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Facing Drought? We Have the Solution.

BUZZ WORD Facing drought in California, solutions are needed. From Yahoo! News:

“For half a century the saltwater lake had slaked the thirst of the urban sprawl of several million that is Los Angeles and its surrounding area, with tributaries flowing into the lake diverted towards the city.

The result of decades of plundering Mono Lake’s water supply were devastating. A key island in the center of the lake became a peninsula as water levels receded, exposing nesting grounds of gulls to hungry coyotes and forcing the birds to leave.”

Ban the Flush with Flushie!

Yet another reason to Ban the Flush! and use a waterless composting toilet system.

The good people at HealthyRivers.org have a great little video starring Flushie that warns of the dangers of sending raw sewage into our water!

Via Treehugger via HealthyRivers.org.

World Water Shortages

Nathan posted on Greenthinkers a short video written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio that highlights the grim situation of water shortage around the world.

Worth watching.

Envirolet DC12 in the Clean Hub

We are proud to announce that an Envirolet DC12 composting toilet system is part of the Clean Hub, an environment-friendly pre-fab structure that will provide needed shelter and sanitation to people in developing areas or in emergency situations.

The Clean Hub is a project developed by Shelter Architecture in Minnesota and later designed and built as a prototype by University of Minnesota College of Design students.

Shelter Architecture writes that “as part of our commitment to social equity on a global level, we are continuously evolving the idea of a small scale, self contained ecosystem. The Hub is designed to provide clean water, sanitation facilities, electricity, and agriculture to remote, refugee, and slum settlements.”

The Clean Hub

How you can help:
If you are an American Express card holder, please take a moment to vote for the Clean Hub entry in The Members Project. The top entry in receives $5 million in funding to extend the project.

More photos coming soon.

Composting Toilets on National Geographic

National Geographic discusses composting toilets in this short video clip. Great to see compost toilets discussed and promoted like this!

The style and comfort of our new Envirolet VF will definately help bring composting toilets to the mainstream!

Via compostingtoilet.org.

10 Questions with The Sietch Blog

BUZZ WORD I was recently interviewed by The Sietch Blog about Envirolet Composting Toilets (of course!). You can read it here.

Blog Envirolet Composting Toilets!

Nutrition Facts If You Blog, We Will Link

As part of a campaign on Treehugger, we are asking bloggers to blog about Envirolet to get the word out about Envirolet, composting toilets, green sanitation and saving water.

As part of our call for bloggers, we said we would post links to posts about Envirolet. The first one is coming up next!

Water Shortages

Still not convinced that waterless toilets are the way to go?

“A new study comparing the most recent drought in the Southwest United States with other dry periods going back 508 years confirms worries that water shortages will become more common and severe.”