Rich Earth shortlisted for the Food Planet Prize
We are delighted to share that we are on the shortlist for the Food Planet Prize! The Curt Bergfors Food Planet Prize is world’s largest environmental award and is dedicated […]
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Partner Update: The Land Institute
The Land Institute, a non-profit research organization dedicated to developing perennial grain polycultures, launched a urine reclamation project last summer in collaboration with the Rich Earth Institute. Deep-rooted perennials efficiently […]
Award-winning NOWRA poster on Nitrogen Removal
Arthur Davis (our Operations Director) and Ryan Homeyer (our Research Associate) presented a poster at the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA) national conference, representing our spin-off company Brightwater Tools. The […]
Urine Diversion: A Tool in the Toolbox for Cape Cod
IN THE NEWS Cape Cod Faces a Rising ‘Yellow Tide’ Scientific American, February 12, 2024 Cape Cod’s ‘power couple of pee-cycling’ wants you to save that liquid gold WBUR, February 12, 2024 […]
Peecycling Urinal at Hermit Thrush Brewery
Next time ur-ine Brattleboro, take a leak at the Hermit Thrush brewery! Grab yourself one of their delicious sour beers and once you’ve got to “go”, check out the bathroom […]
Learn about our Bellows Falls Expansion!
Rich Earth is expanding our urine nutrient recycling program to Bellows Falls, VT. We will be hosting a presentation and discussion about this on Monday, April 11 at 6 pm […]
Vermont: Stop Landfilling Compost From Composting Toilets
As Vermont embarks on its Climate Action Plan, how are our toilets helping us get to the sustainable future we need? Compost toilet systems can protect water resources, complete the […]
Global Shortage, Bodily Abundance: Urine Fertilizer Could Help Address Urea Crisis
Urine may be the unlikely solution to the urea shortage which is having devastating effects worldwide, from farmers in India to truck drivers in South Korea, as reported recently in […]
New Social Research Publication!
Distrust, Not Disgust—Fertilizers from Human Urine Implicate New Responsibilities to the Hopes and Anxieties of Communities JAFSCD article by Tatiana Schreiber, Shaina Opperman, Rebecca Hardin, Julia Cavicchi, Audrey Pallmeyer, Kim […]
Infrastructure Bill and VT Wastewater
The Rich Earth Institute applauds Secretary Moore’s April 28 editorial focused on wastewater infrastructure and the pending ARPA funding from Congress, and offers this response. Based in Brattleboro, our organization […]
Urine Donor Kick-Off 2021
The Rich Earth Institute is hosting an online event to celebrate its current urine donors and inspire new people to consider participating in this unique community program. For the first […]
MLK Day
“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I […]
Spread Pees & Love this Holiday Season
If you have a bottle and a garden, it can be absolutely free to pee. But if you want to spice things up for your peecycling loved ones this holiday […]
World Toilet Day & Trans Awareness Week
(Graphic from #IllGoWithYou) With the coincidence of World Toilet Day and Trans Awareness week, it seems fitting to discuss the efforts to increase access to safe sanitation in the transgender […]
Executive Director Announcement
There comes a time in any startup organization when a founder needs to step aside and bring in fresh and energized leadership. I am a firm believer that this is […]
All People Pee!
Remember Everyone Poops? Well there is now a companion book for your potty training child or grandchild: All People Pee. Our co-founder, Kim Nace, recently published this book with illustrations […]
New Farm Research Project!
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 […]
Rich Earth in Solidarity
These yard signs, created by Rich Earth’s graphic designer Briony Morrow-Cribbs, are available at the Bunker Farm stand in Dummerston, VT. Proceeds benefit The Root Social Justice Center. Acting from […]
‘Urine My Garden’ Workshops
We are launching a new program focused on peecycling at home! Our goal is to both educate gardeners about the safe use of urine as fertilizer in their own gardens, […]
Small Business Innovation Research grant from NSF!
In May, we were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $225,000 to develop a self-contained system for turning human urine into a concentrated, […]
Putting Down Roots – Building Purchase
We now have control of our Research Center at 355 Old Ferry Road, having completed an Asset Purchase Agreement with the previous owner, Sky Solar. We can expand into the […]
Peecycling in a Pandemic
As Arundhati Roy writes, the pandemic is a portal. Here at Rich Earth, we’ve been busy fostering regional and international partnerships for a re-imagined post-pandemic world, fitting the work we […]
Springtime Field Applications
This spring, we applied about 8,000 gallons of urine on three local farms: Whetstone Valley Farm, Fairwinds Farm, and Bunker Farm. Our systems continue to run more smoothly and for […]
Non-grid Solutions for the Future of Urban Water Management Conference
Abe Noe-Hays, Rich Earth Institute co-founder, was recently invited to attend the Non-grid Solutions for the Future of Urban Water Management conference hosted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic […]
Biozoners!
Kim spent some time on Skype with these amazing students from Michigan. Please read their guest blog post and watch their video… Hi! We’re the Biozoners (Andrew, Annabelle, Jack, Johanna, […]
Welcome to our new Research Center
The Rich Earth Institute has been a busy place this past month. On December 26th we moved into our new Research Center located at 355 Old Ferry Road next to […]
Rich Earth team travels to Michigan
The Rich Earth team recently traveled to Michigan for the National Science Foundation research project kick-off event. Together, with our University of Michigan and University at Buffalo partners we spent […]
Environmental Science & Technology Publication
The Rich Earth Institute’s first peer-reviewed paper has been accepted for publication and is available online in the Environmental Science and Technology journal. The article titled Urine Bacterial Community Convergence […]
National Science Foundation Grant
We are excited to announce that the Rich Earth Institute has secured $830,000 as part of a $3 million grant in research funding from the National Science Foundation. As part […]
2016 Urine Diversion Summit
2016 Urine Diversion Summit is about to begin at the Rich Earth Institute. This year over 30 people from around the country will gather on August 18 and 19. in […]
