Category: Falmouth

• Rich Earth Summit 2025: Explore Sustainable Urine Diversion

  

  Join the Rich Earth Institute, Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (MASSTC) and The Green Center on October 15 & 16, 2025 for the 11th annual Rich Earth Summit, held for the first time this year on Cape Cod! Immerse yourself in two days of learning, discovery, and collaboration, exploring urine diversion as a cost-effective…

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  September 20, 2025

  Eco-Toilets, Falmouth, Featured

  eco-toilet, education, environment, Event, Rich Earth, sustainability, urine diversion

• All we are saying: Give oysters a chance

  

  The following was written by Ron Smolowitz, a Falmouth farmer and member of the Citizens for Ecological and Economic Sustainability addressing Question 1 on Falmouth’s May 20, 2014 ballot. There are many reasons one can be “against” sewers: they are expensive to construct and maintain and they use a lot of drinking water and energy…

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  May 7, 2014

  Falmouth, Public comment

  aquaculture, betterments, comprehensive wastewater management plan, cwmp, eco-toilet, Falmouth, Falmouth Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan, Little Pond, Ron Smolowitz, sustainable solutions, town of falmouth, wastewater problems

• “Proven” doesn’t equal “good”

  

  The following was written by Hilde Maingay and published as a letter to the editor in the Falmouth Enterprise, May 2, 2014. Have you heard it over and over? “We have to sewer the densely populated areas. We can only rely on “proven” sewer technology to clean Little Pond.” But just because sewers are a…

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  May 6, 2014

  Environmental Concerns, Falmouth, Public comment

  Falmouth, Hilde Maingay, sewers, town of falmouth