PERFECTLY CIVILIZED: Ned Ryan Doyle will present a workshop at Living Web Farms on building an effective and efficient composting toilet on Oct. 29. Photo courtesy of Living Web Farms Editor’s note: ...

You might think it odd that we’d start an article about compost toilets by stating that no such thing exists. But they don’t. Composting is a specific process, one that occurs under specific ...

The campus of University of California, Merced, was one of the top 10 green buildings in 2012, according to the American Institute of Architects. Photo by Tim Griffith. A classroom in the back woods ...

With water-conservation ideas generating so much buzz lately, it”s worth revisiting an old technology — the composting toilet — to see if it might offer new solutions. Composting toilets have been ...

DOVER — Nowadays, we take such things as municipal sewer and septic systems for granted when it comes to human waste disposal. But for thousands of years, many civilizations have made prodigious use ...

The most radical “green” features of the City of San Jose’s new Environmental Innovation Center are concealed behind two doors marked “Women” and “Men.” There, plopped between the other conventional ...

“Make sure you use the bathroom before you leave,” my tour guide says, obviously delighted with the punch line she is about to deliver. “How often are you going to see composting toilets in a ...

“Making It” provides all the tools you need to build a self-sustaining and productive household. Projects are divided into five categories based on the amount of time they take: day to day, weekly, ...

When you hear the words “compost toilet”, there’s a good chance you immediately begin imagining some sort of terrifying box with a hole in it you want nothing to do with. That’s certainly what I ...

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The campus of University of California, Merced, was one of the top 10 green buildings in 2012, according to the American Institute of Architects. Photo by Tim Griffith. A classroom in the back woods ...