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Schedule

TUES
Nov 1

In-Person Open House

&
Virtual Keynote

8:00 AM -

11:00 AM ET

Research Center Tours

Rich Earth Institute

355 Old Ferry Road

Brattleboro, VT 05301

 --------- 11:30 - 12:00 PM ET  🍎 Mingling & Snacks   --------- 

12:00 PM -

1:15 PM

ET

KEYNOTE - Virtual

Pipe Dream to Mainstream: Reporting on the Urine Revolution

Chelsea Wald, author of Pipe Dreams

Discussion moderated by Shawn Shafner, the People's Own Organic Power Project 

WEDS

Nov 2

Virtual Summit

9:00 AM - 

9:10 AM

ET

Welcome & Introduction

9:10 AM - 

10:20 AM

ET

Community Knowledge & Social Change

 ---------------  10:20 - 10:30 AM ET   💧   Break   ---------------

10:30 AM - 

11:10 AM

ET

Research Facility Tour Videos

11:10 AM - 

1:50 PM

ET

Progress in Tech Research

Part 1: Contamination Removal 

 

Part 2: Processing Technology

 ---------------  12:10 - 12:20 PM ET   💧   Break   ---------------

 ---------------  1:50 - 2:00 PM ET   💧   Break   ---------------

2:00 PM - 

2:30 PM

ET

BREAKOUT DISCUSSIONS

A: Home Gardening with Urine Fertilizer

B: Contaminants & Urine Fertilizer

THURS
Nov 3

Virtual Summit

Welcome & Introduction

9:00 AM - 

9:10 AM

ET

9:10 AM - 

10:30 AM

ET

Implementation Projects

 ---------------  10:30 - 10:40 AM ET   💧   Break   ---------------

10:40 AM - 

11:30 AM

ET

Urine Diversion Tools

 ---------------  11:30 - 11:40 AM ET   💧   Break   ---------------

11:40 AM - 

1:10 PM

ET

Impacts & Decision-Making Tools

 ---------------  1:10 - 1:20 PM ET     ---------------

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Gold Funnel Award

1:20 PM - 

1:50 PM

ET

BREAKOUT DISCUSSIONS

A: Home Gardening with Urine Fertilizer

B: Gold Ribbon Commission Update & US Regulation

DETAILED

All times listed in Eastern Standard Time

8:00 - 11:00 

11:30 - 12:00 

Rich Earth Institute

Research Center Tours

Rich Earth Institute

355 Old Ferry Road

Brattleboro, VT 05301

 🍎 Mingling & Snacks 

12:00 - 12:45

12:45 - 1:15 

KEYNOTE - Virtual

Pipe Dream to Mainstream: Reporting on the Urine Revolution

Speaker: Chelsea Wald

Discussion

Moderated by Shawn Shafner, The People's Own Organic Power Project 

TUESDAY, Nov 1

In-Person Open House & Virtual Keynote

9:00 - 9:10 

9:10 - 10:20

Welcome & Introduction

Community Knowledge & Social Change

"Urine My Data" - Initial Findings from Rich Earth’s Community Science Survey

Julia Cavicchi, Rich Earth Institute, US

Tatiana Schreiber, Rich Earth Institute, US

 

Urban Cycles - A Citizen Science Project for sustainable fertilization with urine-based recycling fertilizers in urban gardens in Berlin

Corinna Schröder, Leibniz Institute for Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Cultivation, Germany

A glimpse into global sanitation justice initiatives

Sarah Nahar, Syracuse University, US

Urban uses of urine as a fertilizer: an field study in France

Marine Legrand, LEESU, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Research and animation Fellow (OCAPI Program), France

Undergraduates Value Learning about Regenerative Sanitation Systems: Insights for Teaching about Urine-derived Fertilizers

Hayley Joyell Smith, University of Georgia & PHLUSH, US & Jamina Shupack, US

Discussion

10:20 - 10:30

💧Break

10:30 - 11:10

11:10 - 12:10

Virtual Research Facility Tours

University of Michigan - Lucinda Li 

Stanford University - Kindle Williams 

Cornell University - Rebecca Nelson & Ace Repka

Discussion

Progress in Tech Research 

Part 1: Contamination Removal

Influence of organics removal on pharmaceutical adsorption

Aurea Heusser, Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland

 

Feasibility study of powdered activated carbon membrane bioreactor (PAC-MBR) for source-separated urine treatment: a comparison with MBR

Jiaxi Jiang, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia

Fate of organic contaminants in electrochemical nitrogen recovery processes treating urine

Anna Kogler, Stanford University, US

Removal of antibiotics from nitrified real human urine by GAC

Abdulaziz Almuntashiri, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
 

Discussion

12:10 - 12:20

💧 Break

12:20 - 1:50

Progress in Tech Research 

Part 2: Resource Recovery 

Compact and high-performance activated carbon incorporated membrane bioreactor with the addition of biofilm carriers

Weonjung Sohn, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Electrochemical urine stabilization with concomitant phosphorus recovery using magnesium anodes and peroxide-producing cathodes

