Everybody can do something to make a greener Indiana
Crap Happens
Besides losing my job today, crap happens!
Crap Happens: A Grist Special Report on How We Dispose of Our Poop
A Grist Special Series Intro
Tom Twigg / GristThree hundred million Americans head to the restroom multiple times a day. The amount of sludge produced staggers the mind—7 million dry tons per year and counting. And it’s not even just crap—it contains residues from everything else we put down the drain, from the detergent in your dishwasher to the chemicals used at the industrial plant down the street.
Can the United States continue to flush all that waste down the drain? Can Western-style sanitary practices be replicated throughout the developing world without breaking the natural water and nutrient cycles? And what if the answer is that each one of us needs to start taking more responsibility for where our crap winds up? It ain’t easy being green as it is, but even the most diehard enviros may not be ready to live under the same roof with a composting toilet.
Journalist Catherine Price, a contributing editor at Popular Science and a 2008 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Reporting, gives a crap about crap. Over the course of three days, she’ll take Grist readers on a guided tour through the bowels of sewage. So grab some extra toilet paper and get ready for some straight poop on poop.
Day 1
Sludge, farmer’s friend or toxic slime?
Day 2
Regulating biosolids
Day 3
Business Struggle to Profit From Sewage Sludge
For some eco-pioneers, solving the sludge problems means getting their hands dirty
Weekly Grist: A special report on poop, a comparison of eco-shampoos, etc. www.Grist.com
Crap Happens: A Grist Special Report on How We Dispose of Our Poop
A Grist Special Series Intro
Tom Twigg / GristThree hundred million Americans head to the restroom multiple times a day. The amount of sludge produced staggers the mind—7 million dry tons per year and counting. And it’s not even just crap—it contains residues from everything else we put down the drain, from the detergent in your dishwasher to the chemicals used at the industrial plant down the street.
Can the United States continue to flush all that waste down the drain? Can Western-style sanitary practices be replicated throughout the developing world without breaking the natural water and nutrient cycles? And what if the answer is that each one of us needs to start taking more responsibility for where our crap winds up? It ain’t easy being green as it is, but even the most diehard enviros may not be ready to live under the same roof with a composting toilet.
Journalist Catherine Price, a contributing editor at Popular Science and a 2008 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Reporting, gives a crap about crap. Over the course of three days, she’ll take Grist readers on a guided tour through the bowels of sewage. So grab some extra toilet paper and get ready for some straight poop on poop.
Day 1
Sludge, farmer’s friend or toxic slime?
Day 2
Regulating biosolids
Day 3
Business Struggle to Profit From Sewage Sludge
For some eco-pioneers, solving the sludge problems means getting their hands dirty
Weekly Grist: A special report on poop, a comparison of eco-shampoos, etc. www.Grist.com
Comment
-
Comment by Tom Butler on May 15, 2009 at 11:23pm - The algae industry can turn poop into treasure and the technology convergence is nearly upon us..with no time to waste. Peak Oil is here and Peak Phosphorus is also!
Feed from the Indiana Green Business Network
Roll Up Roll Up – Green Fest Indy is coming to town
Kelly McNulty and Tina Jesson, who both live in Brownsburg IN, and Bill Mentgen came together to form Green Fest Expos Inc back in the summer of 2009 Bill, originally from Devour Colorado, had a vision of a large ‘green’ festival like those run in Chicago and West Coast, and when he saw that there was [...]Article Feed From Indiana Living Green Magazine
© 2010 Created by Eric Stallsmith
You need to be a member of A Greener Indiana to add comments!
Join A Greener Indiana