An off-grid British-Australian couple whose children were removed from their custody by Italian authorities won't be spending the holidays together following an appellate court ruling.

We turned a 60-square-foot van into a home for three grown adults while traveling through Morocco. That meant shared meals, ...

This holiday season, don't be surprised when tinned fish, compost bins and toilet paper top the wishlist. Thanks to some ...

The rest of the residents are at home, relaxing, trying to clean their houses, and throwing all the resulting trash into the ...

In an effort to raise public awareness on this, the World Toilet Organisation introduced World Toilet Day in 2001, observed ...

We've heard of off-grid toilets that macerate, compost, incinerate and electro-wrap. We even stumbled on one that "super-composts" just a few weeks ago. We guess we should have expected one that ...

The compost is dark—brown at the edges, black in the centre, still damp from the monsoon night. When I dig my fingers in, it breaks and catches the first light like new topsoil. As I lift out a tray ...

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VANCOUVER - A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered ...

UBC researchers are launching the world’s first mushroom-powered waterless toilet, the MycoToilet, at the UBC Botanical Garden on Sept. 26. The prototype turns human waste into nutrient-rich compost ...

There’s a new organic compost on the market in New Jersey — human. No, this is not a scene from “The Sopranos.” Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...