Edmonton Sun: They've tried to win over our hearts and minds. Now, in a fight for the planet, environmentalists are asking us to put our butts on the front lines. After successful campaigns to vilify SUVs, bottled water and your grandmother's mink coat, a growing global movement is aimed at the almo...

Two and a half pounds of carrots. Four complete chess sets. Three pounds of gummi bears. Eighteen large hot dogs. Three and a half pounds of grapes. Twenty golf balls. This toilet is awesome. If you try this at home with your toilet, kids, you may need the help of Toiletology to unstop the works. Yo...

I never would have thought, until I had spent some time immersed in the world of permaculture and growing my own, that a large pile of rotting manure could be a source of such pleasure. There is something utterly magical about the biological processes that go on in a pile of decomposing organic matt...

How’s this for a restaurant with — literally — a shitty theme? Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your meal atop a mi...

Large bowel movements + low-flow toilet = problems. So, all the units in my building have low-flow toilets (1.6 gpf). Ordinarily they work pretty well, but since I've made some changes to my diet I've been having monster-sized feces. 10-12", and dense. Pretty much every time I go, the toilet ge...

Many people assume that morality — our sense of what is “right” and just in this world versus what is wrong — is something we formulate through a process of time, experience and thinking. We equate morality with higher reasoning and not a base instinct like hunger or the need...

We have heard references to websites devoted to ranking public rest rooms, but we’ve never taken the time to look.  Until now. Cintas - yep, the uniform people - has a service division, where they will clean and stock your facilities.  To promote those services, each year they look for Ameri...

(Says Scanner Emily: I need this!) VIA THE MODERN MATERIALIST: Yesterday, I showed you a lamp, and a fish bowl that secretly hid sex toys. Today, as you can see above, a designer has gone ahead and developed a paper towel holder that is ALSO a secret sex toy. Since this seems like a fun game, herewi...

  Spinal Tap confirmed they will play an acoustic tour that will hit Vancouver, Seattle, New York, and several other North American cities. Eddie Murphy will finally get what he always wanted? No, not an Oscar-- it's the chance to play Richard Pryor. Last year, we brought you the story of a...

Image credit: The Guardian Green Groups Claim Soft TP is Worse than SUVs Our sister site Planet Green has already explored 9 green toilet paper tips, but the struggle continues. From a purely symbolic standpoint, it's hard to think of a more anti-environmental action than cutting down a tree, pulpin...