Harrington Blog

It’s common sense that a clean and healthy environment contributes to enhanced survival opportunities for all livings things on the planet. Unfortunately, we as Americans face a variety of environmental issues. Apart from the CO2 emissions that most of us are aware of, the U.S. is facing soil pollution, water pollution, garbage disposal issues, deforestation, acidification of ocean water, ozone layer depletion, radioactive contamination, mine pollution.

Sir John Harrington (aka Harington) was a poet – an author, a revolutionary, and a lover of women. But his poetry was not why he would be remembered. Something much more ‘down to earth’ was to be his legacy. He invented the lavatory.

Piped water may be the greatest convenience ever known but our sewage systems and bathrooms are a disaster.

Have you ever wondered just how much grease fast food restaurants produce daily, monthly or even yearly? Here is a nice visual that reveals how much grease the average fast food restaurant in the United States produces. Additionally, discover how much grease is produced over a week, a month, and even a year.

Aerobic septic systems are used in situations where standard septic systems are not a viable option. In many cases, aerobic systems and septic protectors are used to replace failing septic systems. Aerobic systems are similar to septic systems in that they both use natural processes to treat wastewater. But unlike septic (anaerobic) treatment, the aerobic treatment process requires oxygen.

Digging the sewerage of Paris was no small task. The last ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to finish, any more than they could finish Paris. The sewer, in fact, receives all the counterstrokes of the growth of Paris. It is in the ground a species of dark polypus with a thousand antennæ, which grows below, equally with the city above.

Entering the Tomb of the Commonwealth and the Alchemy of the mind.  So much is spoken of the environment and of solutions great and small, from men whom profess be pioneers and patriarchs of the Dream, to lesser base shadows of men whom cannot think but of profit or with such distanced distain as that of little men with little minds that We find Our planet in such peril.

The Secret Story of the Sewer-Men, the Septic-Men, The Men of the underground, The Environmental-Men. Today let us consider the wisdom of a solution from Our European History.

Mud and Shit is difficult ever be well famed., Yet there is a constituency of dunces that makes topics perhaps unworthy of table talk and considered  ill reputation, into one of  extended manifest terror.  Today let us consider the wisdom of a solution from Our European History.

Tis a Season to Reap, and Tis a season to Sow, yet We cannot raise the cane and wheat back up when it’s in defeat. The Environment and eco system of the planet is a living breathing entity, fragile, tactile, Our support system, one that circles back to the ingress and egress of life, the intake and outtake, haute cuisine to the olde Septic system and the olde sewer. Today let us turn to and consider the wisdom of a solution 200 years ago in France.