Al Jazeera: The world can't afford to keep wasting soil

By Stan Cox, in Al Jazeera on January 12, 2012. One-third of Earth's soil is degraded because of unsustainable farming methods, which could lead to a major food crisis. Salina, Kansas - Late last year, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the....

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Invitation: Come out to the Tap Tap Garden opening celebration in Cite Soleil on January 22nd!

Bochika, SAKALA-Pax Christi Ayiti, and SOIL invite you to celebrate a positive milestone of progress and possibility in Haiti: the opening of the Jaden Tap Tap (Tap Tap Garden) and a SOIL EcoSan Toilet in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince on January 22. The celebration begins at 10 am and will include a....

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National Geographic Video: Putting Waste To Work

SOIL's Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, gives a talk at National Geographic on fighting Haiti's most pressing health, economic and environmental problems, one toilet at a time. This follows up a previous article in the National Geographic in October on SOIL's attempt to use human waste to....

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Fairfield Citizen: Guest column / After 4 years in Haiti, a plea to help island nation by Jess Lozier

By Jess Lozier, in the Fairfield Citizen, December 20, 2011 I recently returned home to Fairfield from Haiti, capping off four years of living and working in Cap-Haitien and in Port-au-Prince. I start medical school in January, and I know it will be several years before I will be able to return to....

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Support SOIL by Gifting EcoSan Calendars and Greeting Cards

The 2012 SOIL calendar follows the EcoSan cycle, featuring gorgeous photos of the elements of EcoSan - people, toilets, compost and agriculture. As in the past, we kindly ask our friends and supporters purchase a pack of ten calendars at a discounted rate of $150 for ten, and then resell or give....

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San Francisco Joins the Composting Toilet Revolution!

SOIL was co-founded in 2006 in San Francisco California. We are so pleased to see that our dream has come full circle with San Francisco now considering putting in a network of public composting toilets throughout the city to help solve the sewage and water problems faced by large cities around the....

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SAKALA Field trip to Compost Site

Last Sunday 12 young women from Cite Soleil visited the SOIL compost site in Pernier. The young women were from a local organization called SAKALA (supported by Pax Christi Haiti) which works on community development and conflict prevention in Cite Soleil. SOIL has been working with SAKALA for the....

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Winter 2011 – Ecological Sanitation Catches on in Haiti

Fill out the email submit box to the right to get future editions straight into your inbox and then check out all the latest happenings here: Ecological Sanitation Catches on in Haiti, Winter 2011.

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Household Sanitation Survey Almost Complete

In one of the urban neighborhoods hardest hit by cholera, Shada, Cap-Haitien, SOIL community workers have been going door-to-door to find out why. Over the past four weeks, SOIL has spoken with the residents of over 2,500 households about their access to sanitation and their family's hygiene....

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SOIL's 2012 Calendar Available Soon!

SOIL's 2012 calendar is at the printer! It was designed by the amazing Mimi Jorling, a friend and volunteer of SOIL, who lives in New York City but also volunteers for a local organization in Cabaret, just outside Port-au-Prince. The 2012 calendar follows the EcoSan cycle, featuring gorgeous photos....

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