After nearly 10 months working at SOIL, I can tell you that there are many, many wonderful things about my fellow employees. They are deeply committed to advancing SOIL's mission and doing their jobs well. They see each other not just as co-workers, but as a family. So it may come as no surprise....
By Nick Preneta and Erica Lloyd The international NGO Medair works in 10 countries around the world, with projects that cover everything from bringing emergency food supplies into crisis zones, to reducing long-term disaster risk by earthquake-proofing homes and community buildings. Although Medair....
When SOIL employee Joasil “Tidou” Lucny and I sit down together once a week, he patiently teaches me Haitian Creole and I help him to improve his English. He told me that he dreams of becoming an agronomist, so I asked him if he would like to write about the topic below to share with our followers....
By Jessica Altenburger in Forbes, July 31, 2014 “The 2015 goal to halve the proportion of people living without sanitation is running 150 years behind schedule.” - WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation 2010 Since 2008, the “International Year of Sanitation,” the topic....
By Jessica Altenburger in Forbes, July 31, 2014 “The 2015 goal to halve the proportion of people living without sanitation is running 150 years behind schedule.” - WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation 2010 Since 2008, the “International Year of Sanitation,” the topic....
At SOIL we're all about the small details. By focusing first on quality, we are able to avoid the pitfalls that were all too common in the post-earthquake surge of development organizations (such as the construction of internally displaced persons camps that had inadequate and non-user-friendly....
More than 4 billion people around the world lack access to safe sanitation - about half of the world's population. So while SOIL is particularly focused on Haiti, we recognize that sanitation is global issue. Our Guide to Ecological Sanitation, first published in 2011, has been accessed by people in....
By Alexis K. Barnes in Vice June 3, 2014 Joe Jenkins has been saving his shit for 37 years. The 61-year-old thinks that to do otherwise—to flush the toilet after you’ve finished defecating into it—is a waste of perfectly good drinking water and valuable turds. Instead, you should do your business in....
I am Andrew Coco, a Sustainable Development Intern with SOIL this summer. I studied Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainability at the University of Vermont and have been friends with SOIL for the past four years. My official title is Konsiltan Agrikilti (Agricultural Consultant) and I am....
What is SOIL’s ecological footprint? We know that turning wastes into compost adds much-needed topsoil to Haiti’s eroding hillsides, and that it keeps the nutrients (not to mention the pathogens) from poop out of fresh water, but does it have ecological benefits in terms of reducing climate change....