The Auroville Earth Institute is researching, developing, promoting and transferring earth-based technologies, which are cost and energy effective. These technologies are disseminated through training...

Appropriate and sustainable development require first resources management. It is possible to use a natural resource with much respect for our Mother Earth and to develop a habitat in a harmonious and...

Stabilized Compressed Earth Blocks is a construction material formed in a mechanical press. They are made out of a mix of soil, sand and stabilizing agents like lime or cement.      

Disaster resistance of buildings is not only related to building materials and technologies but to proper design and well built structures. Earth, as a building material, can be used for creating mode...

Raw earth for building has been used worldwide for millennia but, during the 20th century, most of the skills of earth builders were lost and building with earth became marginal. The new development w...

Satprem founded the Auroville Earth Institute in 1989 and has been developing, consulting, teaching and promoting earthenbuilding technologies and earthen architecture in several countries besides ...