** This post is a direct transcript of SOIL Executive Director, Sasha Kramer's, talk at World Water Week Stockholm on September 3, 2013 during a session called " Learning from WASH System Failures: Resilient Risk Reduction". My name is Sasha Kramer and I am an ecologist who has been living and....
This past Thursday, SOIL hosted an educational training session with the American Red Cross (ARC) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to use SOIL’s experiences in ecological sanitation as a model for how to think about development work in an environmental context. The day-long workshop was attended by 36....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure. In Theo Talks Episode 18, Theo provides humorous commentary while we watch "the man with the basket" fish in our fish ponds that are made from repurposed concrete compost bins! These were SOIL's very first bins, but had to....
August 20, 2013, New York City - The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is proud to announce the Semi-Finalists for the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. "We received a record number of entries this year, making it more difficult than any year from the past six years, to narrow down the pool to....
By Vic Hinterlang Theo Huitema, SOIL’s Cap-Haitien Regional Director, met me at the airport. After coffee and a bite to eat at the office, located downtown not far from the waterfront, I went out with Monika Roy, a Program Coordinator whose specialties are environmental economics and sustainable....
By the International Political Forum, August 20, 2013. Original post available here. The earthquake of 2010 devastated Haiti – since then it has perpetually struggled to re-build itself and for those that have chosen to keep an eye on this impoverished Island we have seen few success stories....
SOIL is an organization founded in Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti that works with ecological sanitation (EcoSan) and agriculture. SOIL started out doing great work with EcoSan in Cap-Haitien by constructing toilets for people to use that are different from toilets they may have used before. SOIL’s....
As most of our supporters are aware, despite the fact that more than 3.5 years have passed since the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, for the hundreds of thousands of people still living in tents the emergency is far from over. Even as many people have moved out of the larger camps and into permanent....
We are excited to announce that SOIL is a finalist Ashoka’s Nutrients for All Competition! Participating in this competition has been such a pleasure for us because the goals of the Nutrients for All movement so closely align with our own philosophy. Nutrients for All and Ashoka Changemakers are....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure. In Theo Talks Episode 17, Theo stops to consider whether the SOIL cat, named Chicken Flavor, is alive and well. By the end of the video we've had ample time to admire "complete relaxation", but we still don't know how the....