Fun with poop

Time for some do it yourself, ever wondered about a better way to dispose of your own excretions without wasting all that water and scrubbing that toilet every week? Well, here is humanure to the rescue! That's right, all you need is yourself, a five gallon bucket and some shredded junkmail. One crap + one scoop shreddings/sawdust = fertilizer! I've been crapping in a bucket since I got here and I've got to say it's actually better than using a normal western toilet. There's amazingly no smell or flies and when it's full it goes right onto the compost heap, ready to fuel that next round of tasty garden vegetables. Interested yet? This man wrote a whole book about it and it's available free online:

http://www.weblife.org/humanure

I'm beginning to realize just how far removed society is from the natural cycle of things. For a little bit of planting and weeding the garden supplies most of our food out here, a bit of feed and some attention gets you fresh milk and cheese without chemicals and the chickens cover eggs for very little work. I'll never look at lawns the same way again, all that wasted time and effort for a useless patch of green when the average backyard could supply a family of four with food for the entire year. Instead of those rebate checks ol' George should have sent everyone a gardening book and a bag of seeds, hand to mouth! If anyone in this country ever goes hungry it's out of laziness and stupidity, not for a lack of potential food.

A thought on housing, ever heard of cob? Basically just sod, gravel and hay. All you have to do is mix, mold into place, put a decent roof over it (choose a living roof and there's more garden space!) and it lasts for generations. Absolutely amazing stuff, you can have curved walls, build benches, bookshelves and even a stove right into it. Completely negates the need for a wasteful and expensive construction industry as you can build even a small cottage out of it for less than 500 bucks. If you don't like the shape of it you can just re-wet, re-work and voila, a new nitche or add on.

Civilization is just seeming more and more like a big pile of retarded glued together with a lack of foresight and a love for wage slavery. Just gaze beyond that iPod and a whole world opens up.