Archive for November, 2009

PHLUSH Co-Founders Bound for World Toilet Summit

November 29, 2009
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Thanks to the support of the Old Town Chinatown community and a few other friends of PHLUSH from other part of Portland, Barb Lescher and Carol McCreary are ticketed passengers on a flight to Singapore.       We will be speaking at the World Toilet Summit.    You can preview our presentations here....

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World Toilet Day celebrated globally at the grass roots

November 20, 2009
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World Toilet Day celebrated globally at the grass roots

As the sun sets on Portland, 24 hours of celebration around the world come to a close. November 19 marks World Toilet Day, an annual project of the World Toilet Organization to bring light-hearted awareness to a dead serious crisis.   Two and a half billion of our fellow humans, or 2 out of...

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Join the PHLUSH Singapore Challenge!

November 10, 2009
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Join the PHLUSH Singapore Challenge!

With inspiration from the folks at Sisters of the Road Café, we’re launching the PHLUSH Singapore Challenge.  You see, they’re passing the hat to support  PHLUSH.   Former café manager Nikki Jardin is the PHLUSH Co-Founder who suggested the name with our mission:  Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human. How about joining with colleagues at...

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PHLUSHers heading for Singapore soon

November 5, 2009
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PHLUSHers heading for Singapore soon

Tickets have been booked to permit two PHLUSH Co-Founders to speak at the the World Toilet Summit in Singapore on December 3, 2009.     Organizers of the eighth annual event invited PHLUSH to share Portland’s experience in increasing the availability of public restrooms with experts from around the world. Barbara Lescher will present...

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Celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19th

November 5, 2009
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Celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19th

Celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19th Seedfolks Roots & Shoots and 4-H Clubshttp://milwaukee.uwex.edu/youth/4h/documents/TheBigSquat.pdf are inviting you to squat with us for one minute to draw awareness to this serious problem. We would like to have a squatting line that winds throughout the church! World Toilet Day is coming on November 19. I know...

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PHLUSH is an all-volunteer advocacy group based in Portland's Old Town Chinatown. We collaborate with grassroots organizations, environmental activists, planners, architects, code officials and city managers. We receive support from the Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association and Neighbors West-Northwest. PHLUSH is a member of the World Toilet Organization, a partner in the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance and serves on the global public toilet design committee of the International Code Council.

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