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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Construction on new bathrooms at Rio Grande Park is complete, and a soft opening is underway to work out the kinks in the facility’s state-of-the-art composting toilet system. The building project ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...

Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a ...

Five-gallon buckets are ubiquitous and cheap. But did you know they can also be hacked, hod-rodded, reengineered, and upcycled to create dozens of useful DIY project for homeowners, gardeners, ...

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 ...