The following guest post is by Tucker Cahill Chambers, who took the above photo of SOIL's waste treatment site in northern Haiti, where Tucker spent time with SOIL last week. Here is what Tucker has to say about the experience: I first encountered ecological sanitation in a little town in the south....
Glory in the shade of beautiful trees and lush greenery! Wander over to check out the “Red Zone!” (but don’t wander into the “Red Zone” because you’ll have to disinfect the soles of your shoes afterwards). Behold the the wonder and mystery of the “Natural Water Purification Act!” And don’t forget to....
As we shared a few months ago, SOIL friends and supporters Drew and Scott Gurian have spent the past twelve weeks accomplishing an impressive and unique feat: driving 11,000 miles through 19 countries in a tiny car. They were participating in an annual event called the Mongol Rally, and at SOIL we....
En Haïti, nous avons eu notre première station d'épuration des eaux noires dans la capitale en 2010, et depuis, elle n'est toujours pas fonctionnelle. De plus, ce système ne permet pas d'assurer le traitement de toutes les eaux noires produites à Port-au-Prince, sans parler du cas des autres villes....
When is a five gallon bucket of poop more than just a five gallon bucket of poop? In this episode, Shawn Shafner (The Puru) s(h)its down with Sasha Kramer, co-founder and Executive Director of SOIL, and engineer/academic Kory Russel of re.source. Their Container Based Sanitation model is creating....
Jusqu’à présent, la production de vétiver, très traditionnelle en Haïti, s’est faite naturellement et sans apport d’intrant externe ou fertilisant. Pourquoi ne pas nourrir et restructurer les sols où il est cultivé pour voir si la production d’huile essentielle de vétiver y gagne en volume et en....
St. Barnabas Agricultural College (CASB) is an institution with a vision to provide sustainable agricultural services to Haiti’s Northern region, and the school is using both SOIL’s EkoMobil mobile toilets and compost, Konpòs Lakay, to help achieve that goal! The two-year agriculture technician....
Sanitation Director Emmanuel Antoine talks about SOIL's work to address agriculture and sanitation issues in Haiti[/caption] May Day, or Agriculture and Labor Day here in Haiti, is celebrated as a national public holiday. One may wonder about the state of agricultural production here in Haiti after....
One of the vetiver experimental plots in Port-au-Prince[/caption] We love looking at the effect of compost on agricultural production, and we love it when other organizations take an interest too! This time we have teamed up with Caribbean Flavors and Fragrances S.A. (CFF), a Haitian company in Port....
As the population of urban slums around the world expands, so does the risk of public health catastrophes associated with poor sanitation. Learn more about the role container-based sanitation (CBS) can play in areas without conventional household toilets or sewage systems at a webinar organized by....
