SOIL Wins Land for Life Award for Composting Toilet Aid Work in Haiti

In June of this year, SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) won the new UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) ‘Land for Life Award‘ and received $40,000 to support their excellent practical educational work in biologically based sanitation — aka: composting toilets.

Watch the video to hear our good friend John D. Liu of the EEMP tell us all about it.

I’m sure you will all want to join me in congratulating the SOIL team for this fantastic achievement, and in thanking them for their life- and ecology-enhancing efforts. These simple permaculture solutions cost far less and are far more effective than the industrialised world’s high cost approaches (high cost in both economic and ecological terms) and bring important net benefits in soil rehabilitation, phosphorus and other nutrient cycling and food security.

Update: See longer, updated video here.

Further Reading:

• Humanure Handbook – Free Download
• When “Eww” Turns to “Ooh!”
• Life at Zaytuna: Closing the Loop
• Phosphorus Matters
• Phosphorus Matters II – Keeping Phosphorus on Farms