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Spread Pees & Love this Holiday Season
If you have a bottle and a garden, it can be absolutely free to pee. But if you want to spice things up for your peecycling loved ones this holiday season, urine luck! We’ve pulled together a guide to some of our favorite gadgets for urine reclamation. As recent NPR article concluded, number 2 (and #1!) toys “can be flush with meaning.”
For the person on your list who pees (and wants to celebrate it!):
Cubie & Funnel
This DIY urine collection device is both affordable and easy to use. You can pick one up at our headquarters in Brattleboro, VT for a suggested donation of $30 by emailing . Or get crafty and make one yourself! Watch our instructional video here.
pStyle
One of Rich Earth’s favorite stand-to-pee devices is the pStyle, a device that makes donating urine easy for those who need it. The simple design is easy to maneuver through clothing. The pStyle is great as an adventure accessory or for at-home use in combination with a Cubie & Funnel.
Toilet Hat
Not just a fashionable hat, this product is another great companion for your urine storage system of choice. Simply place the ‘hat’ under the toilet seat, take a pee, and then pour it into your storage container through the specially designed spout at the center.
Solar Dripper
This is the perfect tool for at-home urine fertilization. Precise, slow-release application has never been easier for your indoor houseplants or outdoor garden. Using variations in temperature, the Solar-Dripper ® releases drips according to the weather conditions. Definitely check out their YouTube channel for a taste of the results you’ll soon be getting!
Towa
This nifty tool doubles as a watering can and a chamber pot! The Towa was invented and patented by Åsa Lövberg and is available through the Swedish startup, Guldkannan. It has a 10 liter capacity and a lid that seals tightly to protect the nitrogen and prevent odor. Towa has been on he market for 10 years and already has over 15,000 users around the world!
SheFly Bold Pee Hiking Pant
“SheFly’s comfortable, multifunctional, all-season hiking pants with our patent pending zipper design have a traditional zipper fly and a SheFly that starts below the first zipper fly and extends around to the back of the pant, allowing you to pee without taking your pants off.” We bet these pants would pair quite nicely with a pStyle! Due to the impact of COVID-19 on their manufacturing partner in India, pre-orders are currently on hold but you can join the waitlist and be the first to know when they’re back up and running!
All People Pee: Written by Kim Nace, Illustrations by Kuukua Wilson
Remember Everyone Poops? Well there is now a companion book for your potty training child or grandchild: All People Pee. Our co-founder, Kim Nace, recently published this book with illustrations by Kuukua Wilson. All People Pee includes fun details about the different colors of pee, peeing inside and outside, and more. This is a great book for potty training, for kids curious about other animals, and for exploring the role of humans in the natural world. The book is targeted to 1-3 year olds but will be fun for all. The truth is: All People Pee! Wilson’s delightful illustrations provide giggles and fun through whimsical, colorful drawings.
Bladder Plush (Don’t Stop Relievin’)
This enormous urinary bladder plush is perfect for “telling someone when urine love, or explaining how to get aboard the potty train.” Each bladder comes with an education
al mini-book that “describes your wonderful pee-holding pal.” Also available as a wee fridge magnet.
Liquid Gold: The Lore & Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants by Carol Steinfeld
A great classic about the power of pee, read this book to learn the fascinating truth about liquid gold. Steinfeld outlines the broad range of ways that humans have used urine throughout history–from ritual to medicine to cuisine–as well as fertilizer, of course. This book will surely spark your curiosity and get those creative juices flowing.
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
This book played a seminal role in helping to bring our co-founders together and sparking the idea of Rich Earth. “The Big Necessity is an overdue exploration of a hidden world and of the world’s biggest unsolved public health crisis. It is a cultural, colourful travelogue around a fact of life that is common to everyone, as necessary as breathing, and a source of endless fascination, if only the toilet wasn’t a dirty word.” There are problems with toilets everywhere, and everyone can have a role to play in working towards a solution.
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers
“The MacArthur grant–winning ‘Erin Brockovich of Sewage;’ tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America, with a foreword by the renowned author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson.” America’s violent, racist history continues to manifest itself in our institutions and infrastructures, and the wastewater is not exempt. Learn about this history, the future of sanitation justice, and how we can #PeeTheChange we want to see in the world in this powerful new book by Catherine Coleman Flowers.
