toilet

The old folk wisdom that says place a brick in your toilet's water tank is partially correct: It's an effortless way to save water, but a brick isn't the best choice of object. Use a plastic bottle filled with water instead.

A new way of helping to save the environmnet and accomplish rwo everyday tasks at one time... Who doesn’t love the idea of washing your clothes and then using the soapy, dirty water to flush your toilets?

Our waste fertilizes our fields and is pumped back into the waterways that are our major sources of drinking water. Let’s take the journey from toilet to tap, shall we? A guest post from Simran Sethi and Sarah Smarsh.

One of the biggest water wasters in residential houses is the toilet.

Foremost Groups Inc, a manufacturer of home furnishing products, has released a line of High-Efficiency toilets designed to conserve water amidst anticipated widespread droughts in the near future.

A fun video to promote the use of urine funnels to allow women to pee standing up rather than going in nasty toilets.  

Learning from the developing world, some American parents are taking another look at ‘elimination communication” or EC, a practice that teaches parents to use timing, signals cues and old-fashioned intuition to address an infant’s bodily needs w/o diapers. There would be eco benefits...

With growing populations and diminishing reserves of clean water, some serious changes to the way we handle sewage need to occur. The government’s answer is to throw billions of dollars at it, but The Humanure Handbook offers many ideas to help people take responsibility for their own waste

The current engineering concept for dealing with human waste is to use vast quantities of water to wash it away, preferably into a sewer system where it will be treated before being discharged into the local river. The "flush and forget" system is expensive, water-intensive, it disrupts the nutrient cycle, and it is a major source of disease in developing countries.