Source: salon.com Published Date: August 12, 2017 (cjp via iStock) Matthew Wallenstein This article was originally published on The Conversation. Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer. What...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: April 9, 2015 by Charley Cameron According to the World Health Organization, some 2.5 billion people lack access to improved (ie., safe, clean) sanitation facilities, and so in 2011 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched the...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: March 19, 2014 The Sol-Char solar powered toilet zaps poop into useful biochar briquettes. by Lori Zimmer Researchers at the University of Colorado designed a new toilet called the Sol-Char that zaps poop into biochar using nothing but...