Essential composting toilets : a guide to options, design, installation, and use / Gord Baird and Ann Baird.
Record details
- ISBN: 0865718725
- ISBN: 9780865718722
- Physical Description: ix, 181 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
- Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ℗♭2019
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Safe composting -- System components and processes -- Design considerations -- Commode batch systems -- Chambered/moldering batch systems -- Continuous systems -- Fluid management -- Best practices -- The last flush -- Percolation test procedure -- Manufacturers -- Glossary. |
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Subject: | Toilets > Design and construction. Compost. Sewage as fertilizer. Night soil. |
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Gord Baird, BA, ARCSA AP and Ann Baird, BSc are the co-creators, designers, and builders of the award winning Eco-Sense home in Victoria, BC, Canada, the first internationally recognized Living Building Challenge petal residential project. They implemented greywater systems, rainwater harvesting, and composting toilets into North America's first legal two-story seismically engineered load-bearing cob home. Gord is Water Commissioner for the Capital Regional District's regional Water Supply Commission and Juan de Fuca Water Distribution Commission, and was a technical editor for the BC Ministry of Health's Manual of Composting Toilets and Greywater Standard Practices (2016). Ann works on regional climate action initiatives involving water, food, and energy resiliency in climate adaptation and risk management. They currently give tours of their Eco-sense permaculture homestead in Victoria, BC. www.eco-sense.ca.