Cape Cod Call to Action
Cape Cod continues to take leaps and bounds towards advancing urine diversion to protect watersheds from severe nutrient pollution: However, one critical obstacle remains: The State Plumbing Board has yet […]
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Rich Earth Institute & Brightwater Tools Open House
Thursday, April 30, 4:30 – 6:30 PM355 Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro, VT 05301 The disastrous war on Iran is leading to global fertilizer shortages and skyrocketing prices, threatening farmers’ livelihoods […]
Rich Earth Summit Deep Dive: Regulations
Learn about the regulatory landscape for urine reclamation and other source separation systems in these illuminating presentations from our annual Summit! Watch more Summit recordings on our Rich Earth Summit […]
Waving Goodbye & Hello to Long Island Sound Funding
We’re grateful for ongoing funding for our community-scale peecycling work from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Long Island Sound Futures Fund. We’ve wrapped up our project expanding implementation in […]
Call for Volunteers
Deepen your involvement with the peecycling movement by volunteering to help with some of our projects! We’ve listed a few options in our sign-up form, and will be sharing new […]
Brightwater Tools Update
Rich Earth’s spin-off Brightwater Tools is pleased to have received a planning grant from the University of Vermont’s (UVM’s) Leahy Institute for Rural Partnership. Working with UVM professors Eric Roy and Matt […]
New Merch!
Get your peecycling swag on with our new merch shop hosted by Worx, a worker owned union cooperative based out of Worcester, Massachusetts. While you’re here, you might also be […]
Knowledge Hub Spotlight: Two New Toolboxes
We’re delighted to announce two new additions to the expanding family of knowledge hubs to help you learn about why and how circular sanitation tools can meet your needs. See […]
11th Annual Rich Earth Summit
This year’s Summit took place in a two-part format: a place-based event on Cape Cod spotlighting regional challenges with nutrient pollution, followed by our virtual convening for the global community […]
Room to Grow
Two years ago, we asked for your help in building a new room at our Research Center in Brattleboro – to help us reach more people through our education work, […]
Indigo & (Liquid) Gold: Community Science Explorations
This summer, we collaborated with Putney School educator and artist, Rosi Olivan, to grow Japanese indigo (Persicaria tinctoria) fertilized with urine. We were excited about this project to: Plants were […]
Partner Spotlight: Toilet Equity
We’ve been excited to get to know the good folks at Toilet Equity, a nonprofit working at the intersection of public toilet access and resource recovery in Grand Junction, Colorado. […]
ECO AmeriCorps Gratitudes
For years, the ECO AmeriCorps program has brought a steady flow of eager and enthusiastic humans to the Rich Earth family. We’ve been honored to be a host site in […]
Update from Rich Earth’s spin-off, Brightwater Tools
Brightwater Tools continues to grow. Check out their updated website! FOOD WASTE to RESOURCE In addition to their focus on urine and overall solutions for sanitation systems, the Brightwater team […]
Cultivating Change in Long Island Sound Watershed
Over the past two years, we’ve been focusing education efforts on the lower portion of our watershed–the Long Island Sound–to help seed and grow a cultural shift in thinking about […]
Welcome to our Summer Interns! Feat. Guest Post on Peecycling at Family Vacation
Welcome to our summer interns, Charlie & Ben! Charlie Bartholio is a Geology student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a strong interest in sustainable agriculture and conservation. They […]
Seeds in Rhode Island: Ocean Hour Workshop & Merino Park Toilet
In June, we partnered with Ocean Hour Farm–an organization dedicated to investigating how regenerative land stewardship can improve ocean health–to host a workshop on urine diversion as a tool for […]
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 […]
