Publications

The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, by Joseph Jenkins. Jenkins Publishing, 2005, www.jenkinspublishing.com.

The Composting Toilet System Book: A Practical Guide to Choosing, Planning and Maintaining Composting Toilet Systems, an Alternative to Sewer and Septic Systems, by David Del Porto and Carol Steinfeld. Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention, 2000.

Lifting the Lid: An Ecological Approach to Toilet Systems, by Peter Harper and Louise Halestrap. New Society Publications, 2001.

Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants, by Carol Steinfeld. Green Frigate Books, 2004.

Composting Toilets. EPA Technology Fact Sheet. Online: www.epa.gov/owm/mtb/comp.pdf.

To acquire building plans for the Minimus and Farallones Batch composting toilets contact Ray Flanagan at rayflanagan@nor.com.au

Online (in addition to above)

www.omick.net. Living Outside the Box. A wonderful website highlighting the on-going exploration of some practical aspects of simple, land-integrated living. David Omick and Pearl Mast offer the best dryland composting toilet information and workshops I’ve come across.

www.ersson.sustainabilitylane.com/. This is a wonderful site documenting Ole and Maitri Ersson’s living experiments with composting toilets, rainwater harvesting systems, small houses, and more.

www.ecolotree.com. Information on using trees to help filter soil and water.

www.youtube.com/v/BLh-bAiddeQ&rel=1. Great video by Vishwanath of www.rainwaterclub.org on an ecosan composting toilet at a home in Bangalore, India.

http://www.clearwater.asn.au/infoexchangedetails.cfm?ID=519. A study of 20 owner-built composting toilets built to three generic designs (the large continuous flow Minimus, the large Farallones Batch, and the small Barrel Batch) in the Lismore region, New South Wales, Australia.

http://www.clearwater.asn.au/infoexchangedetails.cfm?ID=523. A technical sheet, prepared by Souther Cross University, Lismore, Australia as a part of the Septic Safe Program, provides generic information about composting toilets and contains a list of references for additional information about such systems. The waterless composting toilet (WCT) is one of a number of emerging technologies which address the ecological shortcomings of the standard water closet and its associated plumbing.

Organization

Sulabh International Social Service Organization, www.sulabhinternational.org. A Gandhian organization promoting the use of low-cost low flush and dry toilets from which the deposited material can be made into fertilizer for the growing of food crops and biogas for cooking and lighting (see the Technical Research and Training section of their website). They also have an enlightening toilet museum and do great work empowering the people of lower castes in India.