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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cleaning our Rivers and Oceans Kickstarter

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Kickstarter is live!











There is a lot of garbage that goes down the drain:  

"Flushable” wipes, feminine hygiene products, dental floss, condoms, cotton balls, face cleaning pads, Q-tips, medication and supplement packaging, cigarette butts, kitty litter, gum, unwanted "legal evidence", disposable razors, rubber gloves,  children’s toys going on a magical adventure, syringes, contact lenses, bits of clothing or fabric, coins and jewelry, food scraps, broken glass, receipts, bottle caps, nails and screws, hair ties, stickers, vape pens, glitter, and heaps more brikabrak that somehow made it to the drain.

Once it gets to the sewage treatment plant, it is fished out out of the sewage, loaded onto trucks and hauled to the dump. If it simply went into the garbage can at home, it would be a lot less gross - and it would be less likely to accidentally get into the river.

Water and pee can go onto gardens.  

If we can replace harsh cleaners and body products with greywater safe versions, then all that is left to deal with is poop.

And this is where the invention comes in.  Making something far better than sewage treatment plants.  Something so good that law makers and regulators will not only embrace it, but, I hope, reward it.

Poop is the favorite fertilizer of plants.  And poop from a sick person can make other people sick (pathogens).  But if we age it for two years, the pathogens are gone.  Willow trees like big gobs of fertilizer more than other tree species - especially in the spring.  Our general strategy is to collect poop (without urine, water, cleaners, etc.), age it two years and then feed it to willow trees in the spring.  It turns out that the amount of material you feed to a willow tree each year, with this technique, isn't all that much.

Bonus benefits:

    ● Less than 10% of the cost of conventional systems
    ● Helps solve “peak phosphorus”
    ● Less odor than a flush toilet
    ● Manages pathogens better than sewage treatment plants
    ● Works better than porta-potties and RV toilets

There is still room for improvement, but what we have now is so much better than any other systems, we feel it is time to share!

We have raw video of our progress - enough to make a full movie! And we are trying to write a draft book - maybe a hundred pages?

We think that this is some deeply profound stuff.  Do you?

We offer the draft book at the $1 level.  And for the $10 reward, you get the movie and the book!




Kickstarter kickback program!

You can get paid to share this project!

https://permies.com/w/kickback
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starting in a couple of minutes ...
 
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Kickstarter is now live!
 
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Backer number . . . 10 . . . .   I think
 
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That was weird. When I tried to back it, it got hung up logging me in and lost stuff like the level at which I wanted to back. So then I had to figure out whether I actually had backed successfully or not. I don't think I've ever had that kind of issue before and I'm a "superbacker". Anyway, I still got number 8. :)
 
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Backer #2 :) one day ill be number #1!
 
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Over $1000 already!   I am so glad to see this project taking off!
 
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Backer number 38, FTW!
 
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Over
$2000 !

Thank you everyone!
 
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I am #53.

Can't wait to see the finished product, thank you for having the vision and follow through on this Paul!
 
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55 backers!
 
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Backer #30 - I shared it on Twitter to my 10.9K followers (but they don't follow me for permaculture).
 
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Julia Winter wrote:Backer #30 - I shared it on Twitter to my 10.9K followers (but they don't follow me for permaculture).



I can think of a number of ways your people might find this relevant . . .
 
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Ahhh NOOOOOOO!!! I got to miss out on early bird rewards.  I got about 10 more days until crazylifeshit is sorted out.  Then I can do my pledge.

Cheering you on.  This is a great project.

Everyone else, get in the early bird while you still can.  They are worth it!
 
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Over $3k!
 
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I just have a question, why is the poop green in this picture?



Maybe a non-descript brown would be better? I'm not sure I'd want to poop on something that was full of green liquid....
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Maybe a nondescript brown is better?
Maybe a nondescript brown is better?
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Or maybe just a dark hole is better? The green really drew my eye, and this hopefully sends the focus elsewhere...
Or maybe just a dark hole is better? The green really drew my eye, and this hopefully sends the focus elsewhere...
 
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r ranson wrote:Ahhh NOOOOOOO!!! I got to miss out on early bird rewards.  I got about 10 more days until crazylifeshit is sorted out.  Then I can do my pledge.

