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		<title>Peeing in the shower is so yesterday</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nikita Bobenko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read an old news about Brazil where a local green organisation promoted peeing in the shower. Well I think this is a useless campaign cause every normal person is doing it anyway. I for instance have been doing this my whole life. This "new" idea was supposed to save a lot of water [...]]]></description>
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<p>I recently read an <a title="Brazilians Urged to Pee in the Shower to Conserve Water" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/08/05/brazilians-urged-to-pee-in-the-shower-to-conserve-water" target="_blank">old news</a> about Brazil where a local green organisation promoted peeing in the shower. Well I think this is a useless campaign cause every normal person is doing it anyway. I for instance have been doing this my whole life. This "new" idea was supposed to save a lot of water cause as we know flushing on a few drops of pee is really stupid. If it's yellow then let it mellow or go pee in the shower. But don't forget to take a shower at the same time cause otherwise it would be just stupid. So here are some of my ideas about this matter that are new and innovative.</p>
<p>Why don't we just shit in a bag and through it away like rock stars do. Yes you read correctly. Rock stars. Maybe even Britney Spears. As you know entertainers travel by a bus when they are on tour. And most buses have a "no number 2" rule. So if you really wanna go and there is no gas station around then you would have to shit in a bag. You could do the same! Just shit in the bag and afterwards tie a knot on it and put it in garbage. It won't stink unless you through some toothpicks in the same garbage bag.</p>
<p>The second idea would be to have more outdoor toilets. A little nature friendly booth with a hole in the ground. Even those plastic toilets at large events are good. There is no flushing. You can't get more eco than that. Just build a toilet near your office, apartment building or summer home. It's pretty easy. People will be delighted to see a visionary at work.</p>
<p>The third idea is to promote parting and drinking alcohol. When people are drunk enough they stop using toilets and start peeing outside. Mostly guys do it. So they save a lot of drinking water thanks to this premeditated act. The ironic thing is that usually the next morning they drink as much water as they saved the day before. But still the water didn't go to waste.</p>
<p>If you were on a stranded island then would you poor your last bottle of Evian on an alien you just created? No. So why are we acting like we have so much clean water that we can just pour it on shit? Make a change and if you have any ideas about this matter then please post them below.</p>
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		<title>The right type of toilets to use</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nikita Bobenko</dc:creator>
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I've been in the European Union for some time now and life here is definitely different from Ukraine. I should probably start with the basics. Toilets. In the European Union toilets are pretty and clean and have lots of useless decorations like the toilet bowl. Why do you need this big thing to [...]]]></description>
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<p>I've been in the European Union for some time now and life here is definitely different from Ukraine. I should probably start with the basics. Toilets. In the European Union toilets are pretty and clean and have lots of useless decorations like the toilet bowl. Why do you need this big thing to sit on? It's not like you spend hours on it. Maybe if you eat Indian food or something but otherwise you go in and a minute later you are done.</p>
<p>Therefor I think it's a big waste of resources. Why don't we keep it simple like it was in the good old Soviet Union?  Hole-in-the-ground-toilet is completely green. Some eco friendly businesses in Ukraine still use them. We don't need these fancy city toilets where they play relaxing music and soap comes automatically on your hands and in some places a robot wipes your ass after you are done. How lazy can you be? It's not that hard to squat for a few minutes and afterwards use your homemade soap and collected rainwater to wash your hands.</p>
<p>Besides saving the earth there is another great benefit. These eco toilets usually don't have walls. Some have small walls to keep people from splashing things on each other. So it's a great way to meet people and start conversations. Imagine doing number two while someone else is doing the same thing in front of you. It's a very intimate situation that wouldn't happen on the street. So metaphorically and literally the walls are down and you can communicate freely. Who needs social networks? Beside perverts I mean.</p>
<p>I have an idea to build a hole-in-the-ground-toilet network all over Europe! Maybe one day it could be launched in America as well. Benefits will be enormous. Please give me some constructive feedback!</p>
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