This November a small team from SOIL traveled to the 2013 International Permaculture Congress taking place in Cuba to take a Permaculture Design Course (PDC). Permaculture is an ecological design system for increasing sustainability in all aspects of our lives from growing more food, restoring....
By Kathlee Freeman in Food Tank. November 29, 2013. Read the original article. Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) is a non-profit organization “dedicated to protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources in Haiti.” Co-founded in 2006 by Dr....
This year, SOIL is thrilled to have holiday gift options to suit everyone: 1. Robbie Simon Jewelry's new Diyite Collection "Diyite," the Haitian Creole word for dignity, is a new collection launched by Robbie Simon Jewelry to benefit SOIL. The Diyite collection includes both handcrafted jewelry made....
"In Haiti, there’s a worker called a bayakou. The bayakou comes in the middle of the night to clean latrines, which generally get shoveled out only once every year or so... Few people ever see a bayakou. In fact, he has a status somewhere between a magical, fairy-tale figure and an untouchable." -....
This week SOIL staff bid a fond farewell to our home of seven years in the center of Cap-Haitien - and said hello to our newly built 1800+ square foot home in the countryside outside the city! The site is conveniently located between our experimental farm and our composting waste treatment facility....
[box type="shadow"] SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti.[/box] Earlier this month, we were privileged to host Matt Cone, a teacher from Carrboro High School in North Carolina, and a small....
[box] Thermophilic co-composting of human wastes in Haiti. Preneta, N., S. Kramer, B. Magloire, J.M. Noel. 2013. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. Available at www.iwaponline.com/washdev/up/washdev2013145.htm.[/box] Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS....
By Jason Kass, Op-Ed Contributor, The New York Times. Original article. In addition to eradicating polio in India and starting the personal computer revolution, the Seattle Superman of our age has managed to make going to the bathroom a cause célèbre. Five years ago, if I’d told people I worked on....
[box]dMASS Inc, a company that tracks innovations that use fewer natural resources, has awarded SOIL's EcoSan toilet systems a place in their innovations database. The dMASS database is reserved for distinguished innovations that have been vetted through a comprehensive evaluation process. You can....
A few folks have written in to SOIL about the tragedy in the Philippines. Like you, we're saddened and horrified by the catastrophic loss of life in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Though we're on the other side of the globe, the tragedy of an epic disaster hits all too close to home here in Haiti....