It’s a warm, sunny day here in the SOIL Cap-Haitien office. We’re bustling with activities: building a new office, expanding our toilet service network, and of course – making compost. Since we opened our permanent compost site last year, we’ve filled 18 bins with a mix of human waste and cover....
By Kristie Wang posted on Forbes, September 18, 2013. Original post available here. There’s a growing number of social innovators who are targeting nutrition as a key lever for solving a myriad of global problems—and they’re doing far more than pushing your everyday food pyramid. They are tackling....
By John James posted on IRIN, September 17, 2013. Original post available here. STOCKHOLM, 17 September 2013 (IRIN) - The success in achieving the Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) water target and massive growth in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes have masked a little-discussed....
In October last year, SOIL and our partners at re.Source Sanitation launched a new project to build toilets throughout the Shada neighborhood of Cap-Haitien. In exchange for a small monthly user fee, SOIL regularly picks up toilet wastes and delivers them to a SOIL compost site for safe treatment....
SOIL was recently selected as a top 10 finalist in a Nature Conservancy / RARE contest recognizing promising efforts to help vulnerable communities reduce environmental risk and adapt to climate change. SOIL’s proposal to use ecological sanitation (EcoSan) technology to improve food security....
Dear Friends, September has been a month of sweltering days, cool rains, and non-stop activity at SOIL. We have been busy running mobile toilets at festivals, constructing our new office, holding workshops, and, as always, transforming poop into beautiful soil. While we usually look at our work in....
While we would love for everyone to have an EcoSan composting bin in their backyard, an easier way to break into the wonderful world of composting is to transform your kitchen food scraps into rich soil nutrients. Composting is a small thing we can all do to help mitigate the effects of climate....
** This post is a modified essay that was originally published in the online literary magazine Drunken Boat. We hope this will give our supporters insight into SOIL’s guiding principles and we thank Drunken Boat and Ashoka Changemakers for encouraging us to philosophically reflect on why we do the....
In Theo Talks Episode 19, Theo's trip to the lumber yard gets momentarily interrupted by some unexpected guests. As Theo says: "this video was going about the wood... You can see how concentrated I am making my videos". All in all, this Theo Talks provides an interesting glimpse of a cemetery....
The world of composting toilets is full of different models and technologies. At SOIL we strive to design toilet models that are desirable to the users and affordably constructed entirely from locally-available materials. Almost all SOIL toilets use urine diversion (also known as UD) funnels which....