This June, SOIL staff will be collaborating with the people at Sadhana Forest in Anse-à-Pitres, Haiti to offer a Permaculture Design Certificate Course in Haitian Creole. SOIL's new Sustainability and Capacity Development Consultant, Jean Arnaud, will be leading the two week course that will cover a....
In order to reach people who would most benefit from ecological sanitation, such as those in Cap-Haitien’s crowded slums without modern plumbing or electricity, SOIL is using innovative methods to break down cultural barriers towards ecological sanitation. SOIL has been collaborating with a small....
As frequent readers of the SOIL blog will know, our composting waste treatment site in Port-au-Prince is housed within the boundaries of the municipal dump, Trutier. The Trutier dump site has long been one of the city's most degraded and harsh environments, thereby making it an exemplary location to....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo shows how SOIL's new vacuformer tool enables the SOIL team to make low-cost urine diversion (UD) seats. Now every part of SOIL's EcoSan toilets are made or purchased locally. Learn more about the....
We are a population of over seven billion people, living in a world with increasingly scarce resources. Looking forward, there is one resource – often overlooked – that is perpetually available: human waste. The moniker 'waste' is indicative of general global perceptions: feces are to be discarded....
By Katherine Rowland for Green Futures. See the original article on Huff Post UK here. [box] In Haiti, centuries of poor land management and poverty have steadily impinged on the country's ability to feed itself: between 1979 and 2001, per capita cereals production fell by 34%, and between 1998 and....
Dear friends, All of our long time supporters are by now familiar with the community of Shada in Cap-Haitien, where SOIL has been working since 2006. This is the home of the magnificent and charismatic Madame Bwa and the thousands of residents that inspire us with their courage and resilience. That....
SOIL kindly asks for your support to provide emergency relief to the community of Shada, Cap-Haitien where spring rains have brought devastating floods. We don't currently have the discretionary funds in our budget to meet the critical needs of this community, and we ask you to please consider....
Heavy rains last Saturday flooded much of the city of Cap-Haitien, leaving people wading in water and debris up to their waists. The water was unusually slow to drain as the ocean inlet was partially blocked by construction for a new bridge. Brown opaque water filled the alleyways and houses....
Given that we're currently producing nearly two tons of compost on a weekly basis, we're keenly interested in compost research. For the most part we encounter lots of encouraging reports about how compost improves crop yield or improves the viability of reforestation efforts. But today we came....