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We’re Hiring!

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on July 31st, 2023. Categories: Uncategorized.

Rich Earth Operations Technician Put the ‘pee’ in Opeereations Technician, and join the Rich Earth team! We are seeking an Operations Technician to support and report to our Operations Director. You […]

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Urine Fertilizer at Yellowbud Farm

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on July 15th, 2023. Categories: Research, Uncategorized.

At Yellowbud Farm, farmer Eric Cornell explains that he sees fertilizing with urine as one part of the “symbiosis and the co-evolution of humans and plants.” Through fertilizing with urine, humans […]

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Watershed-Friendly Gardening

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on June 15th, 2023. Categories: Uncategorized.

At Shelburne Farms, Julia Cavicchi presented our “Urine My Garden” workshop. Our partners at Wasted* also introduced their resource-recovery portable toilet service in the greater Burlington area. Image credit: Wasted* […]

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Seated Pee Toilet

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on February 16th, 2023. Categories: Uncategorized.

Rich Earth is excited to become a distributor for a sit-down peecycling toilet that we co-designed with Toilets for People, a local compost toilet business. These pee-only toilets offer an […]

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Resource-Recovering Portable Toilets

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on September 30th, 2022. Categories: Uncategorized.

A huge thank you to everyone who used our portable toilets this year! We had our urine-diverting sawdust compost toilets at sites across the Brattleboro area, including the Brattleboro Farmers […]

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Brightwater Tools Spin-Off Seeks Software Developer

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on August 31st, 2022. Categories: Uncategorized.

Position Title: Software Developer Term: 10-12 hours/week, Part-Time Summary: A spin-off of the Rich Earth Institute, BrightWater Tools is developing novel, building-scale wastewater nutrient recovery systems. The focus of this position […]

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Subsidies for a Urine Diverting Toilets in Vermont

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on August 16th, 2022. Categories: Uncategorized.

We are excited to be able to offer subsidized installations for local residents, thanks to funding from the Thompson Trust. We can provide free site visits for anyone (regardless of […]

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Rich Earth Spinoff, Brightwater Tools, receives $1M NSF Funding   

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on August 4th, 2022. Categories: Uncategorized.

Brightwater Tools, which started in 2019 as a spin-off company of the non-profit Rich Earth Institute, has received a one-million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation’s Phase II Small Business […]

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Urine Fertilizer Collectors on Etsy

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on July 25th, 2022. Categories: Uncategorized.

A unique holiday gift for that person on your list who pees (and wants to celebrate it!): Rich Earth’s ‘cubie and funnel’ urine collectors are now available for purchase on Etsy. Or […]

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Flush: The Documentary Screening & Panel Conversation

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on June 13th, 2022. Categories: Uncategorized.

Come out of the water closet and join in the conversation! WHEN: Saturday June 18, 2022. Doors open at 1:40pm, screening 2:00-3:00pm followed by a panel until 3:50pm. WHERE: Epsilon […]

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Community Urine Recycling Program Update

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on December 15th, 2021. Categories: Uncategorized.

Arthur Davis works on our updated version of the pasteurizer, which the Rich Earth Tools, LLC spin-off aims to bring market for other communities to replicate what we do here […]

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Urine Nutrient Recycling on World Toilet Day

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on November 19th, 2021. Categories: Uncategorized. Tags: , , , , , , .

How can urine nutrient recycling support Sustainable Development Goals? On November 19th, World Toilet Day, we think in particular of SDG 6: the goal to achieve Clean Water and Sanitation […]

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Rich Earth Summit 2021

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on November 6th, 2021. Categories: Uncategorized.

We hosted our seventh annual Summit on reclaiming urine as a resource. Full recordings of the event are now live! The Rich Earth Summit brings together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts […]

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Farm Field Day

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on September 24th, 2021. Categories: Events, Research, Uncategorized.

We hosted a farm field day as part of our research project on trialing drip fertigation and other new application methods with different kinds of crops. The event was hosted […]

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Flush Away 2020 with a Game

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on December 23rd, 2020. Categories: Uncategorized.

December 27 – 31, 2020 Join us in flushing away 2020 with a special holiday game put together by our friends at the POOP Project, Loo Tours, and FLUSH. These […]

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Going Beyond the Toilet at North East Sustainable Energy Alliance (NESEA)

Written by richearth. Posted on March 28th, 2016. Categories: Latest News, Uncategorized.

For 42 years, architects, engineers, designers, and construction industry leaders have gathered to share their dreams of an energy  efficient and more sustainable built environment at the annual NESEA conference. In […]

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