PLANS for a waterless, compost toilet at a highly protected nature site have been put forward. The pre-fabricated standalone toilet requires no connection to mains water or sewerage and is also ...

San Francisco has a poop problem – in the city’s Tenderloin district alone, there were almost 10,000 recorded “incidents of human waste” last year, according to the Bay Citizen. So this fall, the ...

Today is World Toilet Day. For some, toilets are something we don’t really think about, and we certainly don’t talk about. The point of World Toilet Day, however, is to remind us that toilets and ...

A small group of graduate and undergraduate students have committed to meeting weekly to discuss options for enhancing the Yale Farm’s sustainability. Though still in their initial stages, the ...

We left our city lives behind to live off-grid at the top of a mountain in Spain. After two years of renovating an old stone ...

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A tennis date on New York City’s only public red-clay courts on a midsummer weekend can mean a two- to three-hour wait. With the soft grass and courtside gardens in this part of Riverside Park ...

The modern flush toilet may be a marvel of engineering but installing one on a boat or RV or in a remote cabin can be challenging. Flush toilets also require a steady supply of water, and the ...

Composting toilets use aerobic decomposition to break down human waste instead of flushing it away in watery sewage. Most don't use water, so they don't need to be connected to a city wastewater ...