Right above the Solar Kitchen,the most popular lunching venue for Aurovillians, sits La Terrace, a café quite able to compete. This edition of Towards Sustainability with Marc from La Terrace looks a...

Last Wednesday, 22nd of April a "Conversation Cafe" on Holistic Food Systems took place at La Terrace. There were not as many participants as had been hoped for, but still a very interesting conversat...

Sustainable Forestry is a holistic, intergenerational approach to managing the world’s largest natural vegetation type. In a sustainbale approch to forestry the use of the natural forest and local w...

Through ecology, science has embarked on a quest for the great systems of order that underlie the complex flow of life on our planet.  This quest has taken us far beyond the realm of traditional scie...

Deep Ecology states that in order to be increasingly in line with it’s principles, human beings need to progressively develop ecological wisdom. Deep ecology seeks to develop this by focusing on dee...

WELL (Women’s Empowerment through Local Livelihoods) aims to create alternative livelihoods for women from the villages around Auroville by training them in leadership skills and the production of p...

The DEWATS (decentralized waste water treatment system) can be seen in use in several places around Auroville. The vortex system is useful in more compact areas that do not have sufficient space for a...

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...

Raw earth as a building material is nearly as old as mankind itself.  It saw it’s renaissance in the middle of the last century. CSEB has been a major tool for the renaissance of earth architecture...

Constructing with arches, vaults and domes are ancient building techniques. Those techniques have been applied by many civilizations on this planet and resulted in some of the most spectacular archite...