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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New Video: Advancing Farm-Scale Methods for Applying Urine-Derived Fertilizer to Corn
How do you efficiently apply urine-derived fertilizer to a field of corn? That’s the question Rich Earth Institute has been exploring in partnership with John Janiszyn of Pete’s Stand in […]
Too good to waste: spring webinars on the wisdom of recycling human nutrients
You’re invited! Too good to waste: spring webinars on the wisdom of recycling human nutrients Toilet RewindMonday, April 27th, 12-1 pm PST, 3-4 pm ESTGet ready to peek into the fascinating […]
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 […]
Kick-off: Planning Peecycling for Franklin County, MA
WHERE: Sunderland Public Library, 20 School St, Sunderland, MA 01375 WHEN: Wednesday, April 8, 5:30 – 7pm Thanks to a grant from the Long Island Sound Future’s Fund–and the care and enthusiasm […]
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 […]
