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Morning at the New Alchemy Institute

Remember the New Alchemy Institute? Perhaps you heard of it. It was a thinktank/do-tank on Cape Cod where baby boomer idealists gathered to model the green future, with experiments in…

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July 15, 2011

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Behind the glamour of the ecotoilet biz

I know many envision me answering customer questions via cell phone while lying in a hammock (produced by local women's cooperatives) hanging from palm trees (in a sustainably managed grove)…

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July 14, 2011

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Toiletology finally gets its due

Ciarrai Walsh passed on this Time Magazine article about Bill Gates seeing the light of improving sanitation as one of the most effective ways to save lives in the world:…

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July 14, 2011

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Midnight in the garden of the old New Alchemy Institute

I returned to Hilde and Earle's house around midnight. They were still up. Hilde noted the peeping coming from the vast greenhouse attached to their house, the last remnant of…

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July 14, 2011