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European Toilet Carrier Redesigned For American Market, Fits in 2×4 Wall

9:54 am in bathroom, lifeedited, toilet by TreeHugger

gerberit wall mounted toilet bracket When I asked Why Are North American Toilets So Crappy?, questioning why we don't use European-style wall-hung toilets, almost all of the commenters suggested that I was, well, full of it. Complaints ranged from a) they are not as efficient to b) you cannot service it to c) they are too expensive to d) why am I writing ads for Geberit? But in fact, I learn fromRead the full story on TreeHugger

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More On The Gates Foundation’s Plans To Reinvent The Toilet (Video)

1:06 pm in bathroom, bill gates, green design, toilet by TreeHugger

Yesterday I expressed some reservations about the Gates Foundation plans to reinvent the toilet in Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet. I was concerned that they were looking for a solution to a problem that was not technological but societal; that we need to relearn lessons from the past rather than looking for new toilets for the future. Perhaps it was the wording of the press release, the "reinventing the toilet" language. In fact, this video fr...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The History of the Bathroom Part 3: Putting Plumbing Before People

1:34 pm in bathroom, health care, toilet, wayback machine by TreeHugger

american bathroom 1915 image Image credit Siegfried Gideon via Thomas Wagner The really amazing thing about this standard "bathroom" from 1915, ninety-seven years ago, is how much it looks like the standard bathrooms of today. How did it get this way, and how did we get stuck in such a rut? ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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