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  • From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Sustainable Sanitation Workshop, Jan 28th Oakland CA
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:58:17 -0800

The Natural Movement: Sustainable Sanitation Workshop with Hamish Skermer and Nik Bertulis Jan 28

Please Join the PLACE for a day long immersion into the fascinating world of sustainable sanitation. Renowned Australian environmental chemist and poo pioneer Hamish Skermer is visiting the Bay for a short trip and will be presenting his ground nurturing work composting hundreds of thousands of human "movements" at music festivals and Haitian refugee camps. Hamish's unique and successful approach to large scale humanure composting skillfully integrates the relationship between city hall law, ethical law, moral law and sustainable law.

Hamish will be co-presenting with fecophile and natural systems innovator, Nik Bertulis. Some of Nik's projects you will learn about include: urine integrated graywater fertigation, blackwater irrigated food forests, peepeeponics, poopooponics, struvite reactors, zero discharge evap wetlands and more.

Details

WHEN: Saturday January 28th, 12:00-5:00pm

WHERE: at the PLACE, 1121 64th St. Oakland (off of San Pablo Ave.)

HOW MUCH: $50

About the Teachers

Hamish Skermer

Hamish Skermer has a degree in Environmental Chemistry. He formed Natural Event in 2000 http://www.naturalevent.com.au/ and has delivered original composting solutions to events throughout Australia and EU. Natural Event composting toilets have been used over three million times by up to 500,000 people. Hamish has been a key advisor to Give Love, working on community-led sanitation projects to treat and compost waste, improve public health, and create jobs around recycling in Haiti, and is also involved in projects in Fiji, Cook Islands, Australian desert communities, and partnerships with eco-san organizations in US, Norway, and the UK. Natural Event's vision is "Changing the world from the bottom up!”

Nik Bertulis

Sustainable futurist, infrastructure analyst and amateur naturalist, Nik Bertulis works for the DIG Cooperative, an Oakland based ecological design/build firm specializing in integrated water systems. He teaches in the Urban Studies department at the San Francisco Art Institute and is an organizer for the start-up sustainable living center called the PLACE. Nik is also an avid gardener, tinkerer and bicyclist.


About Natural Event

Natural Event has designed and operates the most effective, practical, enjoyable and appraised toilet system for festivals, events and gatherings where people poo. Natural Event was created after the organisers of the Festival of Folk Rhythm and Life came to understand that the toilet system they had created for themselves to cater for a three day festival had national and international relevance.

Natural Event has risen to meet the demand that festivals have around the world, a demand that starts with the need to respect. Respect for the patrons, respect to the use of water, respect to reduction in energy needed to transport and treatment the previously massive quantities of waste produced

Patrons at camping festivals in particular always complain about the toilets. By firstly listening to the people, and then seeking answers, a problem turns into a hugely positive component of the event. There can be no real comparison of Natural Event’s impact with and a suck and pump system. We have no smell at all, even in the blistering Australian sun, five days into a huge camping festival.

Simply, Natural Event is the first company in Australia and we believe the world, to design an alternative toilet system that has the design and durability to service any demand. Natural Event Composting toilet Systems.

Natural Event wishes to give evidence that it is possible to change a huge festival or a small group for the better by having a decent, if not inspiring moment for the movement. By showing that we can achieve this humble aim with large numbers we are also showing that it is possible for any sized group of people any where to be able to manage their daily deposits with out fear, and with out water and energy being unnecessarily consumed. From Festivals and events, to weddings, to the suburban home to new housing developments to more primary concerns, the time has arrived to do more with less.








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