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Earth Day and the crisis you've never heard of
Earth Day got its start when Wisconsin Senator Nelson Gaylord called on US university students to organize Vietnam style demonstrations and teach-ins to bring attention to environmental degradation and push a new policy agenda. It worked. …….. Grassroots organizing brought together 20 million Americans in Earth Day events that first year – 1970. In 1990 Earth Day…
Read MorePHLUSH News Updates
PHLUSH News Updates In like a lamb, March went out like a lion, leaving PHLUSHers with a number of new projects. World Water Day Celebration Recode Oregon threw a great event at SEA Change Gallery on March 22 Great talk by Rep Ben Cannon who sponsored the gray water legislation in Salem. David Osborn…
Read MoreWorld Water Day: Celebrate Gray Water Reuse in Oregon
Observed globally on March 22, World Water Day provides a speacial opportunity to celebrate gray water reuse in Oregon. Thanks to the efforts of gray water champions in Salem like Rep. Ben Cannon and the folks at Recode Oregon, gray water reuse is now legal in our state. To celebrate this major step towards…
Read MoreIs Portland ready for urinals in recycling bins?
Although PHLUSH is willing to take on problems others don’t want to deal with, we’ve been pretty stymied by public urination. Our neighborhood now has great 24/7 public toilets so we’re losing patience with the practice and hate the results. When the temperature drops, it’s embarrassing to walk over those frozen stripes across the sidewalk.…
Read MorePassengers win two toilet access victories today
Passengers win two toilet availability victories today In a singular move to accommodate transit riders, the Washington DC area Metro announced today that there will be restrooms at every station on the new Silver line. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR2009122002030.html The American Restroom Association has long advocated for toilet availability for the capital’s extensive light rail system and…
Read MoreWorld Toilet Summit 2009 presentations now online!
We’re happy to see that all presentations from the World Toilet Summit on December 2-4 are now on line. Here they are for Day 1, Day 2 (includes our PHLUSH presentations), and Day 3. Since returning from Singapore, we’ve had to tackle the backload of work here and our reporting on the Summit has slowed…
Read MoreWhat is ecosan?
What is ecosan? According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosan Ecological sanitation, also known as ecosan or eco-san, is a sanitation process that uses human of blackwater and sometimes immediately eliminates fecal pathogens from any still present wastewater (urine) at the source. The objectives are to offer economically and ecologically sustainable and culturally acceptable systems that aim to…
Read MoreFinancing and Marketing Sanitation in Developing Nations
Financing and Marketing Sanitation in Developing Nations Meeting Demand. Jon Lane of the Geneva-based Water Supply and Sanitation Coordinating Council introduced the World Sanitation Financing Facility. Under the leadership of Arthur Wood, people in sanitation, social innovation, finance, commerce and the law are collaborating to make sanitation an economic activity. WSFF is a…
Read MoreExperts agree that sanitation brings high ROI. So where’s the investment?
Experts agree that sanitation brings high ROI. So why isn’t there more investment? Experts at the World Toilet Summit in Singapore this week all agreed that sanitation pays off. The World Health Organisation alone has shown time and time again that a single dollar’s investment in sanitation brings anywhere from $3 to $34 return in…
Read MoreSchools worldwide are getting kids to talk toilets.
Schools worldwide are getting kids to talk toilets. Although the Summit didn’t focus on educating kids about sanitation and toilet use in their schools, the importance programs in schools was salient. It seems to be something everyone is doing. And the messages flow from the school to home and community. Tan Puay Hoon introduced…
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