In the US, 30% of total power consumption goes to facilitate citizens continuing to shit in their drinking water.
We clear-cut forests in order to make paper with which to wipe our butts. Doesn't this indicate a serious problem with shitting somewhat ethically?
I consider this to be the sort of energy problem that has potential to encourage a just, sacred, and sustainable society.
Virtually no one is willing to be responsible for their own shit, literally (and figuratively, too). What would Permaculture do?
In California, composting toilets are against state law as the only means of handling shit. A house must have a water toilet.
Where I lived, in southern Santa Rosa, California, the ground water on the Santa Rosa Plain was all sewer water from local septic systems.
To whom is this acceptable?
Built wetlands have, as a by-product, septage that has to be transported off-site ever so often.
/The Humanure Handbook/ does not show up in searches on BN.com or alibris.com. Joseph Jenkins has shit figured out but no one likes his solution, apparently.
How shall we shit so we can live with the results?
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