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2024 ASLE Spotlight: Extinctions and Extractions

Featuring: Kate Rigby (Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction) Kory Russel (Designing for the Intimate Shared Reality of All Species) Beatrice Szymkowiak (B/RDS) Michael Tondre (Oil! by Upton Sinclair) Co-Hosts: Dominic O’Key and Sumita Chakraborty

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UO Today interview: Kory Russel, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies, Univ. of Oregon

Kory Russel, an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, discusses his work on Container-Based Sanitation solutions in the global south. He talks about the positive impact the solution has on mitigating climate change. Russel also describes the work of the Landscape4Humanity initiative that has partnered with SquareOne Villages in Eugene to enhance transitional housing living spaces. http://ohc.uoregon.edu

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Kory Russell , Co-founder, CBSA

TBC Interview Series: Container Based Sanitation Alliance CBSA is a #coalition of #ContainerBasedSanitation practitioners around the world with extensive experience in developing and providing CBS services. The founders of the CBSA are situated in #Ghana, #Madagascar, #Kenya, #Haiti, #Peru and #India. Kory Russel, Co-founder of CBSA talks about the importance of an #alliance for container based sanitation solutions in informal settlements and marginalised settlements, the #cbs model infrastructure, the #revenue applications and the impact of #covid19, while pondering upon the future of the CBSA.

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Rethinking Human Waste

Explore container-based sanitation (CBS) - and its role in a new "poop cycle" that benefits people and environment - with University of Oregon environmental scientist Kory Russel. This video was produced by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History as part of H2O TODAY, an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and adapted from the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

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EPA’s P3 Student Teams: Innovating Our Sustainable Future

NOTE: If you need captions, please click the CC button on the player to turn them on. Today we are confronted by rapidly increasing trends in water and energy use, population growth and resource consumption. This supports the need to action to create a sustainable future for the planet without sacrificing the needs of future generations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages college and university students to protect human health and the environment through EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) competition. Teams of graduate and undergraduate students focus on challenges facing the developed and developing worlds to design tangible, cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems. P3 competitors create, innovate and strive to make a difference. Hear what these students and faculty have to say about EPA’s program and their experience at the annual P3 National Sustainable Design Expo. For more on EPA’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition, go to http://www.epa.gov/P3 For more about EPA: http://www.epa.gov/ We accept comments according to our comment policy: http://blog.epa.gov/blog/comment-policy/

Presentations

2021 - APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Live Webinar Series. Session 3: Urban Sanitation and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Container-Based Sanitation. Sept. 13.

2021 - Rich Earth Institute Summit 2021. Online (Battleboro, Vermont). Speaker for Session: Global Partnerships for Urine Reclamation. http://richearthinstitute.org/global-partnerships-for-urine-reclamation/

2021 - World Water Week 2021. Online (Stockholm, Sweden). Speaker in Session: Catalyzing sustainable futures for sanitation? Innovative financing and planning tools. August 26.

2021 - Colorado WASH Symposium. Speaker for Session: The Future of Container-Based Sanitation: Innovative, Cost-Effective, and Climate Positive. Boulder, Colorado. March 11 – 12.

2020 - APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference 2020. New Zealand. The Future of Wastewater and Sanitation Working Group Leader. December 14-18.

2020 - Making Do Conference. Virtual Symposium. Reversing the Flow: Global South to Global North Knowledge Transfer. November 20.

2020 - Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy. The University of North Carolina. Virtual Poster. Calculating the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Container-based Sanitation Systems. October 27.

2020 - Rich Earth Institute Summit. Online (Battleboro, Vermont). Speaker and Moderator for Session: Container-based sanitation alliance notes from the field. September 16.

2020 - World Water Week 2020. Online (Stockholm, Sweden). Speaker in Session: Convergence of sanitation and climate crises. Break-out session 1: Using Emissions Data. August 24.

2020 - Institute for Health and the Built Environment. Building Health: Environmental. Designed. Determinants. Virtual Symposium. Speaker for Session: Housing Determinants – Water reuse and Container-based sanitation. May 14.

2019 – Global Sanitation Economy Summit 2019. Pune, India. Panelist: The Sanitation Economy and Climate Change. Nov 18 – 21.

2019 – Container-Based Sanitation Alliance Session at World Water Week 2019. Stockholm, Sweden. Speaker and Moderator for Session: Container based sanitation: Affordable and innovative services for all. August 25 – 30.

