Ray Cirino’s  Butt House Cob Workshop

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 Why hasn’t anyone really made a restroom fun and educational? How come when there is a composting toilet made its hidden away in the woods with hardly any details to make it last in your mind?

 We plan on changing all the myths and scary things that have been attached to resting in that room. They call it that to avoid scaring people or calling it a bathroom to avoid dealing with that so called problem. Well now you can help yourself in learning cob and composting in our first cob workshop here at Water Woman Gardens. Serious attention will be put to this structure and the importance of composting. First it will resemble a butt so it’s easy to know what it is and we all know what that does.  Second it will have no smell except for gardenia, roses, mint, or lavender that surround it. Third the hardware details will mimic the microbs that digest the nutrients. The roof  a living roof  able to catch  rainwater for the garden. The shape of the entrance uses the venturi effect to stream a breeze in with an updraft from the passive solar glass blocks heating the floor. Let’s make this workshop bring the right attention in a fun way to solve the problems and myths of restrooms once and for all. Imagine what you can come up with for your space and have the skill to do it.

When: July 12-13

Where: 3983 East Blvd. Mar Vista, CA 90066

How much: $100 for the weekend  

What to bring: Most tools are here as we mostly use our hands. Make sure you bring a note pad, old clothes-shoes, food for solar cooker (veggies), sense of humor and a friend.

Note: You are invited for free after your initial class to continue the project including plaster, living roof, fine woodworking, and composting techniques until the butt is completed. For more information on all the things you’ll be learning check out: http://people.tribe.net/raycirino/photos

Call: 818-834-7074 RSVP by sending check or money order to Ray Cirino

3983 East Blvd. Mar Vista, CA 90066 Deadline for signing up is July 10. Maximum 30 cobbers.

Children welcome! 

The Great Challenges we now face as a species present the very opportunities that are giving birth to Ecological, Psychological, and Spiritual Sustainability.