Everyone pees and poos, yet for the most part it is a private, secret, and DISGUSTING part of everyday life!
Here in the GOE, it is an honored part of daily life!
We recognize that sustainability is important, and starting with the basics is the best way to begin, so we are sharing our 100% free and SUPER sustainable decomposing toilet aka "New Paradigm Potty".
Even if you don't begin to value and utilize your "waste", then you can at least understand how and why it is so important and how easy it can be. It doesn't get any more basic than pee and poo!
Decomposing toilets are extremely important! Everyone pees and poos,
and in civilized countries not only is 99.9% of that just being wasted,
but money is actually spent to waste it--
while contaminating clean water in the process!
On the other hand, we not only save the money and water, but we also compost that pee and poo into perfect soil which we can then use to grow food.
Our New Paradigm Potty is made of 100% free, salvaged materials that is actually SAVED from the TRASH!
We have 2 stalls in our potty so that if someone has to go and someone else is still going there can be relief!
The main frame of the potty is made of old fence panels, and the doors are salvaged trash doors.
Each stall has 2 "toilets", a #1 for Pee and #2 for Poo!
We have nice hand painted instructions on the inside of each door so that anyone new can do their business properly. Even the toilet seats are salvaged from the trash.
We have nice photos (taken by @quinneaker and @everlove) in salvaged frames to decorate the potty, so there is something nice to look at while having a sit.
When you are done, a wipe is probably in order. We don't buy anything (especially disposables!), so we use the best materials we can find from waste resources.....We have found that phone book paper is an excellent choice that works and feels better if it's a bit moist! The IRS tax code manual was another primo option we had on hand.
Then we cover it with sawdust, which we of course saved from the landfill as well.
All of this goes into the bucket which is emptied daily into our isolated pee and poo waste composting site. After 6 months to a year, the soil is super nutritious for plants and also safe enough to put in your mouth without any danger!
This is one of many ways we save over 350,000 pounds of waste a year and operate at an almost unprecedented negative zero carbon footprint!
Not only do we save all this waste, but that waste is then turned into a valuable resource on top of it! This is a double negative carbon footprint alchemy!
Visionary and humanitarian example @quinneaker likes to say "we turn shit into gold", and this could be literal. If we were to sell all the compost we made at market value of $5 a pound, we would only have to sell about 250 lbs of POO to buy one oz of GOLD! Shit FTW!!!
We hope you're inspired to consider how your daily functions can add value to the world too!
www.intothegardenofeden.com
Isn't it incredible that people have been taught to be scared of their own natural elimination. It really is great to see how beneficial composting can be, and utilizing what is already available to do it. The circle of life is truly a beautiful thing. Thanks for this valuable post @gardenofeden.
And it's so much fun to poop outside!
Hahahaha--yes. I imagine there are many many many people who have never experienced that! You can scratch that off your bucket list now!
The IRS tax code manual... Hahahahaha! The new paradigm potty is totally awesome! It's a fun eliminating experience every time we're there for a visit. And to my amazement, it never smells in there!
Hahahahaha well there you have it! Fresh and so clean clean!
Plus you get to her the bride and the bugs and feel the breeze~*~
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I am happy to see that structure is still in full use! I'm honored to have played a part in building it!
Hey Brother!
Thats right, u dedicated focus to bringing this magnificent reality into being~
I recognize and appreciate you for that~*~
I am grateful for your appreciation @quinneaker
Bless~*~
You have done a great job wish you can help me build up one in ghana
If I'm ever in your neck of the woods, I would love to help you build one @quajo
I do not like human waste tho.
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Excellent post dear friends @gardenofeden I share with everyone what you say, as a child I practiced most of the processes, I lived in a neighborhood where there was no sewage, the sewer, drinking water and light, water consumed from cistern, bathroom Something similar to yours and light with oil lamp and corn, 90% of what we consumed came from our farm.
Thank you very much for this material
That's cool! Humans have had sustainable solutions for daily necessities for thousands of years, as you did while growing up, dear @jlufer. We want to remind people that these are viable, valuable options for modern life as well!
Wow @jlufer
90% is a very self sufficient life style. That is very rare these days. So great you got to experience that and also the "modern" life.
Thanks for supporting and appreciating these kinds of things. They are very valuable.
Great to get to know you and share our lives with each other.
Cheers
This is wonderful that I have managed to come across you. I plan to visit the Garden of Eden and many other similar communities in the near future!
Awesome, it's a different lifestyle than mainstream, that's for sure! Our sustainability is founded on sustainability, honor, and responsibility, and it's great to share these values with people who want to adopt habits that take all life and our living planet into consideration.
Indeed~
Everything is in alignment~*~
Sweet... I was thinking about writing a post about my super low-fi seasonal compo toilet. I may just yet!
Do it!
Brilliant post. Very interesting. I may well look into making my own potty.
Have fun! It's super enjoyable to go outside :)
It's actually quite profound--we're making EARTH!!
I already use pee on my compost heap, so I guess that's a start. 😀
DO IT!!!!!!!!
Great instructions, great pictures and a winning solution to stop wasting our drinking water! Resteemit for others to learn!
Thats right!
The solutions are actually quite simple and easily attainable.
Thanks for the support. The more re steems the more exposure, the more water saved!
Thanks for the support, @weetreebonsai!
