Jenna Senecal completed her master's thesis looking at the performance of using human urine as a fertilizer with spinach. Motivated by the inefficient systems of managing human waste, she's now working at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences developing systems to safely recycle the nutrients from human waste back into agricultural systems - an essential part of a sustainable society, both in developed and developing countries.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (McDonough, W. and M. Braungart (2002). Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York, Macmillan.)
Closing The Loop: Ecological sanitation for food security (Esrey, S. A., I. Andersson, et al. (2001). Closing the loop: Ecological sanitation for food security. New York, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.)
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters (George, R. (2008). The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. New York. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.)
