This November a small team from SOIL traveled to the 2013 International Permaculture Congress taking place in Cuba to take a Permaculture Design Course (PDC). Permaculture is an ecological design system for increasing sustainability in all aspects of our lives from growing more food, restoring....
"In Haiti, there’s a worker called a bayakou. The bayakou comes in the middle of the night to clean latrines, which generally get shoveled out only once every year or so... Few people ever see a bayakou. In fact, he has a status somewhere between a magical, fairy-tale figure and an untouchable." -....
This week SOIL staff bid a fond farewell to our home of seven years in the center of Cap-Haitien - and said hello to our newly built 1800+ square foot home in the countryside outside the city! The site is conveniently located between our experimental farm and our composting waste treatment facility....
[box type="shadow"] SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti.[/box] Earlier this month, we were privileged to host Matt Cone, a teacher from Carrboro High School in North Carolina, and a small....
A few folks have written in to SOIL about the tragedy in the Philippines. Like you, we're saddened and horrified by the catastrophic loss of life in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Though we're on the other side of the globe, the tragedy of an epic disaster hits all too close to home here in Haiti....
That couldn't be more true here at SOIL, where we see "waste" as a resource that's just waiting to be set free! While this is perhaps most evident in our use of ecological sanitation (EcoSan), which transforms poop into agricultural-grade compost, it's actually just one of many ways SOIL gets value....
By Mark Tercek, President & CEO, The Nature Conservancy. Original article. Global conservation challenges are very complex. Take your pick: climate change, deforestation, water security, overfishing--the list of problems goes on. That's why it's important to step back and consider the people working....
October 15 th was Global Handwashing Day, an international day of hygiene promotion to motivate and mobilize people to wash their hands with soap. SOIL celebrated by expanding a good idea into two-weeks of festivities in northern Haiti. Our campaign was dedicated to raising awareness of handwashing....
Last month, we shared with you that SOIL had been named a top 10 finalist in a Nature Conservancy / RARE contest recognizing promising efforts to help vulnerable communities reduce environmental risk and adapt to climate change. SOIL's application focused on changes in the frequency and strength of....
SOIL Letters is a blog series featuring some of the beautiful letters we've received over the years in support of the work we're doing in Haiti. October 21, 2013 I came across your organization today by an endorsement on LinkedIn by a group called the “Dalai Lama Fellows." I watched a video about....
