Past Golden Funnel Award Winners
The Golden Funnel Award is annually bestowed to a significant figure making waves in the Urine Diversion industry. Below is a look at our past recipients and their accomplishments.
William Tarpeh
William is a mobilizing force in the urine diversion industry who
brings passion to his research and inspiration to his mentees at Tarpeh Labs. William completed his B.S. in chemical engineering at Stanford and his M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental engineering at UC Berkeley, supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, and a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship. He conducted postdoctoral training at University of Michigan in environmental engineering. Will is a member of the Bouchet Honor Society, NBCBLK's "28 Under 28" African-American Innovators, and Forbes' "30 Under 30" 2019 Science List.
2022
Recipient
Pat Lando
Pat received this award for for his tireless efforts to forge
regulatory pathways for the beneficial use of urine. Pat is the Executive Director of ReCode, a nonprofit organization that creates sustainable and equitable building code and policy solutions for water, sanitation and nutrient recovery systems. Intentionally collaborative, his leadership finds solutions by convening regulators, technical experts, community leaders, legislators and impacted communities. Pat is the co-chair of the National Gold Ribbon Commission for Urine Reuse, and in 2021 he joined the People’s Water Project steering committee to help the coalition draft national water and sanitation related policies.
2021
Recipient
2020
Recipient
Louise Raguet
Louise is a champion of the female urinal and nutrient reclamation
with her company Marcelle. Through an inclusive design process, Louise created a popular urine diverting system which feeds her “Goldilocks Bread” project. This project, which grows the wheat to make bread found that, some 29 million baguettes of bread could be produced daily using wheat fertilized by human urine, or roughly 10 times the current daily consumption. By switching to urine-fertilized wheat, they claim farmers could save 703 tonnes of nitrogen used in artificial fertilizers on a daily basis”.
Lowell Ben Howard
Pat received this award for for his tireless efforts to forge
regulatory pathways for the beneficial use of urine. Pat is the Executive Director of ReCode, a nonprofit organization that creates sustainable and equitable building code and policy solutions for water, sanitation and nutrient recovery systems. Intentionally collaborative, his leadership finds solutions by convening regulators, technical experts, community leaders, legislators and impacted communities. Pat is the co-chair of the National Gold Ribbon Commission for Urine Reuse, and in 2021 he joined the People’s Water Project steering committee to help the coalition draft national water and sanitation related policies.