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...

Lourdes and Jo from Pitchandikulam Forest are introducing the Nadukupam Environmental Education Centre at the Auroville Green Practices Seminar 2010. They are working with a rural Government High Sc...

The Auroville Waste Management Strategy has been compiled to provide Auroville with a comprehensive plan for the management of solid waste over the next four year period. To achieve this an exami...

“Something is coming”, “litter free Auroville”: these slogans, everyone has catch them on the huge banners present around Auroville. Well, time to break the mystery has come: Auroville does ve...

Uma's enthusiasm for the work she does is contagious. Her eye ranges far afield; she speaks about Kapas and the cotton farmers and the plight of the weavers, she continues Tsunamika with the fisher la...

“Village Action Group” is taking care of more than 50 villages around Auroville. This organization, which combines Aurovilians and salaried employees, tries to help villagers (especially women and...

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...

Tsunamika is a little doll handmade by the fisherwomen in coastal villages next to Auroville, Tamil Nadu, after the Tsunami. It is made out of industrial waste (fabric). Started as Trauma counseling t...

Small Steps is an initiative promoting a responsible alternative to throw away plastic shopping bags. India generates 5600 tons of plastic waste daily, with a Small Steps bag, we no longer have to cho...