Carol Steinfeld is a writer, researcher, and resource-recycling specialist who writes about ecological resource management solutions. She is the co-author of The Composting Toilet System Book and Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling. As projects director for Ecowaters, a nonprofit public information project, she conducts workshops worldwide. She is currently working on a new book.

Her articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, Natural Home, Landscape Architecture, Journal of Soil & Water Conservation, and many other publications.

"Cutting-edge 'applied ecology' needs translators, teachers, and chroniclers. Your articles and publications are fine examples of this job well done." -- Jim Schley, Chelsea Green Publishing