2 results for tag: sustainable

SOIL Attends Sustainable Sanitation Consortium in Cape Town

Consortium attendees in Cape Town.  This past September, SOIL Research Associate Maya Lubeck-Schricker traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to attend a research consortium meeting for the Off Grid Cities project. She joined researchers from Cranfield University (UK), University of Leeds (UK), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru), University of the Western Cape (SA), and Meru University of Science and Technology (Kenya), as well as fellow Container-based Sanitation Alliance (CBSA) representatives from Sanima (Peru) and Sanergy (Kenya). The SOIL team is also working alongside Universite d’Etat Haiti (UEH) on this project, whose represe...

The SOIL Farm in Cap-Haitien is Operating on 100% Solar Power

Thanks to a generous donation from the Meyer and Esther B. Mazor Foundation, the SOIL farm is now full sunny-side up, operating on 100% solar power! With the help of the plentiful and dependable Haitian sun, the 9 panels (each 40W), which are installed at the SOIL demonstration farm and nursery in northern Haiti, will be strong enough to realize our dream of 24/7 power - charging 8 batteries to power everything from lighting to refrigerator. The panels are a great addition to our smaller set of solar panels that power the water pump. This system fills our tilapia ponds, hydrates our agricultural experiments, and allows our regional director and ...