Want to reduce your impact but can't give up flying? Favor day-time flights, pack light, and fly budget. Seriously! Those discount airlines typically pack more passengers on each flight (by not wastin...

      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...

Sadhana Forest is about growing trees and growing people. Volunteers from all over the world, as well as Aurovillians, work together in this new reforestation project. They practice an eco-friendly wa...

The Auroville Herbarium is developing up a so-called special herbarium, with it's main focus on plant species that represent the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF). It also incorporate ...

Sadhana Forest was founded in 2004 to reintroduce TDEF forest and transform 70 acres of severely eroded land. Till date more than 18,200 indigenous trees have been planted with labor of love of young ...

Pitchandikulam is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest. Itwas established in 1973 as one of the pioneering Auroville green belt communities engaged in the...

The Auroville plateau in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, India was a wasteland when the community was started in 1968. Considerable effort was expended in reforesting the plateau, and over 1500 ...

Auroville as a physical being, is only about 5 kilometers in diameter. It is located in an environment of land and water and people and history. When it was started in l968, it was hardly a welcoming ...

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 Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) of India is only found on the south eastern seaboard of the peninsular. It has a very limited range, and extends only 60 km inland. The TDEF occurs in an area ...