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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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Green Homes
The Cape Cod Ark promotes sustainable living in response to climate change. Americans are urged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90% urgently. Practical steps include energy-efficient upgrades, heat pump technologies, water conservation, recycling kitchen scraps, and embracing waterless eco-toilets. Additionally, lifestyle changes such as promoting plant-based diets and reducing travel are essential to combat…
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Green New Deal Superstudio Submission
July 16, 2021 We have submitted the Greenway idea and illustrations of it to the Green New Deal Superstudio, a national initiative by the Landscape Architecture Foundation to encourage designs to implement the goals of the Green New Deal. Our submission is in visual form above, or you can download a higher-res PDF here. Over…
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Greenway
Greenway (Animated by Lily Ericsson) There is a world in which humans integrate into the water-nutrient cycle. Welcome to Greenway, an achievable, sustainable vision from Earle Barnhart and Hilde Maingay. Greenway is a vision of an ecological neighborhood, where basic needs – food, water, shelter, transport, communications – are provided in ecologically sustainable ways with…
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The First EcoDrum on Cape Cod!
The Green Center endorses the EcoDrum as an ideal method of recovering and recycling waste nutrients on Cape Cod.
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Green Classroom Curriculum
Green Classroom Curriculum January 8, 2019 Due to renewed interest in science-based learning for children, we’re making available a gardening curriculum published by the New Alchemy Institute in 1988. The Green Classroom is a tested, convenient way for teachers to provide garden-focused knowledge to today’s students, with practical benefits in a climate-challenged world. Developed by…
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Green Center
The Falmouth Wind Project Appeal November 20, 2018 In June 2017, Judge Cornelius Moriary of the Barnstable Superior Court shut down Falmouth’s two 1.65 MW wind turbines. Since then, The Green Center —working with a small group of Falmouth residents— attempted to restore the turbines to operation by appealing the decision. The Town of Falmouth would…
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Advice to the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition
Below are our recommendations for using advanced ecological water and nutrient strategies in the watershed planning and modeling for Three Bays watershed in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The situation The average adult resident of Three Bays watershed eats about a ton of food per year. Almost all of that food is imported onto the Cape in trucks.…
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We made it to Separett’s newsletter!
In our never-ending search for the best eco-toilets, we studied the Separett eco-toilets developed in Sweden. Separett specializes in urine-diverting toilets, and modular compost bins instead of a single large container. We discovered that one new model, a urine-diverting composting toilet, had not been brought to the US yet. So, we imported two of them…
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Pick your “ick”
The following letter to the editor by Hilde Maingay was written in response to an editorial in The Falmouth Enterprise criticizing the “ick” factor of eco-toilets. The same paper published the letter on March 13, 2015. The alarm bells of the climate (and environmental) crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and…
Restore the lands, protect the seas, and inform the Earth’s stewards.
The Green Center 