Irus Braverman (Buffalo): Governing with Clean Hands: Automated Public Toilets and Sanitary Surveillance. Urinary segregation: Public toilets are an important civil-rights domain, writes Laurie Essig, and a semiotic mess, too. “Peeing is political:” An interview with Harvey Molotch, co-editor of Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (and a sample chapter, "The Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets and Campus Politics" by Olga Gershenson; and here's the tumblr The Toilet Book). Here is the website of Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. The World Toilet Organization celebrates World Toilet Day on November 19 of every year. From TED, Melinda Gates on how women are refusing to marry men without toilets: "No loo, no 'I do.'" Mozambique's music icon Feliciano dos Santos uses his songs to educate people about the importance of sanitation and hygiene. In India, cellphones abound, toilets don't. Stopping peeing in public: In New Delhi, the humble public toilet goes by any number of names: wall, footpath, tree, abandoned car, occupied car. Too drunk to care: Staggering students urinate on war memorial and vomit in gutters as Carnage revellers shame our streets again. In praise of outdoor peeing: When nature calls, you should go in nature. A review of Poop Happened! A History of the World From the Bottom Up by Sarah Albee. Mike the Mad Biologist on how to take a government-approved poop. Don’t call it bullshit: Manure can power farms, heat homes and run engines — presenting the twenty-first century’s most undervalued hope for renewable energy. Pee is for power: Why let your waste go to waste when it could be powering your mobile phone — or even your car? A movement is taking the "waste" out of human waste — transforming sewage sludge into fuel, heating buildings with it, using composting toilets to produce fertilizer.
