Kick-off: Planning Peecycling for Franklin County, MA
Thanks to a grant from the Long Island Sound Future’s Fund–and the care enthusiasm of our many Western Mass partners–we’re kicking off a 2-year planning grant to help grow urine […]
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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 […]
Peecycling Education Updates: Hands-on Lab, Urban Hydrolink, and Co-Design
We hosted an activity day for Pathways to STEM, a California-based science exploration program for undergraduates. Like last year, students rotated through a series of hands-on stations to explore key aspects […]
Introducing U-Grow: The #1 Fertilizer!
Our urine fertilizer–permitted for land application in Vermont since 2012 by the Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation–is now registered as an official fertilizer! “U-Grow” is made from urine collected through […]
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 […]
On-Farm Field Day: Soil Health and Recycled Amendments
We hosted a field day at the site of our research study on the effects of sanitized human urine, biochar made from biosolids, biochar made from sawdust, and compost (in […]
New Pharmaceutical Publication
We’re thrilled to share a new peer-reviewed publication summarizing our research on the fate of pharmaceuticals in urine fertilizer! This research project was a 6-year collaboration between Rich Earth Institute, […]
Community-Scale Peecycling Updates
Urine Donor Potluck We hosted a potluck to celebrate the community of over 250 urine donors who contribute their ‘liquid gold’ to our peecycling program. We shared research updates about […]
Partner Update: Soil Health & Climate Action in Uganda
Rich Earth is collaborating with a new project in Uganda by providing fiscal sponsorship on a small grant supporting the Giving Hope Foundation’s Soil Health and Improvement project in the Hoima […]
New Publication: Putting the P(ee) in Perennial Agriculture
A paper about the Land Institute’s urine recycling endeavors, “Putting the P(ee) in perennial agriculture: Reflections on a workplace urine reclamation project,” has been published by JAFCD as part of […]
FAQ: Do nutrients from urine fertilizer still runoff into the watershed? How is that better than the current paradigm?
In the conventional paradigm, nutrient pollution can come from both wastewater treatment systems and farms. In a circular paradigm, when we replace imported fertilizer nutrients with locally available urine fertilizer […]
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 […]
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 […]
US WASH Convening 2024
Julia Cavicchi (Education Director) and Gretchen Saveson (Research Associate) represented Rich Earth at the US WASH Convening on May 7-8 in Washington, DC. This convening, co-organized by Vessel Collective, Dig Deep, […]
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 […]
