Education
Rich Earth offers educational events and resources for learning about watershed health, sustainability, and ecological sanitation. We take a collaborative approach to education. Rich Earth is eager to partner with diverse organizations (such as garden clubs, watershed groups, and schools) to develop an event that works best for you. All webinars can also be offered as in-person workshops or presentations for partners in the Brattleboro, VT area. Check out our calendar of upcoming events to see what’s happening soon.
Interested in hosting an event for your organization? Check out our education offerings below and contactfor details and pricing.
Peecycling Education for Schools
Peecycling Education for Gardens, Farms, & Communities
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Consultation
Rich Earth can offer consultation services for individuals, businesses, and organizations interested in implementing urine nutrient recycling at different scales. Contact with inquiries.
Schools
Rich Earth hosts workshops adapted to school groups of different ages and subjects. Resources for teaching urine recycling in classrooms include a short animation, the children’s book All People Pee, and an online learning case (for advanced high school and college classes). View our full Peecycling Education Kit for Schools here.
Home Gardening
Anyone can safely and effectively reclaim urine as a fertilizer in their own backyard! Our educational resources are tailored to watersheds impacted by nutrient pollution, including the Long Island Sound and Lake Champlain. Learn more about Rich Earth’s tools for fertilizing with urine in home gardens on our “Fertilize with Urine” page, including upcoming webinars, a how-to guide and a community science survey.
Research Center Tours
Come take a tour of our research center to see nutrient recycling in action. Preview with a virtual tour of Rich Earth’s program. Rich Earth will give a brief introductory presentation and then walk you through the technology and processes that support collection, transport, treatment, and application as fertilizer on farms. The tour features Rich Earth’s laboratory, demonstration garden, urine transport truck, treatment technologies, and a “toilet museum” of urine-diverting and composting toilets. (Our research center is located at 355 Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro, VT).
Rich Earth Summit
Rich Earth hosts an annual Summit on reclaiming urine as a resource. The Rich Earth Summit brings together researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts to share what they have been learning in the movement to advance circular sanitation systems. Recordings of past Summits are available on our Summit website.
Conferences
Since 2013, Rich Earth staff have presented our work at a wide range of international and local conferences including: NiCE Hub’s Circular Economy For Climate and Environment Conference in Australia, Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), National Alliance for Water Innovation Conference (NAWI), National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA), International Waste Management Conference, International Biochar Conference, Closed Cycles Conference, New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA), New England Sustainable Energy Alliance (NESEA) Building Energy Conference, Slow Living Summit, Vermont Biosolids Forum, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Vermont Organics Recycling Summit, Vermont Grazing and Livestock Association, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sustainability Summit.
