Posts Tagged ‘technology’
water reuse the simplest way
Posted by: Anca on: June 3, 2009
“Eco Bath” designed by Jang Woo-seok: this seems like a very easy way to implement a water reuse system, especially in residential situations. Here’s a little quote on the subject from the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Primer on Sustainable Building:
Ideally, treated water should only be used for cooking, drinking, bathing, and cleaning clothes and dishes. Water [...]
Green Funerals: Getting Techie
Posted by: Anca on: December 29, 2008
Fascinated by the concept of green funerals.
“Embalming became popular in the United States during the Civil War and is still a significant source of groundwater pollution today. Arsenic gave way to the less toxic formaldehyde as the favored embalming solution around the turn of the last century. However, formaldehyde poisoning can still be fatal and [...]
toilets of the future and other things I learned at the wastewater treatment plant
Posted by: Anca on: March 23, 2008
It’s only a matter of time before everyone will have replaced standard toilets with composting toilets. In fact, the IslandWood School on nearby Bainbridge Island, WA, uses only composting toilets. These devices would reduce the work a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) has to do to the organic waste we flush away. At the WWTP, new [...]
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