Rich Earth Institute

At A Glance

Location: 

Brattleboro and Putney, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Environmental Health

Active since:

2011

Core volunteers:

4

Community Size:

9,000

Our Purpose

to change the way our society understands human manure: to stop seeing it as a waste to be disposed of, and to start recognizing it as a resource to be reclaimed. Our aim is to lead by example, creating working systems that recycle human manure (which includes both urine and feces) into sanitized fertilizer that is then reused on farms.