“From Human Rights to Humus”

Date of Event: February 25, 2013

Posted: February 14, 2013

GRANVILLE, Ohio—Sasha Kamer of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) will present a lecture, titled “From Human Rights to Humus: Transformation of Wastes to Resources in Haiti,” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, in the University Room of Slayter Hall (200 Ridge Road). This Global Studies Seminar event also is sponsored by the Burton D. Morgan Liberal Arts and Entrepreneurship Program and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Fadhel Kaboub at 740-587-6315 or visit www.denison.edu.

Haiti was once known as the Pearl of the Antilles and produced nearly two-thirds of Europe’s tropical produce, but today it is the most impoverished country in the western hemisphere, battling the largest cholera epidemic in recent global history. This lecture examines some of the factors that have contributed to environmental destruction in Haiti as well as opportunities for hope.

Kramer is the co-founder and executive director of SOIL, a nonprofit organization that has been working on transforming wastes into resources in Haiti since 2006. SOIL uses ecological principles to address the basic human rights issues of sanitation, food and access to a healthy environment in some of Haiti’s most vulnerable urban communities. Through a technology called ecological sanitation, SOIL transforms human wastes into fertile soil that can be used for agriculture, reforestation and restoration of fragile ecosystems.

Kramer’s talk will begin with an overview of current conditions in Haiti and SOIL’s philosophy and work and conclude with a discussion about the role of academia in creating social and environmental change. For more information on SOIL, visit their website at www.soil.org.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville—Lecture: “From Human Rights to Humus: Transformation of Wastes to Resources in Haiti” by Sasha Kramer at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, in the University Room of Slayter Hall (200 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Fadhel Kaboub at 740-587-6315 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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