Sarah Brownell This is Me

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1. 1. SOIL: First dry toilet in Milot

   www.oursoil.org/firstdrytoilet - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/28/2008   Last Visited: 5/28/2008

   Sarah Brownell, an engineer and co-founder of SOIL, shared her toilet

2. 2. www.oursoil.org

   www.oursoil.org/directors.php - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/13/2007   Last Visited: 3/13/2007

   Sarah Brownell (Co-founder SOIL) is a live-in volunteer at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, a Catholic Worker House in Rochester, NY where she helps provide meals, housing, discussion groups, advocacy, and spiritual support for those in need. She received her bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her masters in environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1998 she has been working on water treatment, solar power, and ecological sanitation projects with the organization Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa in Borgne, Haiti. She helped found the Sant Teknoloji Brase Lide Brainstorming Technology Center in Borgne in 2003. She has also been an active member of the Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) group at UC Berkeley, helped start an ESW class for undergraduates, and has encouraged and supported engineering students volunteering in Haiti.

3. 3. Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group (AIDG) - AIDG Team

   www.aidg.org/team.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/29/2007   Last Visited: 11/30/2007

   Sarah Brownell, Temporary Haiti Program Manager
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   Sarah Brownell Sarah Brownell received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and her MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She recently co-founded a non-profit, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL), to promote simple environmental technologies and techniques in Northern Haiti. She has been traveling to Haiti since 1998, working on water treatment, solar power, and ecological sanitation projects with Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa. She helped found the Sant Teknoloji Brase Lide in Borgne in 2003.