We left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain to live off-grid. After two years of renovating an ...

After moving to the top of a mountain in Spain, the family’s toilet experience was primitive and often difficult. The first year they used the bushes; the second year Emilia built a makeshift compost ...

Mitchell and Lynne Wise, of Wentzville, walk past solar composting toilets on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, at Quail Ridge Park in Wentzville. St. Charles County park officials want to spend $500,000 on two ...

Where could composting take place? What do zoning ordinances allow for? What state regulations (i.e., permitting requirements) apply to your situation? This often depends on the size of a composting ...

I'm equal parts car girlie and camping girlie, so I've spent plenty of nights sleeping in, on, and around vehicles. Throughout the years, I've learned the best camping gear isn't always the flashiest.

Even if you're brand new to making your own DIY compost, you've undoubtedly heard that you can compost toilet paper tubes. They're made from cardboard, biodegradable, easy to tear up, and they're an ...

There are a few reasons you might want to upgrade to a smart toilet. Their built-in bidets mean you might use less toilet paper. (And let’s be frank, a bidet can also clean you better than toilet ...

Composting is nature's way of recycling organic waste and returning nutrients to the soil. If you already make your own DIY compost, then you're helping fast-track what mother earth does, and with ...

Despite differences amongst scientific studies (e.g., locations, variability in compost treatments, magnitude of benefits observed), the overarching consensus in the scientific literature is that the ...

Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day, a global event flush with potential. Puns aside, it’s a serious awareness campaign that illustrates how access to a toilet can affect the health, safety and dignity of a ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Angie Katsanevas is going off the grid in Wife Swap: Real Housewives Edition. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City‘s center snowflake ditched her luxurious city life for ...

At the University of British Columbia, researchers are asking the tough questions. Questions like, “What if mushrooms could eat your poop to become part of a lush botanical garden?” And thus, the ...