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DESCRIPTION:Come hear a talk about the intersection of ecology and human rights in 
 Haiti .\n\nSasha Kramer will talk about the work of Sustainable Organic 
 Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), a new Bay Area non-profit which seeks to 
 support and participate in community efforts to enhance soil fertility, 
 protect water resources, improve crop yields and create livelihood 
 opportunities in Haiti. She will specifically be discussing the ecological 
 and social aspects of a new composting toilet project that is currently 
 underway in northern Haiti.\n\nMembers of SOL in front of first public 
 composting toilet in Milot built June 2006\n\nWhat do composting toilets 
 mean for health, nutrition and the environment?\n\nApproximately 2.6 
 billion people around the world do not currently have access to sanitation 
 facilities, resulting in high incidences of waterborne disease and 
 environmental degradation.\n\nEcological sanitation is a relatively new 
 approach to this problem which promotes low cost methods for recycling 
 nutrients from human wastes for use in agriculture. This approach has been 
 widely adopted in regions of southern Africa where it has had important 
 implications for public health, nutrition, and the environment.\n\nInspired 
 by the work in Africa, this summer Sasha and SOIL will be working with a 
 group of Stanford engineers from Engineers for a Sustainable World to set 
 up several demonstration ecological sanitation sites in rural Haiti. These 
 groups will be working in collaboration with SOL (Sosyete Oganize pou 
 Lanati), a new Haitian group that will coordinate the project locally. Come 
 hear about this important work.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nSasha Kramer 
 received her PhD in 2005 from the ecology program at Stanford. For the past 
 several years she has worked in rural Haiti as a human rights observer and 
 traveled to Africa several times to learn about ecological approaches to 
 rural sanitation. She is currently working to start the non-profit SOIL 
 (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) to support research and 
 implementation of community based approaches to soil fertility (beginning 
 with ecological sanitation) in 
 Haiti.\n\nhttp://haitiaction.net/Events/6_29_6/6_29_6.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/29/18283669.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley: Ecological Sanitation in Haiti: from Human Rights to Humus
LOCATION:Ecology Center\n2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight Way, Berkeley.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/29/18283669.php
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