Join SOIL's Regional Director, Theo Huitema, on the first (of many we hope) adventures in EcoSan. In Theo Talks Episode 1, Theo will take you on a sunrise tour of the SOIL nursery outside of Cap-Haitien. Listen closely and you might hear some tree cocks! Do you want to support this effort to improve....
Help us send SOIL’s Deputy Director to Durban, South Africa! Nick Preneta has been invited to present on SOIL’s behalf at the Faecal Sludge Management Conference later this month. This is a fantastic opportunity to continue spreading the word about SOIL’s unique and effective utilization of EcoSan....
SOIL moved into a new office in Port au Prince in July and we wanted to share some photos of our new digs. We have come full circle since the earthquake and moved back into the house where SOIL Port au Prince started, formally known to many as the coalition house. When Nick, Bobo, Paul and I came to....
Written by Rob Goodier for Engineering for Change on July 8, 2012 Sasha Kramer's enthusiasm for recycling poop is contagious. After hearing from her, it's not hard to imagine the need to give your indoor bathroom a Stone-Age rennovation. She developed EcoSan latrines that store human waste in....
This is a summary of key takeaways from the Sustainable Sanitation Conference, co-hosted by SOIL and UNICEF in June 2012. For an introduction and general overview of the conference, or to find information about other presentations, click here. [accordions] [accordion title="English" active="yes"]....
Did you miss the Sustainable Sanitation Conference? Don't worry, we'll have video footage, presentations and further information available soon. In the meantime, check out one of SOIL's tried and true educational tools: the Eleven Steps to Using a Urine Diversion Toilet. We've used the Eleven Steps....
Co-written by Anthony Kilbride and Sasha Kramer For the complete photo set check out SOIL's Flickr page Last stop on the toilet tour Nairobi, Kenya Our last stop on the toilet tour was Nairobi Kenya where we would spend 4 days visiting some well known urban sanitation projects that we have been....
This is one story from a multi-part series on SOIL's adventures in Africa. After a successful morning with the women of Dunkassa, Sasha, Bobo and I, accompanied by our ADESCA colleagues Zachary and Guninen, embarked on a road trip to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The purpose of our trip....
This is one story from a multi-part series on SOIL's adventures in Africa. Today we had one of the highlights of our professional careers, or at least it was one of my finest hours. In an attempt to demonstrate the possibility of converting human waste into compost the SOIL team, together with our....
We are REALLY excited up here at the Cap-Haitien office about our new cover material: ground peanut shells! We have been using bagasse (a byproduct of sugarcane production) for years, which has been doing the job, but perhaps not breaking down as fast as we would like. It’s important for us to have....
