SOIL is thrilled to announce that we recently had two papers published by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) that are being presented today and tomorrow at the 36th WEDC International Conference. Today, Anthony Kilbride, a former SOIL employee and current (lifelong) SOIL....
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....
In order to reach people who would most benefit from ecological sanitation, such as those in Cap-Haitien’s crowded slums without modern plumbing or electricity, SOIL is using innovative methods to break down cultural barriers towards ecological sanitation. SOIL has been collaborating with a small....
As frequent readers of the SOIL blog will know, our composting waste treatment site in Port-au-Prince is housed within the boundaries of the municipal dump, Trutier. The Trutier dump site has long been one of the city's most degraded and harsh environments, thereby making it an exemplary location to....
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....
We are a population of over seven billion people, living in a world with increasingly scarce resources. Looking forward, there is one resource – often overlooked – that is perpetually available: human waste. The moniker 'waste' is indicative of general global perceptions: feces are to be discarded....
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....
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....
"It's a modern-day alchemy that is, on a small scale at least, helping Haitians turn something deadly into something valuable. 'If we can take all the poop that's making people sick right now," said Dr Sasha Kramer as she stuck a thermometer into a large mound of faecal waste in the middle of....
Written March 11, 2013 by Annie Reece for Resource Magazine A non-profit organisation dedicated to ‘protecting soil resources, empowering communities and transforming wastes into resources’ in Haiti is fighting a cholera epidemic in the Caribbean country by recycling human waste. Cholera – a....
