When Bhavana arrived at Auroville in 1971 it was a barren wasteland and “it was not anything like a city”. She describes how they all worked together, along with the local villagers to help, to bu...

      Forests, the clouds of earth, hold up to the sky their silence, and clouds from above come down in resonant showers. “Fireflies” by Rabindranath Tagore   The...

The natural regeneration of vegetation is a dynamic process by which life recolonises land when the vegetation has been partially or totally destroyed. Life recovers the lost ground through the mec...

The initial steps to be taken for rejuvenation forest land are assessment of the existing conditions of the site, mapping of the site and identifying soil types. º    º    º    º �...

The vision behind Auroville’s afforestation efforts is to recreate the indigenous forest known as the 'Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest'.  A forest in which a large percentage of its species have medi...

Botanical Services   Botanical Services is the commercial unit of the Auroville Botanical Gardens  dedicated to bringing ecologically sustainable solutions to the commercia...

Comprising about 100 acres, which partly include poramboke or public land, Aranya was a waste land for decades. An exception was a small sacred grove dedicated to the deities Muneeswaran and Veerappan...

There is and there has been much experimentation in developing environmentally friendly building techniques, recycling wastewater, using solar power but afforestation and farming seems to be critical ...