Essential Composting Toilets Book
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It addresses regulations and how to navigate them. Ideal for homeowners to engineers. Thank you,
Gord Baird, BA, ARCSA AP
Ann Baird, BSc
Essential Composting Toilets book is a practical guide to understanding various toilet systems from humanure, mouldering, dry toilets, (commercial and homemade). We are writing a book on composting toilets - the book title is Essential Composting Toilets, one in the Sustainable Building Essentials series, published by New Society, and edited by Chris Magwood and Jen Feigin, due out in fall 2018. The book is focused on an audience that includes home owners, owner/builders, home designers, architects, contractor/builders, and students in these fields. The systems being discussed in the book are primarily focused on residential applications. The goal is not to judge one system against one another, but to review the strengths of their design for various applications, in order that the audience will be able to easily review and understand which system best fits their needs based on the design considerations of their project. We would appreciate you sharing your experience of your composting toilet system with us, including the top four reasons why you chose your system, it strengths, what you don't like, how long it takes you to process, and any other details.
07/08/2023
Installing a urine diverting compost toilet can extend the life of your septic system.
Essential Composting Toilets-From Waste Stream to Main Stream A guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use. Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined, illustrated manual that takes a practical approach to system selection criteria, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.
11/25/2022
Our book publisher, New Society Publishing, has a book sale on from Nov 28 - Dec 5th. 50% off. Wow. Use code: Read50 at checkout. Most titles...including ours, Essential Composting Toilets. Makes a great gift. haha
New Society Publishers For over 40 years, New Society Publishers, activist and solutions-oriented, has published books on sustainability that are ahead-of-the-curve.
09/09/2022
I will be doing an 8 session workshop on compost toilets starting in October and running through November - details below.
Compost Toilet Course – Registration Open Enrol here – Early Bird pricing For more than a century, mainstream society has been treating water and waste from human systems as necessary evils rather than a resource. Practices that were…
08/05/2022
Finally, a full online course on Composting Toilets.
Check out the details and let us know if you are interested.
Please share with other interested folks...THANKS!
COMPOSTING TOILETS
Brand new course coming in October 2022 with Gord Baird
Compost toilets are beginning to make their way into regulations and standards in North America, being used in award winning commercial buildings to remote cabins.
What determines the type of toilet that is best suited for the usage?
How does one get the approval to install one?
What's involved in maintaining it?
The course objectives include developing a comprehensive understanding of the application of composting toilets within the multiple contexts of health and safety, regulations, appropriate toilet systems for varying applications and how to navigate the sustainability goals associated with these systems within the constraints that exist in our culture.
By the end of the course you'll have a solid foundation and great references to build your own system, work with a designer to create a system, or better understand the critical aspects from a health and safety perspective if you are a regulator. More subtly you will learn the benefits and potential pitfalls, tricks and tips in design and maintaining systems.
Instructor Bio
Gord Baird’s background and experiences stem from building the Eco-Sense homestead, a Living Building Challenge project that includes net zero water and waste systems, located in the District of Highlands on Vancouver Island. Addressing sustainable building, waste and water systems in the context of conventional codes and standards spawned an interest to change policy. An unexpected career developed from the passion to stir the pot of water, compost toilets, policy and governance. Gord’s policy work includes being a technical editor the Province of BC’s regulations on compost toilets and greywater, consulting for municipal and regional governments on rainwater harvesting for potable use and developing non-potable water reuse guidebook for commercial and multi-family residential building for a regional government, sits as an elected municipal counsellor, is the 4 year vice-chair for the CRD Regional Water Supply Commission, is an 8 year commissioner for the Juan de Fuca Water distribution Commission. Hands on work include co-authoring the Essential Composting Toilets book, designing and installing over 30 residential potable rainwater systems, a strata small water systems, and is an ASSE internationally certified rainwater harvesting designer and installer.
https://forms.gle/tNuL5QthsXM7YNtR7
07/30/2022
Here is an opportunity for an 8 class workshop covering the topic of compost toilets from system types, regulations, health and safety, and selection process.
COMPOSTING TOILETS
Brand new course coming in October 2022 with Gord Baird
Compost toilets are beginning to make their way into regulations and standards in North America, being used in award winning commercial buildings to remote cabins.
What determines the type of toilet that is best suited for the usage?
How does one get the approval to install one?
What's involved in maintaining it?
The course objectives include developing a comprehensive understanding of the application of composting toilets within the multiple contexts of health and safety, regulations, appropriate toilet systems for varying applications and how to navigate the sustainability goals associated with these systems within the constraints that exist in our culture.
By the end of the course you'll have a solid foundation and great references to build your own system, work with a designer to create a system, or better understand the critical aspects from a health and safety perspective if you are a regulator. More subtly you will learn the benefits and potential pitfalls, tricks and tips in design and maintaining systems.
Instructor Bio
Gord Baird’s background and experiences stem from building the Eco-Sense homestead, a Living Building Challenge project that includes net zero water and waste systems, located in the District of Highlands on Vancouver Island. Addressing sustainable building, waste and water systems in the context of conventional codes and standards spawned an interest to change policy. An unexpected career developed from the passion to stir the pot of water, compost toilets, policy and governance. Gord’s policy work includes being a technical editor the Province of BC’s regulations on compost toilets and greywater, consulting for municipal and regional governments on rainwater harvesting for potable use and developing non-potable water reuse guidebook for commercial and multi-family residential building for a regional government, sits as an elected municipal counsellor, is the 4 year vice-chair for the CRD Regional Water Supply Commission, is an 8 year commissioner for the Juan de Fuca Water distribution Commission. Hands on work include co-authoring the Essential Composting Toilets book, designing and installing over 30 residential potable rainwater systems, a strata small water systems, and is an ASSE internationally certified rainwater harvesting designer and installer.
https://forms.gle/tNuL5QthsXM7YNtR7
07/23/2022
Have you seen our website? Lots of "sh*tty" photos.
Sorry for the potty mouth post.
www.essentialcompostingtoilets.com
Essential Composting Toilets-From Waste Stream to Main Stream A guide to Options, Design, Installation, and Use. Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined, illustrated manual that takes a practical approach to system selection criteria, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives.
05/15/2022
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