permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

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.