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Category: Development

Nine Urine Pasteurizers Sold

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on June 8th, 2023. Categories: Development, Technology.

Brightwater Tools, Rich Earth’s spin-off company focussed on developing building-scale wastewater nutrient recovery systems, has sold nine of their pasteurizers (patent pending) to partners across the US. It is the […]

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Urine Recycling Now Open in Rockingham

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on October 25th, 2022. Categories: Development.

Calling all Bellows-Falls area pee-ers! We have launched a new urine depot (recently featured in the Brattleboro Commons) at the Rockingham Recycling Center. Area residents can now drop off both […]

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Launching the Gold Ribbon Commission

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on September 25th, 2020. Categories: Development.

We have officially launched the Gold Ribbon Commission in partnership with Nutrient Networks and Recode. Through this collaborative project, we will work to advance the regulation of urine reuse. Our […]

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New Farm Research Project!

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on July 26th, 2020. Categories: Development, Latest News, Research.

To date, Rich Earth has mainly tested and applied urine as a fertilizer for hay fields, using our custom-designed application equipment. (We have also used urine fertilizers for carrots and […]

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Board Retreat

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on January 11th, 2020. Categories: Development.

Rich Earth staff and board started 2020 off with our annual retreat on January 11. Led by Nadav Malin, Board member and President of Building Green, we were fully engaged […]

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Continued Support for Peecyling in VT from Long Island Sound

Written by Julia Cavicchi. Posted on November 4th, 2019. Categories: Development.

Rich Earth is honored to continue to receive funding from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund. We received two awards (one for planning and one for implementation) for 2019 during […]

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Rich Earth Institute Receives Multiple Awards From the Long Island Sound Future’s Fund

Written by richearth. Posted on January 14th, 2019. Categories: Development.

The Rich Earth Institute is proud to announce multiple grants totaling approximately $145,000 from the National Fish and Wildlife Fund’s Long Island Sound Futures Fund to divert nitrogen from the Connecticut River Watershed.

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Unveiling of New Urine Depot

Written by richearth. Posted on July 20th, 2017. Categories: Development.

The new urine depot is open! We have officially moved the urine depot out of Kim and Mike’s garage and are now at 116 Birge Street in Brattleboro. Located behind […]

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Spring Pump Out 2017

Written by richearth. Posted on May 25th, 2017. Categories: Development, Events.

On May 23rd Rich Earth staff Neil Patel and Konrad Scheltema accompanied Seth True from Best Septic for our Spring 2017 Urine Pump Out. Along with our summer intern Sean […]

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Residency in Yellow Springs, Ohio

Written by richearth. Posted on April 11th, 2017. Categories: Development, Our Team.

Rich Earth Board member Ben Goldberg led the charge on a weekend building bash in the old and cold (unheated) art building on the Antioch College campus for a week […]

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