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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, Charlie & Ben! Charlie Bartholio is a Geology student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a strong interest in sustainable agriculture and conservation. They […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over 3,500,000 gallons of water saved since 2013!
