Humanure Handbook – Free Download
Compost, Conservation, DVDs/Books, Fungi, Potable Water, Rehabilitation, Soil Biology, Soil Conservation, Soil Erosion & Contamination, Waste Water, Water Contaminaton & Loss — by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor September 18, 2008
With chapters like ‘Crap Happens’, ‘Deep Shit’ and ‘A Day in the Life of a Turd’, this is sure to be an interesting book, albeit possibly not one to read over lunch?
With this wonderful substance piling up in all the wrong places (after all, we’re running out of clean water, and yet we’re crapping in it…), this taboo topic deserves a lot more attention than it gets. The book is now into its 3rd Edition.
- Download E-book ($10)
- Buy a hard copy ($25)
- Download Chapter by Chapter (free)
- Read Online (free)
Comments (5)Written by a humanure composting practitioner and organic gardener with over 30 years experience, this third edition provides detailed scientific information on how humanure can be hygienically recycled, without fancy technological do-dads, a large bank account, toxic chemicals, or environmental pollution.
This unique handbook provides information on composting, soil fertility and microorganisms, alternative graywater systems and much more. It also gives detailed instructions on how you can build or buy your own sawdust toilet and compost bins for only a few dollars.
Defecating in our drinking water is perhaps one of our culture’s most curious, but least talked about, habits. This book gives compelling and detailed testimony as to why humanure should be constructively recycled:
* to prevent water pollution: (almost 4 trillion gallons of sewage effluent are dumped into our coastal waterways each year);
* to fertilize the soil: (rich in soil nutrients, humanure can be safely recycled by thermophilic composting);
* to protect our dwindling drinking water supplies: (nearly 1/3 of all household drinking water is used to flush toilets); and
* to enhance our health: Fertile soil not only grows great veggies, but nourishes our health and community’s well-being. – josephjenkins.com
I have read this book few months ago and i think it’s really a “must read” book for everyone who would like to live his/hers life sustainably.
Comment by Daniel — November 14, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
My download only said it was 9.12mb – not 22mb as suggested in the text above. Perhaps it has been compressed since this was written?
Comment by Hamish — March 5, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
- View the 3rd edition free online: http://humanurehandbook.com/contents.html
The book is also available in Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Hebrew, Mongolian, Spanish, French, Slovenian, German and Cambodian: http://humanurehandbook.com/foreign.html
Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — January 3, 2011 @ 9:00 pm
- Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1945764,00.html
Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — January 3, 2011 @ 10:03 pm
- What A waste! The scoop on poop and ecological wastewater management, by Jill Cloutier: http://www.energybulletin.net/media/2011-06-22/what-waste-scoop-poop-and-ecological-wastewater-management
Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — June 23, 2011 @ 3:14 am
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