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The New York Times covers the new Subway at the Freedom Tower Construction site. Clivus Multrum composting toilets serve the workers and will rise with the building as it goes up. The Subway restaurant will provide lunch in the sky so workers don't have to travel as far. All the food waste from Subway will be composted in a Clivus Multrum composter and eventually used as fertilizer.

A few notes on the NYT article: "The waterless toilets and urinals are cleaned by negative pressure that pulls the waste into an evaporator that turns much of the sewage into steam." is not...

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National Association of State Park Directors Conference
From Ancient Roots the Future Springs

September 7-10, 2010
Location: The La Fonda Hotel – Santa Fe, NM
www.naspdnm2010.org

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October 6-10, 2010
Location: South Point Hotel & Conference Center – Las Vegas, NV
http://www.watersmartinnovations.com/index.php

Hear our Sales Director, Don Mills, speak in Las Vegas. His presentation, "Up S**t Creek: How We Got Hooked on Sewage and How We Can Break the Habit" will be Thursday at...

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The Washington Post travel section went to western Maine for an escape from the noise of the city. They found a cozy cabin in the woods with no cars in sight and composting toilets.

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The Seattle Department of Neighborhoods hosted an event in honor of the opening of the Picardo P-Patch community Garden’s new M54 Trailhead. A contest was held to name the Trailhead, Pic-a-loo sounds like a winner.

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Source: KOMO News, Seattle...

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The New York Times spent 36 hours in Telluride Colorado and they stopped by Alpino Vino wine bar at the top of Gold Hill. Undoubtedly while they were there they used the Clivus composting toilets that accommodate the highest wine bar on Earth.

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It may seem paradoxical to New Englanders who spent June carrying umbrellas to work every day to hear that Dighton has a desalination plant that converts saltwater into fresh, and that there are more such plants on the way in the area. “We’re hardly Saudi Arabia,” says Bob Zimmerman, executive director of the nonprofit environmental group the Charles River Watershed Association. “To find ourselves in a situation where cities feel compelled to turn sea water into potable drinking water in a state that gets 4 feet of rain a year is absurd.”

The problem, Zimmerman maintains, is that because of sprawl...

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Laura Allen, a 33-year-old teacher from Oakland, California, has a famous toilet. To be honest, it's actually a box, covered in decorative ceramic tiles, sitting on the cement floor of her bathroom like a throne. No pipes lead to or from it; instead, a bucket full of shavings from a local wood shop rests on the box next to the seat with a note instructing users to add a scoopful after making their "deposit." Essentially an indoor outhouse, it's a composting toilet, a sewerless system that Allen uses to collect her household's excrement and transform it into a rich brown...

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The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries flagship facility has 2 commercial-sized compost systems in conjunction with 3 foam-flush toilets that serve staff and visitors.

The LEED registered, 4,000 square foot former brick factory hosts the Rivers and Estuaries Observatory Network’s river observatory.

*Winner of SARANY Award of Merit in the category of...

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The Albany Pine Bush Preserve covers 3,000 acres of rare, inland pine barrens within the New York State Capitol Region. This new free-standing bathroom is located adjacent to the Preserve’s Discovery Center, which is designed to LEED Silver standards.

The bathroom is intended for trail users and for use during the Center’s off-hours.

Two Foam-flush toilet fixtures are associated with one large composting unit.

It will be highlighted in the Preserve’s school...

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