New Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine
The Rich Earth Institute is delighted to announce the release of its new Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine. This resource provides farmers with practical insights into reclaiming human urine […]
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Partner Update: International Plumbing Code (Mathew Lippincott)
The Recode Model Code, a public domain code for ecological sanitation, continues to advance into the predominant North American plumbing codes. In December, Model Code contributors reconvened to revise and […]
FAQ: Is urine fertilizer safe to use, given that urine can contain contaminants like pharmaceuticals and PFAS?
The short answer: Some residual pharmaceuticals are present in urine, but soil microbes have a high capacity to degrade them, and controlled field trials have shown that consumers receive no […]
Rich Earth Palooza: A Celebration of Local Food Cycles
Saturday July 6, 1 – 4 PM WINSTON PROUTY: 209 Austine Dr, Brattleboro, VT 05301 Celebrate Brattleboro’s local food cycles at the Rich Earth Palooza–a day of fun & learning […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’re Hiring!
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 […]
Urine Fertilizer at Yellowbud Farm
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 […]
Watershed-Friendly Gardening
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* […]
Seated Pee Toilet
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 […]
Resource-Recovering Portable Toilets
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 […]
Brightwater Tools Spin-Off Seeks Software Developer
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 […]
Subsidies for a Urine Diverting Toilets in Vermont
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 […]
Rich Earth Spinoff, Brightwater Tools, receives $1M NSF Funding
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 […]
Urine Fertilizer Collectors on Etsy
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 […]
Flush: The Documentary Screening & Panel Conversation
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 […]
Community Urine Recycling Program Update
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 […]
Urine Nutrient Recycling on World Toilet Day
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 […]
Rich Earth Summit 2021
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 […]
Farm Field Day
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 […]
Flush Away 2020 with a Game
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 […]
Going Beyond the Toilet at North East Sustainable Energy Alliance (NESEA)
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 […]
