In fact, in my small community of 800 people, about half live without flush toilets and instead use an outhouse. This means my wife and I venture outside whenever nature calls — even in the winter ...

With these constraints, compost toilets emerge as the perfect option for answering the calls of nature. Composting toilets work by separating liquid and solid waste, then storing the former and ...

All these features and more, including a self-closing lid for the forgetful ... you can still answer nature’s call by installing a composting toilet. They’ve been around for years.

When designing an off-grid home, one of the more awkward things to consider is how you're going to tackle the toilet problem. Without access to a municipal sewage connection, you might have to get a ...

For this piece, I concentrated on basic portable camping toilets that have a holding tank for fresh and black water with a simple flush. I did not include composting or cassette toilets. Below are ...

Charlotte Wood’s novel, a Booker Prize finalist, follows an atheist whose mysterious path led her to live among nuns in a ...

Tiny Writer's Cabin is designed to give private space for creative heads for their creativity to flow in a convenient ...

Though this DIY tiny home might not be as shiny as a ready-built model, it's stunning and speaks volumes about individuality ...

making them suitable for use in modern flush toilets or for composting in latrines," says Odhiambo. Visitors from across Kenya attend Odhiambo's lectures on the uses of Plectranthus barbatus and ...

The Wilson family traded in their old life in the Alaskan city of Ketchikan to construct their own homestead in Aroostook ...

If you’re involved in an existing composting initiative or interested in supporting composting in your community – whether you are a composter, hauler, regulator, policymaker, local business, urban or ...

This off-road and off-grid-ready home on wheels is looking for its next owner. It packs all you need to hit the road in comfort and style.