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WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

Compost toilets are beginning to make their way into regulations and standards in North America, being used in award winning commercial buildings to remote cabins.

What determines the type of toilet that is best suited for the usage?  

How does one get the approval to install one?  

What's involved in maintaining it?

The course objectives include developing a comprehensive understanding of the application of composting toilets within the multiple contexts of health and safety, regulations, appropriate toilet systems for varying applications and how to navigate the sustainability goals associated with these systems within the constraints that exist in our culture.

By the end of the course you'll have a solid foundation and great references to build your own system, work with a designer to create a system, or better understand the critical aspects from a health and safety perspective if you are a regulator. More subtly you will learn the benefits and potential pitfalls, tricks and tips in design and maintaining systems.

All students will require a copy of the book "Essential Composting Toilets: From a waste-stream to mainstream" information to purchase the textbook will be provided to those registered. 


WORKSHOP OUTLINE
Session 1 - Introduction to Composting Toilets
- Introduction
- Health and Safety and Myths
- Regulations and Standards
 
Session 2 - Maturation & Sanitization Intro
- Pathways to Maturation & Sanitization
- Safe composting
 
Session 3 - Compost System Components
- Toilet systems
 
Session 4 - Fluid Management Part 1
- Urine
- Leachate
- Greywater
- Combined waste water
 
Session 5 - Fluid Management Part 2
- Daily Design Flows
- Percolation
- Calculations

Session 6 - Sizing the System
- Discharge to the environment
- Choosing best fit technology to application
 
Session 7 - Navigating Regulations
- Best Practices
- Review and summary
 
Session 8 - Emergency Waste, Water, Everything

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WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR

-- Anyone faced with dwindling or limited water sources
-- Regulators that are seeking to learn more about alternative waste management trends
-- Professionals working remotely who've moved to their summer cottages and now need to address their lack of water,
-- Home Builders/contractors (timberframe, loghome, natural builders) working on remote islands,
-- Engineers,
-- Homeowners who are thinking about building,
-- Tiny homes on wheels seeking to ensure their systems are mobile
-- Temporary camps seeking a responsible method to deal with otherwise harmful wastes,
-- Architects - Waste Water Designers, professional associations seeking course to meet annual training needs
-- People with water issues and a lack of water and want to decrease their water usage,
-- Permaculture designers and educators,

NOTE - No previous knowledge of composting toilets is required for this workshop.  


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WORKSHOP EDUCATORS

Gord Baird
Gord Baird’s background and experiences stem from building the Eco-Sense homestead, a Living Building Challenge project that includes net zero water and waste systems, located in the District of Highlands on Vancouver Island. Addressing sustainable building, waste and water systems in the context of conventional codes and standards spawned an interest to change policy.  An unexpected career developed from the passion to stir the pot of sustainable water stewardship, compost toilets, policy and governance.  Gord’s policy work includes being a technical editor the Province of BC’s regulations on compost toilets and greywater, consulting for municipal and regional governments on rainwater harvesting for potable use and developing non-potable water reuse guidebook for commercial and multi-family residential building for a regional government. He sits as an elected municipal councillor, is the 4 year vice-chair for the CRD Regional Water Supply Commission, and is an 8 year commissioner for the Juan de Fuca Water distribution Commission.  Hands on work include co-authoring the Essential Composting Toilets  book, designing and installing over 30 residential potable rainwater systems,  strata small water systems, and is an ASSE internationally certified rainwater harvesting designer and installer.  

Eco-Sense
www.eco-sense.ca


Javan Kerby Bernakevitch
Javan Bernakevitch is a life and land designer, speaking, writing, teaching and consulting with clients, businesses and farms all over the world through All Points Design and RegenerativeLiving.online.

He believes if we don't design our lives, they'll be designed for us, and not for our benefit. In his words “If humans want to have a long life here on our planet we best act like we are part of the ecology.” He works to ensure that his client's lives and landscapes get better every year.

All Points Land Design
https://allpointsdesign.ca


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LOCATION

This LIVE series will be conducted ONLINE in the comforts of your own home via Zoom video conference software. You will receive an email link to the workshop one week before the start date.

All sessions are recorded.

You'll have lifetime access to all course content after the series completes.


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WHEN

Thursdays 7pm PT, 8pm MT, 9pm ET

1 Hour Presentation
30 Q and A

October 6th to November 24th 2022


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COST

REGULAR PRICE $349 USD
EARLY BIRD $249 USD
PRE-LAUNCH PRICE  $199 USD (This is a one time price that will be offered to anyone on this list before the public course launch for a limited time)

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THANK YOU

Thank you for taking the time to note your interest.

We'll be in touch when registration is open.

We are looking forward to having you in the course.

Gord and Javan
Regenerative Living: Composting Toilets