Met an old native American near Hot Springs, Montana... his life philosophy was "Turdology." "It takes $hit to grow $hit" he said... you put cow manure on your veggies to make them grow... then you eat them and make more manure... Turdology.
While I lived in Austin, we used to get a marvelous fertilizing product from the city's wastewater treatment plant, locally known as 'Dillo Dirt. More turdology!
Cool, sounds like a wise man. We literally make Earth every single day, and it grows our food! It's an intimate cycle of life. Also great to hear that Austin at least recognizes the value of it!
Thats right!
My grandma had a out house and always had catalogs in there to wipe with. To bad I was to young to ask what they did with it later on. But I emember the nice flowers growing around it.
Lovely! There was a time when outhouses were standard and indoor plumbing was weird...
Awesome!
I do my part by pissing off the back porch. Not so much the pooing, except that one time I didn't pay my water bill.
Its a start!
So easy and better in every way. Amazing its not the standard.
Awesome post! 👍
Thanks for sharing!
Upvoted, Resteemed and Following!! 😃
Thank you for your support, @leemlaframboise!
No problem! 😃
It was a great post
We are seriously considering this method for our lake cabin.... It's amazing how our own waste can become the very soil that is used to grow the food we will consume!
Upvoted and following.... thanks for sharing your story!
It's the only option that makes sense for us! It's incredible to consider how many people not only forsake the value of poo--which actually becomes Earth which can then become food, but they also pollute clean water to do their poo!!!
Thanks for your support, @backrdadventures!
Great photos :)
Thanks, @rtdcs!
I ain't giving up toilet paper LOL~!
Thanks for your comment, @rawpride--it's actually quite profound! A lot of people have a similar reaction, and that's fine because everyone is free to do whatever they want to do. We invite you to give serious thought to your options, though.
Have you actually given it consideration? Are you aware of the resources, deforestation, pollution and taxation that go into creating a roll of toilet paper so humans can wipe their asses? In many parts of the world, it's common to use only water, so it's actually a cultural thing to buy a disposable product for a daily duty. In choosing how to manage your shit, as with everything, you have the opportunity to use your actions to add or detract value for humanity & our planet. We use our shit to make Earth rather than pollute it.
Every single aspect of life--right down to the toilet paper!--is genuinely considered in our revolutionary ecovillage, and that's what we're really expressing in this post. We encourage everyone to take a high degree of responsibility for their values & choices & our living planet.
I stayed at a AirB&B the other month that had one. The are surprisingly not at all smelly. When I have my homestead I will happily get one :)
Great to find you looking forward to more .
When done properly, there really is no smell. We cover our isolated pee/poo compost pile with hay, and it doesn't stink either.
I love how "friendly" you've made your potty! We'll be doing the same on our land, and I'm cautious about the day that my "I want my flush toilets" mother comes to visit our homestead. I think your bathroom would at least give her some food for thought.
It's a privileged society that can imagine that its waste and garbage can "disappear" at the push of a button. In reality, my family sees our waste as a valuable, well-designed resource that will be cycled back into our homestead's "system" to continue providing life, health, and fertility. Great photos!
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, @slhomestead! Our New Paradigm Potty has been a deal breaker for more than one individual who came here because they thought they could be all about that sustainable life. It's interesting to observe people's reactions to some of the most basic aspects of life.
Good on you for recognizing the goldmine you're producing every single day!
How sad and fascinating! The no-impact, sustainable life can sound glamorous to some when it only goes as far as organic kale and farmer's markets, but a sawdust scoop is hardly instagrammable. :/
I used to take teenagers on backpacking trips, and that was a fascinating study in human nature. The sudden realization of personal responsibility was sometimes almost visceral.
Oh, also, I laugh every time we visit our feed store and see bags of "Milorganite" for sale as fertilizer. Most folks don't realize it is the processed SEWAGE FROM THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, made nice-looking and packaged attractively. They are paying for crap. Other peoples' crap, and it's hilarious.
Hahahahahaha!!!!!
My husband regularly marks our territory by peeing at the edge of our usable land. We just started having a 16 year old come to help us out and he told him to do it too. He has spent hours here some days so I guess that city boy is doing it, no complaints.
If we don't use pee to give nitrogen to the plants, then we often use it to mark our territory too. It's primal instinct! Bet that city boy is having a blast peeing outside.
I do hope so. He certainly is a big help in our gardens for doing the harder jobs that we, with our aging bodies, need help with. He gets things done so fast!
My hope is that we are teaching him another way of living.
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thanks for sharing. this is an excellent post
Wow guys, you're incredible, that't awesome!
Hi. I am so grateful for this post. I'm sitting over here wondering while I feel so outnumbered when I confront the puzzlement at our current wasteful way. Then I see it's not just me that knows there is a clearly, simply more effective way. Still, I live in an apartment and I'm not sure where in my life besides in my bathroom I could take a shit, and where I could/ how I could find a place to put it. It's still a main concern for me, but I am realizing the homestead or whatever people call it, is probably the only place my shit will get taken care of. It's not that modern life isn't good enough, but I can't help feeling like Dorothy being chased by Almira Gulch, at least when it comes to taking my dogs out, and the neighbors peeking over their long noses to see if I take care of their mess. It's a daily confrontation, the displeasure of others over the poo me and my family makes. I will try to utilize a solution like the one depicted here. Thanks again.