This is a land so vibrant and alive that laugher will come bursting through as imperious as the sun and the spirit will survive resilient as the soil. - Dennis Brutus 1978 ”Love; the Struggle” Dennis Brutus, a visionary poet and courageous activist, was also a founding member of the SOIL advisory....
By Melody Ng in Food Tank: The Food Think Tank Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods ' (SOIL) EcoSan toilet allows Haiti to turn its human waste disposal problem into an opportunity to address both public sanitation and hunger. In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, displaced Haitians began....
Here at SOIL we rely on numbers - we count, weigh, or track just about everything possible. And while we need all of that information to ensure smooth operations (after all, when you're handling 75,000 gallons of poop a year, you better be sure you've got enough buckets), every so often, numbers....
We're happy to announce that the 2014 SOIL calendars are here! With the help of some of our incredibly talented friends, including Jon Brack, Meagan Choi, Kate T. Williamson, and Erin Strain, we've collected a beautiful array of stories and images for this year's calendar. Our calendars are also a....
Dear SOIL friends, I've been blogging to you for a little over two months now without taking the time to properly introduce myself. My name is Erica Lloyd, and I'm the new Program Manager here in SOIL's Port-au-Prince office. I love getting to share some of the exciting things happening here at SOIL....
Dear Friends, The holiday season makes us particularly grateful for family, and that has certainly been the case with our SOIL family this month. Opportunities to support one another have abounded - from our Cap-Haitien team moving to their new office to the Port-au-Prince staff pitching in at the....
By Rob Goodier at Engineering for Change. Read the original article here. Sasha Kramer's enthusiasm for recycling poop is contagious. After hearing from her, it's not hard to imagine the need to give your indoor bathroom a Stone-Age renovation. She developed EcoSan latrines that store human waste in....
By Elisa Birnbaum for SEE Change Magazine. Read the original article here. Four years after the devastating earthquake hit the nation, killing 250,000 people, Haiti is still struggling to regain its footing. It is said that more than 300,000 Haitians remain in temporary shelter, criminal activity....
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....