Molly Winter: The taboo secret to better health
Molly Winter: Utajované tabu o lepším zdraví
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drinking water comes from,
odkud pochází moje pitná voda
moje hovínka a čurání.
„Princezna Hovínek“
"The Poo Princess" in my family,
because this is not normal.
is the first step in activating
jaké skvělé vlastnosti
in our poop and pee.
and more beautifully.
in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
and feelings come to mind.
with treated sewage water.
how innovative we can be.
like "shit" and "piss,"
like "poo" and "pee." Eh.
like "excrement" and "feces." Humph.
are going to this treatment plant
than a treatment plant.
of all those layers of gravel --
for those marsh plants.
that comes out the other end
to water each person's yard.
Integrated Water Management,
of how we think about sanitation,
we're doing one step better.
from the very beginning,
really beautiful spaces.
about this system
jaký z toho máte pocit.
innovation in sanitation?
the new normal?
and development practices.
whole categories of innovation --
live more beautifully --
were written under the assumption
would remain best practices,
až do konce věků.
jen postupné vylepšování.
about any particular new technique
how innovative we can be.
jak inovativní dokáme být.
we don't innovate in sanitation.
talking about sanitation,
"The Poo Princess" so much.
„Princezna Hovínek“.
here in the US.
from drinking shit in out sewage water.
holisticky, komplexně
approach to making it better.
v Portlandu v Oregonu,
during the rainy season,
sometimes into our river.
go to the same treatment plant.
odpadní voda přetéká přímo do řeky.
jen částečně vyčištěnou odpadní vodu
sewage into our waterways.
with our status quo
is going to fertilize farmland.
in your daily doody.
as a health smoothie for a tree.
all the drugs we take into our waterways.
can remove maybe half of the drugs
right out the other side.
of pharmaceuticals --
that we need to contain.
we can create a resource
z druhé strany,
of our other problems.
comfortable with this idea,
to show you, these technologies,
na nočník pro pokročilé.
for advanced potty training.
reasons to enroll today.
and peeing something
or maybe all of our food,
is dark brown because of what?
that into the soil,
and nutrients in there.
don't have carbon in them.
and our human manure to our soil,
on fossil fuel-based fertilizers,
z velkých dálek.
contaminating this reuse cycle.
tento recyklační okruh.
about talking about poo and pee
about how we want to reuse it
carbon dioxide that we put into the air.
slow down global warming.
this advanced potty training approach.
'Cause they save money? Yeah.
Protože šetří peníze? Ano.
they felt comfortable
down the toilet as a resource.
in Portland, Oregon.
because they have a composting toilet
over time, into a soil amendment.
is going underground
in five other states nearby.
first code-change campaign.
mojí organizace -
the Integrated Water Management approach
buildings in downtown Portland,
to the sewer system.
is getting reused to flush toilets,
has thoroughly used everything --
right on-site by plants and bacteria,
vyčištěno rostlinami a bakteriemi
into the groundwater right below.
sewer infrastructure.
we should get really excited
of its kind in Oregon.
sat down and felt comfortable saying,
everything on-site.
infrastructure -- and it is old --
the pipes snaking through our city.
to treat and reuse everything on-site.
and their rainwater
save as a community would be so big.
these projects so innovative?
ty projekty tak úspěšné?
of advanced potty training.
innovation for sanitation
to be uncommon and unaffordable.
neznámá a cenově nedostupná
of our web of power than ever before.
about the problems
where our current energy is coming from.
to work on this issue --
better batteries, everything.
lepší baterie, všechno.
our drinking water is coming from,
with this entire topic,
that creates our future goldmine.
havoc in some waterway?"
v nějakém vodním toku?“
to those who can drive this change
that you are ready for reuse.
how innovative we can be.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Molly Winter - DesignerMolly Winter works on legalizing sustainable building practices.
Why you should listen
Designer, researcher, and illustrator Molly Winter thinks a lot about something most of us would rather not dwell on: wastewater treatment and sanitation innovation -- or rather the lack thereof. She is director of Recode, a nonprofit that works on legalizing innovation beyond just sanitation and accelerating adoption of sustainable building and development practices. She has created visual explanations for organizations including Beacon Food Forest, People's Food Coop, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, Medical Reserve Corp and USA Today. Molly's work has been featured in MIT's Design Issues, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Smith magazine and Sustainability Review.
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