The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure, Third Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph C. Jenkins
Publisher: Jenkins Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  64 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964425831
Dewey Decimal Number: 631.869
EAN: 9780964425835
ASIN: 0964425831
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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The 10th Anniversary Edition of the most comprehensive, up-to-date and thoroughly researched book on the topic of composting human manure available anywhere. It includes a review of the historical, cultural and environmental issues pertaining to "human waste," as well as an in depth look at the potential health risks related to humanure recycling, with clear instructions on how to eliminate those dangers in order to safely convert humanure into garden soil. Written by a humanure composter with over twenty-five years experience, this classic work now includes illustrated, step-by-step instructions on how to build a "$25 sawdust toilet," a chapter on alternative graywater systems, photos of owner-built sawdust toilets from around the world, and an overview of commercial composting toilets and systems.
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Humanure Handbook: Required Reading July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish my parents had known about this so they could have taught me instead of me having to teach them. Shame on anyone that has discouraged this sort of creative thinking. Let the rigor with which Joseph Jenkins has researched this topic be a lesson to anyone who wants to make a claim about the validity of any of our social norms.
poopalicious! June 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the true revolution is in our poop! its a great read and is a vital piece to the new sustainable culture we are growing. thanks joe!
A true page turner! June 2, 2008
Fascinating and intelligent book that holds the key to sustainable practices that will help protect our drinking water supply. Why use 1.5 -5 gallons of precious drinking water to wash our poop away? It's a shameful and wasteful practice and this book provides the best solution to managing our excrement in a way that is healthy for us and for the planet.
Wish I could give it more than five stars! November 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Everyone should read this book, even if they have no intention or ability to use a humanure composting system. It provides a wealth of information on a subject that has been ignored for too long...human waste - how to dispose of it in a sensible, sustainable, practical, useful manner. We haven't flushed a toilet in this house in eight months, since we got this book and built our own sawdust toilet and composting box out back. We had a serious drought here this summer and our well was REAL low, but we had no problems because we weren't FLUSHING FOUR GALLONS OF CLEAN DRINKING WATER UNDERGROUND each time we went in the bathroom. I always wondered why we eliminate in water, anyway. And it doesn't stink, the compost box doesn't stink, it's simple and straightforward and clean and the humanure toilet's time has come! Everybody who comes in our house gets dragged into the bathroom by my husband to meet our new humanure toilet! Then I drag them outside to meet my wonderful compost box! So far we've had one convert, a couple with a camp who were using a stinking old outhouse, and they are just thrilled with the idea of using a humanure toilet next summer when they move back to camp. As a bonus, our electric bill dropped substantially, just because the water pump doesn't have to kick on every time a toilet is flushed. Buy this book, read it, start using a humanure toilet, tell all your friends, lend the book to your friends, do it now! Then read Joe Jenkins' other book, "Balance Point."
Great for the environment July 25, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Due to a plumbing fault in the house, my family have been composting in the back garden on a daily basis for over a year. What a bonus to stumble upon this book and find out that our actions have been helping to preserve the future of our planet! A number of residents in our street have complainined that the local environment has been suffering from some kind of unpleasant air pollution of late, so we feel proud to be putting something back.
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