Kicking Off in the Bathroom

By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture

What happens when it becomes too costly, unfeasible or, due to sudden disruptions to our energy supplies, impossible, to run our mains sewage system?

A Tour Around my Toilet

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

After a string of posts on eco/modernism, it’s time for something earthier.

Natural Buildings for Urban Living (part 1)

By Janaia Donaldson, Peak Moment Television

Wanting to demonstrate that “cities can be less impactful on the planet,” natural builder Lydia Doleman bought and remodeled a Portland house to demonstrate her values.

What goes around comes around or the importance of composting toilets

By Gwen Sanderson, Transition Network

It’s not difficult to get my dad talking about the past and the first story he remembered about times before flush toilets was a tale about his brother and his friend who snuck round the back of the earth closets in their Lake District village. Via the back entrance they took delight in brandishing stinging nettles at the backside of some local character named Mad Jack! The point is that earth closets only go back a generation. A useful question might be what was wrong with them that we gave it all up for water based sewerage systems?