A Compost Toilet Workshop
PLACE for Sustainable Living
The Natural Movement—A Compost Toilet Workshop
DATE: June 13-14, 2015$95-$120 sliding scale, includes lunch, (with some limitations on satisfying dietary needs).
Early-bird Discount thru Friday, May 22nd: $85.
Enjoy the Sierra Nevada mountains while learning the ins and outs of compost toilets and sustainable sanitation with (no) water expert Nik Bertulis.
Workshop topics covered include: commercial compost toilets vs owner-built, wet vs dry compost toilets, urine diversion, hygiene theory, soil microbiology, disinfection ecology, treatment wetlands, and sanitation forestry.
About the Instructor: Nik Bertulis is an ecological design innovator, social change catalyst and amateur naturalist. Nik co-founded the water systems design/build firm Dig Cooperative that facilitated some of the first permitted greywater and rainwater systems in the bay area.
Nik has designed and built over a dozen Eco-San systems including the first zero discharge, urine diverting flush toilet in California. He is a co-founder of the Urban Permaculture hub, PLACE for Sustainable Living in North Oakland and teaches in the Environmental Management program at Merritt College.
Location: The workshop takes place at Panta Rhea Farm - a beautiful secluded, large oak tree and dry creek ridden ten acre farm-in-the-making near Groveland, CA. Panta Rhea is twenty-two miles from the entrance to Yosemite National Park and five miles from the Tuolumne River.
Accommodations: Free onsite camping is available with registration. The national forest is 10 miles down the road (tho limited camping options within 15-20 minutes) and the fun and friendly Town of Groveland holds many hotel/motel options.
During the workshop, we'll be are building a compost toilet inside of a large greenhouse, with a system that plants directly into the human biological produce stream!
This event is a co-produced by PLACE for Sustainable Living and Wholly H2O.