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 ---------------
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!
