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How to Camp

Water, Shelter, Excreta Management, Wastewater, Transportation, and Energy Systems
for Short or Long Term, in the Wild, or on Your Own Land

Summary: This is the workspace for a book and open source health and safty code for camping as natural recreation and low impact, low cost housing. Please E mail us your ideas and comments.

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Design

Principles of Ecological Design (article) General ecological design principles, highly applicable to camping.

Ecological design Q&A

Maruata at the Crossroads (book) 80 pages of useful technologies for camping (in Spanish).

Design for Community (book)

Nature & balance gallery Pretty pictures.

Water

Understanding water class

Wild Water Wisdom (article) How to get body, clothes and dishes clean in the wilderness without getting natural waters dirty.

Water quality testing (download)

Shelter

Can a 4000 ft2 Home be Green? Low square footage per person is a primary characteristic of campaing and the #1 driving factor behind it's low ecological impact.

The Hand-Sculpted House (book) A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage.

Yurt bath house Example of suburban camping.

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Excreta Mangagement

Population density is the #1 factor for choice of excreta management technology.

Maruata at the Crossroads (book) Good overview of excreta management options by population density (in Spanish).

Earth, Orchard Toilet Plans

Green septic system

Composting toilets (book)

Watson Wicks

Backcountry Sanitation Review

Wastewater

The New Create an Oasis with Grey Water (book)

Grey water central

Transportation

The Way of the Bicycle (book) tips, tricks, designs and techniques for touring, commuting and mountain biking, bicycle activism, honed over 25 years touring and commuting in 25 countries, three million feet of elevation gain on the same mountain bike.