By Nick Kennedy of SciDev.Net. Read the original article here. Bill and Melinda Gates’s competition to produce a high-tech toilet for the developing world has been questioned by toilet experts. An environmental engineer and an NGO worker have criticised the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for....
Transformation Since SOIL's inception in 2006, transformation has always been one of our core values - transformation of wastes into resources, of disempowered people into community leaders, of barren landscapes into lush, productive gardens. Our Composting Waste Treatment Facility at Trutier, on....
SOIL's work in Haiti was recently recognized by The Nature Conservancy / Rare Conservation Solution Search which highlighted the innovative ways people around the world are adapting to the impacts of climate change. At a beautiful ceremony in Washington, D.C., SOIL Agronomist Jean-Marie Noel....
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....