According to a new report, 200 million farmers use human shit as fertilizer for 49 million acres of land. The study, published by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), details how ten percent of the population, mostly in developing nations, eat grains and vegetables harvested from fields irrigated and fertilized with raw sewage. Traditional fertilizer and clean water is too expensive or simply unavailable in many places. From National Geographic:
to the press release, "“The box pops up from its convenient 14” flat pack to a rigid reusable box, you pop in a degradable poo bag, do your business, seal and then dispose." Creative Review has more details.
Shit box (Creative Review)
Mostly, though, what I love about standing in front of TV cameras.
At the same time they heard a series of interesting articles about the global food crisis . Basically, the high cost of food is changing behaviors around the world, from Japanese bars to the slums of Nairobi. According to the Silk Museum, keeping the tiny, delicate eggs (about the size of a human cell. Paula Hammond, Angela Belcher, and Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues reported in Science how to do this. Specifically, they altered the virus's genes so it makes protein coats that collect molecules of cobalt oxide to form ultrathin wires -- together, the anode.
The man, whose name was not immediately released, was put into flexible handcuffs by flight attendants and held until the plane landed. Nude man disrupts flight (BostonChannel.com)