2019 – Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2019 Conference: Engaged Scholarship Panel. Landscape for Humanity: New design pedagogies for critical landscape engagement. Sacramento, California. March 8.

2019 – Combined AfricaSan5 and Fifth International Fecal Sludge Management (FSM5) Conferences. Cape Town, South Africa. Speaker in several sessions including: 1) Container Based Systems and Capacity Building. 2) Private Sector Dialogue: Promoting the Enabling Environment for Non-sewered Sanitation. 3) Monitoring and Using Evidence to Improve Hygiene and Sanitation: Accelerating Sanitation Access Through Mobile IT. 4) Achieving Urban Equality Workshop: The Potential of CBS for Realizing the Human Right to Sanitation in Urban Settings. February 18-22.

2018 – APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes. Hong Kong, China. The Future of wastewater and Sanitation Working Group Leader. September 6 – 9.

2018 – World Water Week 2018. Stockholm, Sweden. Container Based Sanitation and the Sanitation Economy. August 28.

2018 - ASLA Oregon Design Symposium. Portland, Oregon. Healthy Places, Healthy People.

2017 – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation User Centered Design for Sanitation Convening. Seattle Washington. Participant representing the CBSA and re.source sanitation. September 25 – 28.

2017 – APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes. Portland, Oregon. The Future of wastewater and Sanitation Working Group Leader. September 15 – 17.

2017 – Sanitation Community of Practice (SanCop) 19. University College, London. Container-Based Sanitation Alliance and Sanitation Safety Planning. April 6.

2016 – Global Toilet Business, Innovation & Investment Summit. Mumbai, India. Co-facilitator for Container Toilet Meeting. November 17.

2016 - HEST Seminar Oregon State University. Corvallis, Oregon. Rethinking Urban Infrastructure and Services: Capturing Waste and Creating Resources in Cap Haitien, Haiti. May 2.

2016 – Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco. Expanding sanitation services: Impacts of a container-based, household toilet and human waste collection service in a dense urban slum of Cap Haitien, Haiti. April 1.

2015 – Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy. University of North Carolina. Does the installation of improved water sources impact the burden of water fetching? Results from Nampula, Mozambique. October 27.

2015 – Third International Fecal Sludge Management (FSM3) Conference. Hanoi, Vietnam. Impacts of a container-based household toilet and waste collection service in Cap Haitien, Haiti. January 20.

2014 – Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy. University of North Carolina. Impacts of a container-based household toilet and waste collection service in Cap Haitien, Haiti. October 16.

2013 – International Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Symposium. Stanford University. re.source: Piloting a low cost container-based household sanitation service. May 17.

2011 – International Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Symposium. Stanford University. Measurement and Modeling of Water Fetching Energy Expenditure. April 15.

2011 – Chi Crossroads Conference, The Woods Institute for the Environment. Stanford University. FIB and nitrate contamination of water supplied by SSIPs and the water utility in Maputo, Mozambique. January 14.

News Articles and Web-based Media

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A team of landscape architecture students (Adam DeHeer, Nicholas Sund, Summer Young and Emma Hershey) advised by Prof. Russel recently won the 2019 ASLA Award for Excellence in Residential Design. Find out more here.

2023 - Maybe It's Time for a Bidet. Dwell Magazine

2022 - Landscape for Humanity: Project-Based Education with a Compassionate Focus from the College of Design

2021 - Are bidets really better for the planet than toilet paper? Sarah Kiley Watson. Popular Science

2021 - The 2021 Faculty Research Awards go to 12 UO scholars

2021 - I3 seed funding program awards grants to four research teams

2019 - UO Resilience Initiative seed funding - Core team member of "Grid enhancing resilient housing" and "Integrated social, environmental and economic justice framework to build resilient communities for vulnerable unhoused populations."

2019 - UO LA student team won the 2019 ASLA Student Award of Excellence for Residential Design: Codesigning Green Sanitation Infrastructure: A Framework for Informal Settlements

Ko, Abelman, and Russel Win 2019 University of Oregon Sustainability Award for Town & Gown. University of Oregon, Office of Sustainability.

Students Dig In At Opportunity Village

WASHNote - AfricaSan is now five! And we are learning fast

Landscape Architecture Students Clean Up in EPA Design Competition. University of Oregon College of Design. December 6, 2018.

Rethinking Human Waste. University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. February 2, 2018