Sudeep Popat, Clemson University, US

Scaling up an electrochemical nitrogen recovery process from lab benchtop to pilot wastewater plant

Kindle Williams, Stanford University, US

A hybrid nanofiltration and reverse osmosis process for urine
treatment: Effect on urea recovery and purity

Caitlin Courtney, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Bacterial succession in human fecal waste composting

Greg Caporaso & Jeff Meilander, Northern Arizona University, US

Urine storage conditions influence nitrogen adsorption and plant uptake in urine-enriched biochars

Elena Bischak, University of California, Merced, US

Discussion

1:50 - 2:00

💧 Break

2:00 - 2:30

Breakout Discussions

Contaminants & Urine Fertilizer

 

Home Gardening with Urine Fertilizer

WEDNESDAY, Nov 2

Virtual Summit

9:00 - 9:10 

9:10 - 10:30

Welcome & Introduction

Implementation Projects

ARC Research Hub for Nutrients in a Circular Economy (ARC NiCE Hub): project progress and perspectives

Hokyong Shon, Australian Research Council, Australia

VunaNexus: examples of large scale applications of urine nitrification

Nadège de Chambrier, VunaNexus AG, Switzerland

Urocyclus, Overview of an Ongoing Urine Recycling Project

Valentin Aubois-Liogier, University of Tours, France

Nitrification of urine and co-composting of nitrified urine in the zirkulierBAR project

Carsten Beneker, Kreiswerke Barnim GmbH, Germany

Lactopi Start: the first European-wide registered microbial biostimulant using urine as growth medium

Julien Saludas, Toopi Organics, France

“Pee for the Peonies”: Demonstration of urine-derived fertilizer on peony plants

Juliana Marks, University of Michigan, US

Brightwater Tools Urine Pasteurizer

Abe Noe-Hays, Brightwater Tools, US

10:30 - 10:40

💧 Break

10:40 - 11:30

Urine Diversion Tools

LAUFEN Urine-Diverting Toilets

Cristiane Kopp & Marc Richterich, LAUFEN AG, Switzerland

 

P-POD waterless in-wall urinal and other UD systems to reduce pollution on Cape Cod, MA

Earle Barnhart & Hilda Maingay, Green Center, US

Urine-Diverting Toilet Design

Jason Kass, Toilets For People, US

Enter the Nytrogen cycle with the ORIAZ Solar-Dripper

Robert Cossette, ORIAZ Solar-Dripper, France

ODM - Open Design Toilet Mold - The toilet revolution for the bottom of the pyramid

Lotte Kristoferitsch, EOOS NEXT, Austria

Discussion

11:30 - 11:40

💧 Break

11:40 - 1:10

Impacts & Decision Making Tools

Ocean Sewage Alliance Knowledge Hub

Kassie Morton, The Nature Conservancy, US

Impact of urine diversion and conversion to fertiliser products in Sydney Central Park

Umakanth Badeti, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

The potential role of urine separation in improving nutrient circularity in New York City

Lucinda Li, University of Michigan, US

Nutrient stocks, flows and balances for the Bolivian agri-food system: Can recycling human urine close the nutrient circularity gap?

Luis Perez-Mercado; Prithvi Simha, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Universidad Mayor de San Simon, Sweden/Bolivia

Benefits of urine diversion for rural housing on septic systems

Merilee D. Karr, PHLUSH (Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human), US

Egestabase – Navigating technologies for recovery and reuse of plant nutrients from human excreta and wastewater

Jennifer McConville, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Discussion

1:10 - 1:20

💧 Break

1:20 - 1:50

Breakout Discussions

Gold Ribbon Commission Update & US Regulation  

Pat Lando, Recode, US

Home Gardening with Urine Fertilizer

THURSDAY, Nov 3

Virtual Summit

AFFILIATE EVENTS

Nov
16 & 17

7th Annual Urban Soils Symposium

In-Person (NYC)
LMCC Arts Center at Governors Island, NYC

This annual symposium is an international platform for diverse and interdisciplinary collaborative opportunities built on the discovery and mutual explorations of soils and their force in nature and in sustaining life both in the natural and human-built systems.

 

Built systems within urban areas are linear structures. Raw material is imported to create products, and wastes are exported for disposal elsewhere.


This linear system has replaced the circular metabolism of nature. 

 

Join the Urban Soils Institute & partners as we explore solutions & strategies for transforming urban supply chains into entire urban metabolisms, where natural and anthropogenic processes exist in a mutualistic relationship.

Nov
18 & 19

Sanitation Innovations for Economic Development

The summit is targeted at high level decision makers in view of creating a conversation around sanitation. Join us at the 2022 World Toilet Summit to learn more about the policies our leaders have put in place to tackle the issue of sanitation.

Find out more about the sanitation value chain and the economic opportunities availed by high-tech sanitation.

Dec
1

LOO BOOK CLUB

Join Flush, Poop Project, and the Rich Earth Institute for their 7th book club gathering on Dec 1 @ 7pm ET to talk about the new book "Flush" by 
Bryn Nelson! 

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