Main entry:

Jenkins, Joseph C.

Title & Author:

The humanure handbook : a guide to composting human manure / by Joseph C. Jenkins.

Edition:

2nd ed., completely rev., expanded and updated.

Publication:

Grove City, PA : Jenkins Pub., ©1999.

Description:

302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index.
0. The Beginning -- 1. Crap Happens -- 2. Waste Not Want Not -- 3. Microhusbandry -- 4. Deep SH*T -- 5. A Day in the Life of a Turd -- 6. Composting Toilets and Systems. Worldwide Sources of Composting Toilets -- 7. Worms and Disease -- 8. The Tao of Compost -- 9. Alternative Graywater Systems -- 10. The End is Near -- App. 1. Temperature Conversions -- App. 2. Sources of Wetland Plants -- App. 3. US State Regulations.
Library copy: former shelfmark: EL0-0063.

Summary:

"Humanure; waste or resource? Joseph Jenkins boldly steps where no author has gone before. Considered by many a "moving" book, The Humanure Handbook will surprise you with its timely relevance, delight you with its humor, and impress you with its thorough research. Full of "eye-candy" illustrations, practical information, history, philosophy, and science, it addresses an issue relevant to each and every human being on Planet Earth."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0964425890 (pbk.)
9780964425897 (pbk.)

Subject:

Night soil.
Sewage as fertilizer.
Compost.
Vidanges.
Eaux usées (Engrais)

Form/genre:

Handbook
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.

Added entries:

Minimum Cost Housing Group fonds

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301349
Call No.: BIB 247518
Status: Available