The last time I flirted with permaculture (in late 2008), I got very excited about shit.
Having attended Milkwood’s intro to permaculture course, I raved to anyone who would listen, about the idea of recycling the energy which constitutes our own shit, to use it again and again - rather than flushing it away to a non-usable state out in the ocean somewhere.
However - besides an ongoing fascination with my compost heap (a way of recycling the energy in scrap foods and plant residues, but not shit) - my “human shit ambition” has been just sitting there, waiting for something to happen. I haven’t managed to crack how to use it within an urban context (not within the constraints of my rental tenancy situation anyway).
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