Satprem Maini from the Auroville Earth Institute introduces the participants of the Green Practices Seminar 2010 into the fascinating world of Earthen Architecture and shows example of its application...

With a background in carpentry and now architecture, Regina built her own house using mostly sustainable products like mud, coconut fiber, red earth, stone, and bamboo. Are you worried about earthquak...

When two research centers with extensive knowledge do things together new concepts arises. The  Auroville Bamboo Research Center and the Auroville Earth Institute joined hands to experiment with hous...

Ayyappan, who has worked at the Auroville Earth Institute since 1989 discusses the ways to achieve sustainable building with regards to costs. He talks about the ways in which he has managed to keep t...

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...

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...

Ecological construction is a way of building that reduces resource consumption and the impact on ecological systems, and creates products and environments that are beneficial to human health and longe...

To create a sustainable Human Settlement means not only to build and design green but to create communities that provide the environment that allows people to flourish in the presence of each other. ...

Passive solar systems use architectural elements in buildings to take advantage of natural cycles of sunlight and other elements in order to reduce the costs of building heating and cooling, without u...