[box]SOIL is honored to have been shortlisted for the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge Award. This prestigious award recognizes innovative ideas to provide sustainable access to safe water and sanitation. The final winners will be announced in September. [/box] Reed Elsevier Environmental....
Dear Friends, Over the years SOIL has evolved into a humanitarian organization that focuses on sustainable social business solutions. Although we’re still in the early stages of experimentation, we believe we’re on the cusp of identifying low-cost toilet models and waste treatment options that do....
Hello, dear readers! I’m Shannon, an anthropology major at Reed College and SOIL’s new Social Media and Outreach intern. I have the pleasure of residing above the SOIL office in Port-au-Prince for two months this summer and working with some pretty amazing colleagues on a daily basis. This past....
Yesterday, SOIL's Sasha Kramer presented a paper at the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) 36th WEDC International Conference entitled "Thermophilic composting of human wastes in uncertain urban environments: a case study from Haiti". Co-written by Sasha Kramer, Nick Preneta and....
SOIL is thrilled to announce that we recently had two papers published by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) that are being presented today and tomorrow at the 36th WEDC International Conference. Today, Anthony Kilbride, a former SOIL employee and current (lifelong) SOIL....
By Positive News, July 2, 2013 A project in the Caribbean country of Haiti, which continues to struggle with the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, is turning toilet waste into a valuable resource In the UK most of us flush the toilet without a second thought, but for the majority of Haitians, this....
By Kristie Wang, Christian Science Monitor, July 1, 2013 The social enterprise SOIL provides clean facilities for families in Haiti while also supplying a local source of fertilizer to sorghum farmers. SOIL is enabling communities in Haiti to transform human waste into a resource for sustainable....
Live interview with SOIL's Dr. Sasha Kramer on Greenhorn Radio. Listen to the interview Dr. Sasha Kramer is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). Sasha is an ecologist and human rights advocate who has been living and working in Haiti since 2004....
Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo visits with the SOIL cow – Uit (named after Theo H-UIT-ema) - out at the SOIL experimental garden and farm near Limonade. Join Theo as he questions the meaning of life thinly veiled as a study in....
One year ago, in June 2012, we packed up our Port-au-Prince office in Delmas 33 and moved around the corner to a beautiful building with more space for our growing team. The building itself was ideal, but our new backyard was a muddy mess full of debris and mosquito-breeding standing water. In short....