Name: It's World Toilet Day!
Start: 2024-11-19T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Whirled Pies

Join us for a free, fun and educational event about toilets:
Toilet history
Composting toilets
Toilet without sewers (container-based sanitation)
Fertilizers made from urine
Plus Toilet Trivia, with prizes!
Held at Whirled Pies- pizza, salads, beer, and more! Family-friendly!
Speakers:
Laura Allen
Laura Allen is a founding member of Greywater Action and has spent the past 20 years exploring simple and ecological water solutions. She is the lead author of the San Francisco Graywater Design Guidelines for Outdoor Irrigation, and authored The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape (Storey Press, 2015) and Greywater, Green Landscape (2017). She’s participated in state greywater code developments in California and Washington State and is on the technical advisory committee for IAPMO’s Water Efficiency Standard (We-Stand).
Kory Russel
Dr. Kory Russel’s (www.koryrussel.com) work focuses on the design, implementation, and experience of non-networked water and sanitation services specifically in resource constrained locations around the world. He did foundational research and design on Container-Based Sanitation in collaboration with SOIL in Haiti. He also helped found the Container-Based Sanitation Alliance (cbs.global) in 2016, the Landscape for Humanity initiative (www.landscape4humanity.org) in 2019, and is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Science at the University of Oregon. He is also currently the Chair of the CBSA. He holds a BS in Environmental Biology and MS in Environmental Science from Taylor University as well as an MS and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University.
Pat Lando
Pat Lando is the executive director of Recode and a practicing landscape architect and green infrastructure consultant. He has been part of finding permit pathways for a wide range of projects from rainwater to blackwater; from residential to campus scale. Pat works to eliminate hurdles that allow for ‘next generation’ water reuse in California, Oregon and Washington. His long-term vision is to optimize our water resources within a dynamically stable nutrient cycle.