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Gray water's grass roots (in the Christian Science Monitor)

Date: 
Jan 27 2010

Gray water's grass roots

In a grass-roots effort, a Los Angeles community pushes the plant-saving practice of reusing water from showers, baths, sinks, and washers.

Read about Greywater Action's class for greywater installer's in the Christian Science Monitor.

In El Cerrito, Taming runoff

Date: 
Jan 4 2010

Read about El Cerrito's low impact design work and urban creek restoration efforts.

Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting

Date: 
Dec 4 2009

Time (Magazine) takes a look at waterless toilet options.

Graywater: UCLA gives Southern California a mixed grade

Date: 
Dec 3 2009

LA Times blog article by Susan Carpenter takes a look at the new report out about graywater in California and discusses why the state received a lower grade in graywater education than for policy.

Report- Graywater: A Potential Source of Water

Date: 
Dec 1 2009

UCLA's Institute of the Environment released their fall report looking at the potential of greywater to be a source of water. The state received a B+ for greywater policy, and a B- for greywater education.

A Victory for the 'Water Underground'

Date: 
Oct 13 2009

Bone-dry California eases restrictions on greywater use, allowing wastewater from washing machines and bathtubs to spill onto the state's lawns and lemon trees.

Read more about the process of creating the new code for California in Miller-McCune's on-line environmental magazine.

Greywater Dominoes

Date: 
Oct 13 2009

As Californians start looking seriously at using greywater for home irrigation, all roads — or pipes — lead to Art Ludwig

Read more about Art Ludwig and the road to changing the California greywater code.

State revises standards for reusing wastewater

Date: 
Sep 18 2009

SF Chronicle article covers a greywater workshop in Fairfax, following the new state guidelines.

Examiner: California gray water laws loosen

Date: 
Aug 26 2009

Green Talk Radio- Attacking Water Waste

Date: 
Aug 25 2009

 Interview with Laura Allen on Green Talk Radio. 

Real Drought Relief: State Gives Green Light To Graywater

Date: 
Aug 23 2009

by Traci Sheehan in CA Progressive Report.

The Goods on Greywater

Date: 
Jul 31 2009

Thorough article on the process leading up to the new California greywater code in the Bay Area Monitor, by Deia de Brito.

For some eco pioneers, solving the sludge problem meant getting their hands dirty.

Date: 
May 6 2009

Crap Happens: A GRIST special report about how we dispose of our poop. (featuring Laura Allen's composting toilet)

Governing Magazine: Shades of Greywater

Date: 
May 1 2009

By Josh Goodman.

LA Times: Gray water: from the washer to the garden

Date: 
Sep 27 2008

LA Times staff writer Susan Carpenter comes to a workshop and goes home to build a greywater system.

The Morning Show on KPFA Radio

Date: 
Aug 12 2008

The last half hour features an interview with Laura Allen and John Russel.

ABC News: Using 'greywater' to help the environment

Greywater Radio

Date: 
Sep 22 2007

Interview with Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Laura Allen on Sierra Club Radio.

Green City: Gray-water Guerrillas

Date: 
Sep 12 2007

Article in the SF Bay Guardian.

KRON News: Greywater

Date: 
Jul 5 2007

Short video about Laura Allen's house. In the past few years many of these systems have been upgraded- in particular the wetland aspect of the systems has been removed as the wetland plants were using up a significant portion of the greywater and there was not enough for the rest of the plants.

NY Times:The Dirty Water Underground

Date: 
May 31 2007

Article in the New York Times about the Greywater Guerrillas. Note: some of the systems in the article have been upgrade- see examples from the website for current system examples.

Dam Nation

Date: 
May 29 2007

Interview with Cleo Woelfle-Erskine on Ecoshock Features on Radio Ecoshock.