Theo Talks Episode 16: Heaps, Heaps, and Heaps of Children

Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema as he shares a laugh with the "heaps and heaps and heaps" of children in Shada (where SOIL has been working for many years to expand access to ecological sanitation). In this short adventure a kid hops a ride in a suitcase careening through Cap....

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Theo Talks Episode 15: Theo Gets a Lesson in How to Play Marbles

Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure. In this short video, Theo attempts to learn how to play marbles from the children of Shada (where SOIL has been working for many years to expand access to ecological sanitation). By the end, it's still not clear whether....

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Episode 14: Mango Gnoshing Cow

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....

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Theo Talks Episode 13: Smoking The Bees

Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo visits with the SOIL beekeepers as they begin the harrowing task of transferring the bees from the log that they arrived in to their freshly made hive boxes. Here's a quote from the video to give....

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Theo Talks Episode 12: Making UD Toilet Seats

Join SOIL’s charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time Theo shows how SOIL's new vacuformer tool enables the SOIL team to make low-cost urine diversion (UD) seats. Now every part of SOIL's EcoSan toilets are made or purchased locally. Learn more about the....

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Theo Talks Episode 11: Preparing the Peanuts

Join SOIL's charismatic Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This time, Theo takes you to the local peanut factory, where some SOIL staff members are preparing peanut shells to be crushed into po pistache, the favored cover material used in Cap-Haitien. Before the shells....

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Theo Talks Episode 10: The Bobcat in Action

More adventures in EcoSan this week with Regional Director Theo and the rest of the SOIL Cap-Haitien team. The 'Bobbycat' is already hard at work after making the journey up from Port-au-Prince in the back of the Baskil ( check out the last episode of Theo Talks for the full scoop). Come along as....

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Theo Talks Episode 9: Loading Bunnies and Bobcats

Lots of adventures in EcoSan this week with your favorite SOIL Regional Director Theo Huitema. Theo was on the move, traveling from Cap-Haitien to Port-au-Prince so that he could pick up a newly acquired Bobcat skid-steer loader for the SOIL Farm in Limonade. The first video is a hilarious chronicle....

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Theo Talks Episode 8: A Morning on the Farm

Join SOIL Regional Director Theo Huitema on another adventure in EcoSan. This week, wake up on the Farm with Theo, SOIL Executive Director Sasha Kramer, Deputy Director Nick Preneta, and longtime friend Eric Nyman. Theo greets his three visitors with a sunny disposition in the early morning hours on....

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Theo Talks Episode 7: Theo Talks Return!

After a little winter hibernation, the Theo Talks series is back in full swing, and we have a couple of different offerings for you this week. As you may have read, the SOIL Farm in Cap-Haitien is now operating on 100% solar power, a very exciting improvement to our operations in Limonade. Join SOIL....

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