SOIL Advisers: Supporting Capacity Development and Social Business Solutions

I am pleased to introduce you to SOIL's new team: Ekip Konseye! The word konseye in Creole means advisors, and at SOIL, the Konseye position serves a key role in monitoring and evaluation, supporting operational activities, supporting SOIL’s Program Directors, and coordinating with external research....

Read more

Compost & Climate Research Interns (Stajye Klima ak Konpòs)

Gavin, Junior, and Darline model the adapted buckets used as chamber bases for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from the compost piles. Stajye Klim ak Konpòs: Introducing SOIL’s first Climate and Compost Research Fellows! Every day, SOIL is showing that ecological sanitation (EcoSan) can provide....

Read more

Empowering women. Period.

All around the world, women and girls face a monthly reality: menstruation. Periods are often taboo, something shameful, to be hidden away and never mentioned. Certainly menstruation is often considered a women-only topic – we ask each other for help if we’re in a tight spot and have forgotten a pad....

Read more

Nature Commode: Why Ecological Sanitation Is An Important Market Development Opportunity

SOIL friend and recent visitor Tucker Cahill Chambers wrote an article for " Nature Com " in which he explores the possibility that Ecological Sanitation represents a valuable market solution for sanitation businesses worldwide. Because EcoSan solutions like SOIL's are holistic, tackling multiple....

Read more

Fòmasyon Sanitasyon Ekolojik: 9 Mas, 2017

[Click here to read this information in English.] Akòz sikonstans enprevi, SOIL te anile fòmasyon sa a. Nou pral pataje enfòmasyon depi nou fikse yon nouvo dat. Mèsi pou konpreyansyon nou. Detanzantan, SOIL oganize atelye pou pataje eksperyans ak konesans nou genyen ak teknoloji Sanitasyon Ekolojik....

Read more

SOIL Ecological Sanitation Training: March 9, 2017

[Li enfòmasyon sa a an kreyòl ayisyen.] Due to unforeseen circumstances SOIL has cancelled this training. We will share updated information when we have a date for our next training. Thank you for your understanding. SOIL conducts regular one-day workshops on SOIL’s use of ecological sanitation....

Read more

New York Times: A Tool Kit for the Donor Eager to Grasp All the Risks of Donation

Read more
EkoLakay clients

EkoLakay reaches the 1000th Toilet Milestone!

Fabienne with EkoLakay's 1000th client! The paper crowns say "EkoLakay: Sit on your throne!"[/caption] Today is a day of celebration for SOIL - we just installed our 1,000th EkoLakay household toilet! EkoLakay would not exist without our clients, who pay for the service every month and in doing so....

Read more

Breaking Down All the Costs

As SOIL works to expand and continually improve our household toilet service, EkoLakay, we are constantly evaluating and reassessing our costs. To do this successfully, we need to have a detailed breakdown of what our costs are –how much we’re spending, what we’re spending money on, and what each....

Read more

Impact Design Hub: 40 Under 40

We are incredibly proud to share that SOIL Executive Director Dr. Sasha Kramer has been named one of Impact Design Hub's 40 under 40 in recognition of her incredible contributions to the public sector. Impact Design Hub’s 40 under 40 recognizes some of the brightest young minds at work designing for....

Read more

Blog Archive