Haiti Rising From the Ashes by Sasha Kramer
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January 2012: We’re Growing Vegetables and Playing Soccer in Port-au-Prince Again
Dear Friends, At this moment two years ago the city of Port-au-Prince collapsed. In a matter of minutes hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives as this proud city crumbled to the ground. On this day of remembrance and mourning we ask that you take a moment of silence to honor the dead and....
Al Jazeera: The world can't afford to keep wasting soil
By Stan Cox, in Al Jazeera on January 12, 2012. One-third of Earth's soil is degraded because of unsustainable farming methods, which could lead to a major food crisis. Salina, Kansas - Late last year, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) released a hair-raising report on the....
Invitation: Come out to the Tap Tap Garden opening celebration in Cite Soleil on January 22nd!
Bochika, SAKALA-Pax Christi Ayiti, and SOIL invite you to celebrate a positive milestone of progress and possibility in Haiti: the opening of the Jaden Tap Tap (Tap Tap Garden) and a SOIL EcoSan Toilet in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince on January 22. The celebration begins at 10 am and will include a....
National Geographic Video: Putting Waste To Work
SOIL's Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, gives a talk at National Geographic on fighting Haiti's most pressing health, economic and environmental problems, one toilet at a time. This follows up a previous article in the National Geographic in October on SOIL's attempt to use human waste to....
Fairfield Citizen: Guest column / After 4 years in Haiti, a plea to help island nation by Jess Lozier
By Jess Lozier, in the Fairfield Citizen, December 20, 2011 I recently returned home to Fairfield from Haiti, capping off four years of living and working in Cap-Haitien and in Port-au-Prince. I start medical school in January, and I know it will be several years before I will be able to return to....
Support SOIL by Gifting EcoSan Calendars and Greeting Cards
The 2012 SOIL calendar follows the EcoSan cycle, featuring gorgeous photos of the elements of EcoSan - people, toilets, compost and agriculture. As in the past, we kindly ask our friends and supporters purchase a pack of ten calendars at a discounted rate of $150 for ten, and then resell or give....
San Francisco Joins the Composting Toilet Revolution!
SOIL was co-founded in 2006 in San Francisco California. We are so pleased to see that our dream has come full circle with San Francisco now considering putting in a network of public composting toilets throughout the city to help solve the sewage and water problems faced by large cities around the....
SAKALA Field trip to Compost Site
Last Sunday 12 young women from Cite Soleil visited the SOIL compost site in Pernier. The young women were from a local organization called SAKALA (supported by Pax Christi Haiti) which works on community development and conflict prevention in Cite Soleil. SOIL has been working with SAKALA for the....
Winter 2011 – Ecological Sanitation Catches on in Haiti
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