In January 2012, SOIL partnered with Trees, Water & People, Positive Legacy, and Jam Cruise passengers to plant thousands of fruit trees in northern Haiti using SOIL's EcoSan compost (human manure, aka "humanure"). These citrus trees have matured and are now being planted. But, local community....
Last Thursday SOIL was proud to host our first ecological sanitation training of the fall at our beautiful Port-au-Prince office. The majority of participants were Haitian but several other countries were represented including France, Ireland and Burkina Faso. The event was attended by 16 budding....
The rain started on the evening of November 8 and fell for 2 days straight. A combination of deforested hillsides and inadequate drainage meant that the city of Cap Haitien was flooding within hours. SOIL’s office in the center of downtown was surrounded by canals of dirty water, over 3 feet deep in....
Today was a sunny day in Port-au-Prince and the SOIL office there celebrated the arrival of new office chickens, but the rains kept pouring down in northern Haiti and Cap-Haitien's streets are flooding. Due to poor internet connection it took us most of the day to get these photos and videos....
Today the Port-au-Prince office is all aflutter as we welcome the newest members of our team: the chickens! Our three new friends are named Sgt. Pepper, Soli, and Cora, and they will live in our beautiful backyard. The chickens will feast on black soldier fly larvae, harvested with our new BioPod....
Written by our friends at re.source – a start-up team based out of Stanford University, funded by a Grand Challenges Explorations Phase 1 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The re.source team is partnering with SOIL to help design an improved household EcoSan toilet and a social....
This past week we received a donation check in the mail from Ride for World Health (R4WH) to support public sanitation programs in Haiti. R4WH is a committed group of public health advocates who traveled from San Diego to Washington, D.C. by bike to raise awareness and funds for fighting global....
Join SOIL's Regional Director, Theo Huitema, on another adventure in EcoSan. In Theo Talks Episode 3, you'll see SOIL's Job Etienne, Nick Preneta and Sasha Kramer attempting to "sex" fish. In the background you'll see Theo's house, made out of a former compost bin, at the SOIL farm and tree nursery....
Here in Port-au-Prince the sun is shining and the temperature is a balmy 86°F, but for many of our friends in the United States and throughout the world, winter is fast approaching! No matter where you are, the holiday season is on its way, and that means that SOIL calendars are here again! One of....
For those familiar with SOIL, the Household Toilet Project probably doesn't sound all that new. For years we’ve dreamed about a social business model for providing household sanitation in Haiti, and today we are happy to report that our dream has started to become a reality! On October 30, 2012....