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YMCA Camp Belknap adds Clivus Composting System

YMCA Camp Belknap is a boys camp founded in 1903 in Mirror Lake, NH on Lake Winnipesaukee. After a century of growth, it was time to look into upgrades with sustainability in mind. Following the reconfiguration and expansion of the Juniors Division cabin area, a new bathhouse was built to round out the renovations. Camp directors contacted Clivus New England to find the most cost effective and environmentally sound solution to deal with restroom waste.

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Squam Lakes Natural Science Center

The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center (SLNSC) in Holderness, NH, was founded in 1966, and since then visitation has grown to 61,000 annually.  With hiking trails, gardens, playground, animal preserve and zoo, interactive exhibits, environmental education, and lake cruises it is easy to find something to interest everyone.  With the growth of the center the need for more restrooms emerged, but the directors wanted to maintain their message of conservation and preservation.  By installing a Clivus waste

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Clivus answers the Living Building Challenge

The “Living Building Challenge” is probably the most rigorous of the sustainable building protocols, and Clivus New England has what it takes to answer the water conservation challenge.  You can find Clivus waste treatment systems at three of Massachusetts’ newest LBC projects: Kellogg House at Williams College, Williamstown, MA; The Kern Center at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA; and The Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst, MA.   Through a combination of composters with waterless or 3-ounce foam-flush toilets, and

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YES ON 6: Support RI’s ecology and economy!

Question 6 is designed to protect Rhode Island’s beautiful, natural resources while preserving, and increasing, the tourism that bolsters the state’s economy.  By using grants funded through the Green Economy Bond city, town, and state parks can provide and maintain environmentally friendly infrastructures that support facilities for tourists.  Clivus New England’s composting toilet systems have long been used in creating sustainable recreation areas throughout Rhode Island, and Question 6 will help continue our partnership for years to come.  VOTE

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Crane Beach Opens Sustainable Bathhouse!

1 2 3 ► Crane Beach in Ipswich, MA has been a landmark in the coastal Northeast for close to a century. Families have flocked to this gorgeous beach for decades. Operated and maintained by The Trustees of the Reservations as a recreation spot, it is also a conservation area that serves as the home of a wildlife refuge and the nesting grounds for the endangered piping plover. With the old restrooms and septic system

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