{"id":21012,"date":"2014-02-10T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21012"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:56:43","slug":"the-anglican-wave-of-the-future-composting-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-wave-of-the-future-composting-toilets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican wave of the future: composting toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a flash of rare brilliance, the Church of England has found a new way to entice the next generation of Anglicans into its churches: the opportunity to do number two in a church supplied composting toilet. It doesn\u2019t get any more seeker friendly than that.<\/p>\n<p>I do think the church might still be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2008\/08\/080821-human-waste.html\" target=\"_blank\">go one step further<\/a>, though; especially parishes with adjacent allotments.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/comment\/2014\/02\/churches-in-devon-changing-the-world-one-dot-at-a-time.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In our office we have a large map entitled \u2018Devon\u2019s Green Churches\u2019 which contains a series of dots and stars covering the county from Ilfracombe to Ivybridge. Each symbol represents a church with a composting toilet or solar panels, or has completed an energy survey, or is registered as fair-trade or an \u2018eco-congregation\u2019, or runs a wood-burning heating system, and so on. They are examples of church eco projects. In total there are more than 200 coloured symbols and we add more each few weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a flash of rare brilliance, the Church of England has found a new way to entice the next generation of Anglicans into its churches: the opportunity to do number two in a church supplied composting toilet. It doesn\u2019t get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-anglican-wave-of-the-future-composting-toilets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[2089,716],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco-cobblers","tag-church-of-england","tag-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}