Holy Crap! (the film)… now on YouTube!
Have you seen this wonderful little (5 minute) film about SOIL yet?
read moreAl Jazeera: The world can’t afford to keep wasting soil
By Stan Cox, in Al Jazeera on January 12, 2012. One-third of Earth’s soil is degraded because of unsustainable farming methods, which could lead to a major food crisis. Salina, Kansas – Late last year, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the state of the world’s soil and water resources. The bottomline: 25 per cent of the world’s food-producing soils are highly degraded or are rapidly being degraded. Add to that other soils which they say are degrading...
read moreNational Geographic Video: Putting Waste To Work by SOIL’s Sasha Kramer
SOIL’s Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, gives a talk at National Geographic on fighting Haiti’s most pressing health, economic and environmental problems, one toilet at a time. This follows up a previous article in the National Geographic in October on SOIL’s attempt to use human waste to revive farmland and the nomination of Sasha as a 2011 National Geographic “Emerging Explorer”....
read moreFairfield Citizen: Guest column / After 4 years in Haiti, a plea to help island nation by Jess Lozier
By Jess Lozier, in the Fairfield Citizen, December 20, 2011 I recently returned home to Fairfield from Haiti, capping off four years of living and working in Cap-Haitien and in Port-au-Prince. I start medical school in January, and I know it will be several years before I will be able to return to the Caribbean island nation that had been my home for so long. I struggled to say goodbye to a place that has shaped everything about me, from my love of rice and beans and voodoo-drum beats to my desire to pursue a career in international...
read moreSmart Planet: Safe sanitation systems close the loop on poop by Mary Catherine O’Connor
By Mary Catherine O’Connor in Smart Planet, November 19, 2011 Today is the 10th annual World Toilet Day. Sponsored by the Singapore-based World Toilet Organization, the event is meant to build awareness about the risks that lack of sanitation present to the physical, emotional and psychological health of 2.6 billion people around the world. Fortunately, poor sanitation is receiving an increasing amount of attention from NGOs, academics and other problem-solvers around the world. But there’s time to waste, since lack of hygiene...
read moreCatalyst: Empowered by Poop: Invigorating Soil and Livelihood in Haiti
By Rasha Shihabi, Catalyst, November 7, 2011 A special project lead by SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihood) attempts to use a new type of public toilets to address Haiti’s devastating sanitation issues. SOIL hopes that not only will their efforts address the country’s sanitation crisis, but will also provide the people of Haiti with the means to revitalize their farmland, limit the spread of disease and aid in the creation of jobs. This resourceful project has been using a strategically design sanitation system reliant on...
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