingay on Sanitation Alternatives
We received a lovely e-mail from Earle & Hilde, who have been busy illustrating alternative urban sanitation systems that can solve Cape Cod, Massachusetts’ ongoing aquifer poisoning. Great flow...
View ArticleHelp Protei! Autonomous, oil-sopping sailbots
This is fairly off topic, but I had to cross post from my personal blog.. Protei is a project I whole heartedly support, and provide tiny bits of advice too. Cesar Harada has put together an incredible...
View ArticleGreenhouse & Sensorhub up and running
Check out our data streaming in at cloacina.sensorhub.org explanations and images of the greenhouse and electronics will be forthcoming.
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Tuning the Aeration of our Pile
We’ve built a compost pile that is designed to be minimally turned and composted in a vessel, so we’re using a blower to get air in, and we need to tune the aeration rate. Our first problem running...
View ArticleCompost-heated Greenhouse c.1750
Ním Wunnan points us towards the Lost Gardens of Heligan, where they have restored to operation a “pineapple pit,” a compost-heated greenhouse in fashion in the mid-18th century for growing pineapples...
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Eco-Toilets Summit, Falmouth, MA
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...
View ArticlePublic Laboratory wins a grant from the Knight News Challenge!
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,...
View ArticleUpdate: Note to Mathew, call people, don’t just google companies.
I recently had the chance to sit down with Brent from Hyphae Design Lab in person. Although they don’t say so on their website, they have extensive toilet experience and know exactly what they’re up...
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Our Sewer Catastrophe Companion was featured several months back on the excellent Discard Studies blog. Max Liboiron does excellent writing on waste, reminding people what it’s really about:
View ArticleThe Companion is a part of the official portland emergency plan
The Sewer Catastrophe Companion is now a part of the official Portland emergency plan! This is all thanks to the great work of PHLUSH.
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