Education
Rich Earth hosts educational events and resources for youth, gardeners, farmers, and communities interested in urine recycling infrastructure. Check out our calendar of upcoming events to see what’s happening soon. Talks we offer include:
- Urine My Garden: Why & How to Peecycle at Home
- Pee the Change: Urine Diversion around the World and in Your Community
- Is Urine Fertilizer Safe? Understanding Pharmaceuticals, PFAS and More
Interested in collaborating with Rich Earth to host a circular sanitation education event? We’d love to work with you! Contact to discuss.
For Schools
Rich Earth offers workshops for elementary, middle and high school students as well as college classes. Activities include a K-8 lesson plan, STEM labs, an interactive water & wastewater treatment plant model, a circular sanitation board game, and more.
For Gardeners
Our ‘Urine My Garden’ program covers the basics of how why & how to reclaim urine as a sustainable fertilizer for home gardens, and can be tailored to watersheds impacted by nutrient pollution such as Cape Cod, 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.
RECLAIM – a serious sanitation game
Host a circular sanitation game night! This board game was produced by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Sanitation Planning for Alternative Nutrient-recovery Systems (SPANS) project through a co-design process with different stakeholders in both Sweden and Uganda. Through this game, participants learn about resource recovery from sanitation while adapting and collaborating with other players.
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.
Contact to inquire about booking a tour.
Rich Earth Institute Research Center
355 Old Ferry Road, Brattleboro, VT 05301
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.
