2010

New partnerships enabled us to broaden our mission to include research on ecological sanitation options suitable for adoption in urban areas. PHLUSH participated on a committee led by International Code Council to draft a Global Guideline for Practical Public Toilet Design.  A signage campaign entitled “Telling Visitors to Old Town Chinatown where to go” was…

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2005

In early 2005, the Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association invited newly-elected Portland Mayor Tom Potter to visit the neighborhood. As a result of the ensuing dialogue, the neighborhood took on the challenges of engaging the issue of public toilets as a part of a collaborative process with the city. The PHLUSH initiative originated in mid…

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2006

PHLUSH presented Public Restrooms for Old Town Chinatown: A Report to the Communityfor adoption by the Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association and other local groups. We later advised Relief Works, a graduate team at Portland State University School of Urban Studies, on the publication of Going Public: Strategies for Meeting Public Restroom Need in Portland’s…

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2007

Three PHLUSH volunteers are appointed by Portland Mayor Tom Potter to the Restroom Implementation Team which opened seven new toilets in downtown Portland and put contemporary signage on historic comfort stations.   In collaboration with Central City Concern and with the Village Building Convergence 7 of City Repair, PHLUSH hosted community toilet design workshops.

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2008

PHLUSH Public Restroom Design Principles were adopted by neighborhood groups. PHLUSH supported the launch of The Portland Loo and served on design team for Ankeny Plaza restroom complex.

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2011

PHLUSH expanded our knowledge and website content regarding ecological sanitations, and regularly replied to inquiries from grassroots North American groups promoting public restrooms. We conducted a Toilets for Emergencies fall campaign in collaboration with The Cloacina Project, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and compost toilet team of the New Zealand Permaculture Guild.  A paper on…

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2012

The City of Portland Bureau of Emergency Management endorsed the Twin-Bucket Emergency Toilet. We developed public leaflet based on The Cloacina Project‘s Sewer Catastrophe Companion. PHLUSH spoke at 18 community events. We launched a newsletter Pee, Poo and You! and participated in Reinventing the Toilet events at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. We hosted a 3-day…

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2013

The Annual Report for 2012 was released. A Restorative Sanitation exhibit premiered at the NVOAD conference and was visited by key FEMA and CDC staff. Jeff Holiman represented PHLUSH at the Sustainable Phosphorus Research Coordination Network kick off in Washington, DC. Oxford University Press releases Phosphorus, Food and Our Future to which Carol McCreary is…

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2014

For the Multnomah County, Oregon Department of Emergency Management organized a workshop in partnership with Recode and the PDNA Emergency Preparedness Committee. For Jefferson County, Washington, the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), convened a study group that proposed emergency sanitation policy, helped draft Twin Bucket system leaflets for households with sewered and onsite systems, and partnered…

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2015

PHLUSH assisted a Portland City Commissioner in drafting resolution on All-User Restrooms, which passed unanimously on December 17th. We advised the team redesigning Seattle Parks restroom to meet all-gender specifications. We issued the 65-page Public Toilet Advocacy Toolkit for World Toilet Day. Jeff Holiman co-authored with Helen Rowe et al. Integrating legacy soil phosphorus into…

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