Tag: Haiti

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  Breadfruit Trees are 'Trees That Feed' and Create Jobs in Jamaica

  Breadfruit trees planted by Trees That Feed Foundation are creating food systems and jobs in Jamaica.

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  "Buy One, Give One" Condoms Help Spread the Love in Haiti

  When you buy condoms in America, you could be providing protection for couples in Haiti too.

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  Wake Up With Leonardo DiCaprio’s Fair Trade Organic Coffee

  Now you can get your morning coffee fix celebrity-style, thanks to an alliance between Leonardo DiCaprio and LaColumbe coffee -- plus, all proceeds support sustainable initiatives.

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  IDS12: Patty Johnson Works with Haitian Artisans to Create Vodunuvo

  The Toronto designer has created an unprecedented collaboration, weaving together elements of craft production, community development and modern design.

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  Solar Brings Internet Connectivity to Haitian Schools

  Haitian schools connect to the internet for the first time, powered by the sun.

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  DOC2DOCK Less Hospital Waste = More Lives Saved (Video)

  U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world.

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  Grain Production Falling as Soil Erosion Continues

  The thin layer of topsoil that covers much of the earth's land surface is the foundation of civilization. As long as soil erosion on cropland does not exceed new soil formation, all is well. But once it does,

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  More on Composting Toilets and Humanure in Haiti (Video)

  Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that

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  Promoting Humanure Composting in Haiti and Why It Matters (Video)

  The shocking photo above is of gigantic piles of human feces left in the open air at a dump in Haiti. While some in the "developed world" (I always hated that term), may turn their noses up when we recommend composting toilets

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  Architecture For Humanity's Really Boring Year in Haiti

  Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

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  Deforestation & Hurricanes May Have Triggered Haiti's Catastrophic 2010 Earthquake

  Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that

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  Beyond the Gulf Oil Spill: Five Ongoing Ecological Disasters With No End In Sight

  Living some 6,000 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that the oil spill often seems like an abstraction to me. A big, big abstraction, but still.

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  Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto's Seeds and Instead Commit to Burning Them

  photo: J. Novak Food Freedom recently reported that Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, peasant farmer leader of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti "a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on

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  Bright Ideas in Earthquake-Safe, Ecofriendly Building

  Growing up in California, I was never really scared of earthquakes -- they happened frequently and most caused little, if any,

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  The (Haitian) Rum Must Go On!

  Haiti's best-known export, the century-and-a-half-old rum company Rhum Barbancourt, is back in business after grinding to a halt following the devastating earthquake that hit the island

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  After Earthquakes: Top Down Solutions or Bottom Up?

  TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says "Top down solutions will

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  Architect Wants to Rebuild Haiti with Recycled Tires, Needs Your Help (Photos)

  Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

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  Rocket Stoves Aid Relief in Haiti

  Jeff has already reported how solar panels are supporting relief efforts in Haiti, and April has covered the use of biochar stoves to help Haitians too. (Though some commenters remained unconvinced.) Now another piece