By Jeremy Keehn in The Walrus, May 2014 Magazine. We hear within us the perpetual call: There is the problem. Seek its solution. —David Hilbert, presenting his twenty-three grand challenges to the International Congress of Mathematicians, Paris, 1900 ONE EVENING last November, I went to an upscale....
Over the past few months, loyal readers of the SOIL blog may have noticed several posts about SOIL's growing partnership with the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, first approached SOIL last summer to design and lead a series of trainings....
Dear friends, Welcome to the long-awaited springtime! There are a lot of exciting things happening at SOIL this spring and we hope you take a few minutes to check out the most recent highlights below. ' Also, a huge thank you to everyone who contributed during the first two days of our Spring....
We are pleased to announce that our Cap-Haitien Agricultural Director, Romel Toussaint, has been awarded a scholarship to the Ecology Action six month internship! In this program, participants get involved in hands-on research in sustainable agriculture and closed-system food production using GROW....
[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] Spring break of my junior year came faster than expected, luckily for me the trip that would soon change my life was upon me. The....
Theo, the director of the SOIL office in Cap-Hatien, asked me to define the word "community." This question caught me off guard... To me, a community is a group of people and their relationships with themselves, each other, and the land that they share. The history of the community is embedded....
Today’s work was to visit the SOIL composting site at the city dump in Twitye to learn about the specifics of the humanure handling and thermophilic composting practices. The SOIL Twitye compost facility is located at the city dump. The company who run the dump lost its contract about 4 month ago....
By Sasha Kramer, SOIL for the World Economic Forum Blog. Gone are the days of sanitation languishing in the shadows while other basic human needs take the spotlight. In the past decade, the topic of sanitation has emerged from backroom discussions among engineers at water conferences to a high-level....
Our Collaboration in Haiti OAEC was invited to visit to Haiti by SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods – www.oursoil.org) as an organizational exchange to help each other further current projects. SOIL’s formal mission is “SOIL promotes dignity, health, and sustainable livelihoods through....
We met our translator today, Jean Arnaud. He is Haitian and has lived in the US off and on since he was 10 years old. He studied permaculture at UMASS and was part of the 2012 student team awarded the Champions of Change Challenge, part of President Obama’s Winning the Future initiative. Jean is a....