Publications
The Humanure Handbook – A Guide to Composting Human Manure 3^rd by Joeseph Jenkins, 1999. Jenkins Publishing, distributed by Chelsea Green Publishing, PO Box 428, White River Junction, VT 05001. A very informative, exhaustively researched, and entertaining book that will have you turning turds into tomatoes in no time.

The Composting Toilet System by David Del Porto and Carol Steinfeld. Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention, P.O. Box 1330, Concord, Mass 01742-1330. 1999.

Lifting the Lid – An Ecological Approach to Toilet Systems by Peter Harper and Louise Halestrap, New Society Publications, 2001. This book covers information on potential insect infestations of composting toilets and strategies to deal with them that are missed by the other books.

Liquid Gold – The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants by Carol Steinfeld. Green Frigate Books, 2004. A welcoming introduction to the beneficial reuse and recycling of urine in household landscapes. A fecal-less first step to composting human waste.

The Toilet Papers by Van der Ryn. Capra Press, 1978. A guide and resource for composting toilets.

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/v/SqpIt1e2FDM&rel=1. This is a great video of an ecosan composting toilet in Bangalore, India by Vishwanath Shrikantaiah of www.rainwaterclub.org

For additional ecological sanitation alternatives do a websearch for “ecosan”. www.ecosanres.org is particuarly good.