Cheering you on.  This is a great project.

Everyone else, get in the early bird while you still can.  They are worth it!



I wonder, can you pledge a dollar now to get the early bird rewards, and then raise your level later?
 
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Nicole Alderman wrote:I just have a question, why is the poop green in this picture?



Maybe a non-descript brown would be better? I'm not sure I'd want to poop on something that was full of green liquid....



I figured it was the green plastic of the bin inside the box.
 
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Julia Winter wrote:

Nicole Alderman wrote:I just have a question, why is the poop green in this picture?



Maybe a non-descript brown would be better? I'm not sure I'd want to poop on something that was full of green liquid....



I figured it was the green plastic of the bin inside the box.



I mean, that makes sense....but it's so bright for being deep in a toilet. My brain just thinks it's full of liquid green acid. Since it's one of the brightest things on the image, it draws my eyes right there. It's a bit distracting, and I'm thinking maybe the visual emphasis could be better used elsewhere.

I also noticed that all the greens in the image are different. I wonder how it would look with all the greens being the same hue?
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All the willow-green hue of green
All the willow-green hue of green
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All the kickstarter-green of green
All the kickstarter-green of green
 
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Nicole Alderman wrote:

r ranson wrote:Ahhh NOOOOOOO!!! I got to miss out on early bird rewards.  I got about 10 more days until crazylifeshit is sorted out.  Then I can do my pledge.

Cheering you on.  This is a great project.

Everyone else, get in the early bird while you still can.  They are worth it!



I wonder, can you pledge a dollar now to get the early bird rewards, and then raise your level later?



Alas crazylifeshit..

But everyone else, don't delay.   Those are some snazzy early bird goodies.
 
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Wait, Nicole - your poops's not green? Uh oh.
 
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I must be doing something wrong.
 
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It is the bucket! Here is another angle of the 3D render :)

 
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I'm in in at #27 Looking forward to some great stuff
 
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I dont see a mention that we are over $5,600
 
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I just checked and the project is at 95 backers.

What incredible support.
 
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Paul Fookes wrote:I dont see a mention that we are over $5,600



You must be in Australia.

Over here we just passed $4k!!
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Backer #108.

I'm very pleased that the tiny download is so affordable.

I shared my special link with the backers of my most recent Kickstarter. Will share again in a few days time to off-grid cookbook backers.

If anyone else wants a special link to share, here's the thread: https://permies.com/w/kickback
 
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Given LinkedIn a poke to get this great news out there: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wheaton-labs_cleaning-our-rivers-and-oceans-july-2025-activity-7349591920844693504-PPbb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAM5Xz0Beprw4UipoHfGQ9-A0j0yAh3v6XM

Infecting 100 million brains is doable with kickstarters like this.  If you have a linked In account give the post some love and repost. Multiplication is the name of the game
 
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One of the goodies we’ll get if we back, even at $1, before Monday, is Joel Salatin talk about Stacking fiefdoms.

I am really looking forward to that, myself. It sounds like Joel has some great and creative ideas about how to get help on the farm and homestead.
 
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We're over $5,000 in American dollars now!!!

We're a quarter of the way to being fully funded!

 
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$5,800!

Thank you everyone for such a strong showing of support so early in the kickstarter!    
 
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Samantha Lewis wrote:

$5,800!

Thank you everyone for such a strong showing of support so early in the kickstarter!    



I'm Not sure how kick starter ranks interest, but I started at $1 then edited my bid over a few hours upping it slightly each time. Hope that works better than just one bid per user.
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$6000!
 
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It's time to reach out to your networks, share the link to the Kickstarter. Paul's regulars have shown up, we are more than 1/4 of the way there, but the second day is when things can slow down.

Everybody Poops!

This is universal technology.
 
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I came by to see how things are going! I think I was backer 105.

Julia Winter wrote:It's time to reach out to your networks, share the link to the Kickstarter.  


I published a promotional blog post late yesterday. I don't know how may have clicked the Kickstarter link so far, but the views are starting to pile up.
 
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Looks like im backer #179!

My first kickstarter backing ever!  

The total now shows $6,572
 
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