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[Ray Cirino <cobanation@yahoo.com>]

Dear Scott,
The oder issues are because they aren't maintained properly and that people 
think they are going to smell. Use glass blocks to let in the sun to rise the 
air and put roses herbs of all kinds on the intake vent of the small cob 
building. Find an artist to build cute microb puppets that educate the people 
and for good measure put the prices of sewage treatment plants framed on the 
wall. Don't forget the stories of how our oceans and water supply is being 
polluted. oh, but wait, there's plenty of leaves people rake up throw away 
 killing their trees you can use. Finally, find all the peddles of the roses, 
flowers and anything organic that smalls nice and make duff that can sweeten 
the 
load as a poopery garden soil. Hope that helps.

P.S. Europe has composting toilet everywhere and haven't had problems. It's 
just 
that the USA is really uneducated about it.         
 The Great Challenges we now face as a species present the very opportunities 
that are giving birth to Ecological, Psychological, and Spiritual 
Sustainability.




________________________________
From: Scott Vlaun <scott@moosepondarts.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 7:32:03 AM
Subject: [permaculture] Composting toilet for Community Garden

HI All,

Our community garden in Norway Maine is looking for a "best practice" 
solution 
to compost human waste on site. (Not for use in the garden)

Since the garden is in a neighborhood, we need to avoid any odor issues. I'm 
a 
long-time sawdust/bucket/bin humanure composter, but for a public site like 
this 
we need something that requires no handling of "live" waste and will be a 
good 
demonstration/model for the community.

During the season we might have a dozen or more people using the toilet on a 
given day. Winter use would be very limited, but it would be great to have a 
system that works in the cold as well. The site is off-grid so high electric 
use 
is not an option.

Any thoughts, links, or references to working systems would be much 
appreciated.

Enjoy the strengthening sun!

Scott


Scott Vlaun Moose Pond Arts+Ecology Design Solutions for a Sustainable Future
450 Main Street, Studio 2, Norway, Maine 04268 • 207-739-2409

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This was on hackaday lately:
http://hackaday.com/2011/02/21/farmbot/#more-35532
"Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP)....."
nifty, but I didn't look to see if it was open source or not.

It reminds me of another hackaday entry for software that
'fingerprints' plants by leaf vein structure, I wonder if it will end
up on cellphones cams for GM IP enforcement/avoidance?