On AlterNet: toilet

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "toilet"

One Family's Unconventional Solution to Save Water

Margaret Morganroth Gullette, AlterNet. April 20, 2012.

Self-composting toilets make a lot of sense when water is already a cause of national uprisings and covert wars.

My Kingdom for a Toilet: Summing Up the American Debacle in Iraq

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 13, 2011.

Don’t let anyone say that the United States got nothing out of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Americans take home a fitting prize: Saddam's toilet.

Smart Toilets? A Revolution May Be Coming to Your Bathroom

Michael Graham Richard, TreeHugger. March 12, 2010.

It turns out that there's a double-win in most bathrooms around the world with "NoMix" toilets that separate urine from solid waste.

The Toilet That Can Help Solve Our Water and Energy Problems

Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal. December 28, 2009.

There is a 'toilet revolution' taking shape -- and it may be coming just in time.

The Toilet: Our Greatest Health Breakthrough Ever?

Marco Visscher, Ode. October 24, 2008.

The toilet could be even more important than vaccines to our health.

Why I Don't Flush

Graham Hill, Huffington Post. July 15, 2008.

The toilet is the biggest water culprit in the home -- gulping down nearly one third of your total water consumption.

It Ain't Easy Peeing Green

Mac McClelland, Orion Magazine. November 13, 2006.

A woman realizes that while going to the bathroom ecologically meant peeing on trees and lawns, and working with a poo-only toilet, all she wanted was something that flushed and that she could sit down on.