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Winners of “Reinventing the toilet” challenge

Winners of “Reinventing the toilet” challenge

In a move to promote new and affordable dry toilets, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a challenge to universities one year ago. 22 universities took part. The aim was to design toilets that can “capture and process human waste without piped water,...
Winners of “Reinventing the toilet” challenge

Mukura Forest – an almost lost treasure

Battle against many oddities by an IEES-related organisation. The Mukura Forest is located within the Albertine Rift Region in Rwanda’s Western Province, within the Congo-Nile crest. It used to be part of a continuous mountain forest from Nyungwe to the Volcanos...
Winners of “Reinventing the toilet” challenge

Room for Urban Agriculture in Rotterdam

Since 2007 a group of citizens in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) has been active under the name Eetbaar Rotterdam (Edible Rotterdam). Coming from different disciplines this expert group has been stimulating and initiating urban agriculture in Rotterdam, because they...
Winners of “Reinventing the toilet” challenge

Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

In a TEDx talk on Aquaponics of March 2011, Charlie Price of Aquaponics UK explores the role aquaponics can play in the future of our collective food supply. His nice, clear and interesting presentation is available on...
Winners of “Reinventing the toilet” challenge

Cool design: The Phyto-Purification Bathroom

Jun Yasumotos Phyto-Purification Bathroom is a nice design draft of a very small, very local, very closed-cycle, ecologically engineered private bathroom system. The aim of it was, to “bring to public knowledge this kind of water recycling process and eventually...