Effective micro-organisms (EM) technology is a liquid mix of microbes developed in Japan, which promotes vigorous plant growth, producing better agricultural crops. It can also be used to manage organ...

Sustainable water resource management  is one of the basis of a sustainable community. Tency, from CSR - Center Scientific Research – give details about the programs Auroville is developing based o...

How to deal with water in a sustainable way? Where to get it? Which is he better way to use it in the city and in the farms? What to do with the waste water? How it can be use? This are one of the q...

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 vortex is a water treatment system in development at the Auroville Centre for Scientific Research (CSR) that was created by Lars Kostedde. Kostedde’s vortex system is based on the ideas of Vikto...

Natural treatment of waste water occurs by channeling the effluent through several devices: Pre-treatment is done in a settler, first treatment takes place in a baffled tank, second treatment takes p...

An eco-city in the making has to look at and integrate a number of key aspects of a sustainable development. Such key aspects are: environmental restoration, organic agriculture, solar passive archite...

Water management is one of Auroville’s expertise, a substantial body of knowledge is available and has been implemented through various projects. Areas of implementation are rain water harvesting...

Tency came from Belgium and has been living in Auroville since mid-70s. He was involved in the aforestation and renewable energy projects in the early years and later co-founded the Auroville Ce...

Centre for Scientific Research (CSR) was founded in 1984 with the aim to explore and develop sustainable technologies. CSR main work areas include renewable energy systems, appropriate architecture...