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Summary: This Book Improved Our Lives!
Review: This book improved our lives as soon as I finished it! Thank you Joe Jenkins! After living for four years with a well known brand of composting toilet, the sawdust toilet in this book has finally given us simple living. I read this book cover to cover the day I got it. My husband built it in one hour and we started using it. Simplicity at it's best! Everything in this book makes total sense. I only wish I'd bought this book four years ago when we first moved to our homestead. I highly recommend it-it should be required reading to live in this country!
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Summary: The Humanure Handbook
Review: This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in simplifying their lives, living lightly on the land, and growing quality food. The pictures are of real people, obviously not kooks, and the information is helpful, well-researched and written, practical, tactful, and humourous. I'm part of a quite individualistic alternative community a couple of hours away from a major Canadian city and there are people here who are really doing it! As an organic grower, I certainly intend to put it into practice and hope to benefit from the experience of my neighbours who are getting to it a little quicker.
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Summary: Here's a quick way to start your own sawdust toilet.
Review: This book is brilliant. In the sporting goods department at... I purchased something called a hassock, which is a portable toilet that is nothing more than a bucket in a plastic shell. It is perfect for use as a sawdust toilet. It only cost me $$ bucks. Just add sawdust and "get after it"!
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Summary: Here's a quick way to start your own sawdust toilet.
Review: This book is brilliant. In the sporting goods department at... I purchased something called a hassock, which is a portable toilet that is nothing more than a bucket in a plastic shell. It is perfect for use as a sawdust toilet. It only cost me $$ bucks. Just add sawdust and "get after it"!
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Summary: Brilliant Man, Brilliant Book, Only one and a half problems
Review: This book is informative, well researched and solicits a needed paradigm shift for our culture. I recomend this book highly to anyone who eats. However I found the author's dealing with Christianity to be incomplete. He confuses some (okay most) "Christains" with the precepts of Biblical teaching. As a Christain I find his recomendations to be in line the biblical teachings of stewardship and considering others more important than oneself. The author comes just short of blaming Christianity for the worlds sewage. Even with this said I beleive this book should be read and acted upon by every Christain. Not because we should worship the earth but because it is a gift of God and is therefore precious. I also found the book to be somewhat repetative. I found this to help with the teaching value of the book but it adversely effected the enjoyment of the read. The author should be highly praised for the thoroughness of his research and for his courage to say what needs to be said. Do not let my criticisms disuade you. EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!!! With the exception of his treatment of Christianity, I say well done Mr. Jenkins.
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Summary: Always wanted to write this one, but he did it first!!!!
Review: This book tells all you'll ever need to know about how you can save the precious by-products of the food you eat. Joe tells us organic gardeners how (our shhhh)it can be completely recycled - safely and simply while saving lots of: 1. water, 2. time, 3. money spent on commercial fertilizer and/or 4. sweat lugging so much animal manure from far away places to our gardens.
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Summary: Village of 50 having success
Review: This is a great book. Our ecovillage of 50-80 members (see eastwind.org) has been using this system for a few years with total success. Our organic gardens thrive.
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Summary: Letter to the friend who told me about the Humanure Handbook
Review: This sawdust toilet solution has given me great peace of mind. Since we moved 9 years ago to the place we are at now I have been unhappy with the way the septic system is. We have a problem with back up at the corner drain and it is worse when it rains.So for nine years I have tried to conserve flushing the toilet because I was so aware that I was part of the problem. Don't laugh, but I would "hold it" rather than relieve myself just avoid flushing that toilet so much. For nine years. Now I just go. (I drink a lot of water and have to go a lot!) Today I already saved 35 gallons of water. When I told my husband how much water I saved he mentioned that our electric bill will probably go down because it takes electricity to run the pump. I ordered a couple Humanure Handbooks from Amazon. I have to gingerly offer one to my neighbor across the pond. Because their septic backs up, it floods our property and has killed several of our trees. This plan would solve further problems. I don't know if she will go for it. Time will tell. But she does have a nice garden and compost pile already. Might be right up her alley just as it is mine.
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Summary: I didn't know that
Review: We are building a house in the woods and were looking for an inexpensive (cheap) way to install a toilet. Composting toilets looked like a good idea relative to septic tanks. Then I found Jenkins' book. Not only does he have the cheapest system, it turns out it is undoubtedly the best system for everybody. Neither my wife nor I liked the idea at first, but Jenkins will lead you by the hand to arrive at the only tenable position for you, your family, and the world. And all I wanted was a good toilet. He is a little redundant and some of the later sections can be skipped as a repeat of former stuff. None-the-less, no matter why you need to compost, read Jenkins, an intelligent, honest, and highly persuasive author.
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Summary: Composting Toilet manufacture gives thumbs up!
Review: We have been manufacturing composting toilet systems since 1974 and each year we receive thousands of requests for information on our Rota-Loo system. Many people investigating composting toilets really aren't sure about how they work or what they will need to do make ensure that their system work properly all the time. We also get requests for explanation on why our system is better than everyone elses and its impossible to be objective when confronted with requests like this. We are extremely thankfull to Joe Jenkins for writing such a superb and definative book on the composting of human manure. We recommend this book to everyone and anyone who needs the best information available in order to make their decisions.
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