A Dana, Basile (alias Tutsy Navarathna) et Claudine nous ouvrent les portes de leur studio, où ils distillent avec précision des documentaires et des courts métrages sur Auroville. Installés ici depuis dix ans, ils nous livrent leurs impressions sur les évolutions culturelles et artistiques dont ils ont été témoins. Entre Second Life, le Bhagavad-Gitâ et Rimbaud, nous découvrons avec enthousiasme le travail de recherche et d'expérimentation de ces professionels. Ils posent ainsi les premières pierres d'une scène culturelle de haut niveau à Auroville. Read more

Dr. Peter Choate of Calgary, Alberta in Canada gave a week of his time and expertise facilitating a week-long seminar to those involved in Auroville's Child Protection Services. He points out the vital importance of creating a transparent secure platform in which both the abused and the abusers will finally confront and communicate with one another, having a conversation on how they feel about these secret practices surrounded with fear.

SmallSteps is an initiative funded by Upasana design studio, against the use of plastic bags. The core philosophy at Upasana is to design for social development. Through small steps Upasana has given employment opportunity to more than 200 woman from villages in and around Auroville. These woman help in making cloth bags which are a good substitute to plastic. The USP of these bags are that they are compact and portable. By hooking them on to bags, belts, key rings, etc one is constantly reminded to say no to plastic. Read more

As part of inclusive planning and development exercise, the Green Group, the Forest Group the Farm Group and l'Avenir d'Auroville held a joint meeting to discuss issues relating to water, environment and forest and how that impacts planning and development. The meeting was hosted by Nikolai at the Youth Center. The discussion touched many topics regarding the development of the city. This meeting was first of the kind between the planners of the city and the persons taking care of most of the green. A very positive step. Read more

Today's news in English features an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Peter Choate explaining the importance of awareness of the problem of child abuse and the creation of a safe platform where conversations can be held between the children and the adults, where fear can be re placed by the sense of a safe environment in which to communicate. The interview in its entirety will be published in the next few days. Also in the news announcements for Awareness Through the Body sessions, for culinary treats available through the Youth Center and the team at Solitude Farm.

Just open your ears... For the World Listening Day Svaram invited us for a sound walk through Auroville soundscape. We started in Svaram crossing the village of Kotakarai, continue to the forest, arrive in the Matrimandir nursery and finally reached Unity Pavilion to listen to the mystique Russian bells. Listen to the recording of this walk and try to emerge yourself into the texture of sounds, feel reflection of sound to your inner landscape. The good thing is that we don't have to tell you how to listen, so enjoy !!

Come raccontare Auroville ad un gruppo di Italiani di passaggio ad Auroville? Come spiegare in un'ora la filosofia di vita che sta dietro ad ogni dettaglio della nostra citta'? Come rendere interessante la presentazione ed al tempo stesso non cadere nel paternalismo? Luigi, aurovilliano di lungo corso, prova a rinnovare l'esercizio comunicativo nell'idioma a lui piu' congegnale: l'italiano. Da oltre 20 anni impegnato a promuovere Auroville in giro per il mondo, in questa ora di conversazione Luigi concentra le conoscenze accumulate in una vita spesa ad Auroville.

On Monday 26th July 2010 in Town Hall conference hall we had a chance to hear interesting presentation about Beema bamboo as an ecological and economical source of energy by Pashi and few others. . This bamboo is a native Indian specie which has been proven to grow well under our local conditions and which possesses many assets – very good yield , it has a high biomass content, as well as a good pulp and a high calorific value (4000 K cal/kg). It therefore acts as a carbon sink as it can absorb CO2 3 to 4 times more than trees; Read more

Cette semaine nous sommes au bord de la route en compagnie d'Anandamayi, membre du service de sécurité d'Auroville. Elle est venue aujourd'hui avec d'autres membres de son équipe et quelques policiers du Tamil Nadu, pour installer un check-post comme elle dit (poste de contrôle en français), au croisement de la route de Certitude. Comment en est-on arrivé à mettre des barrières ? Est-ce qu'on est en train de barricader Auroville ? Des questions auxquelles elle nous répond avec aussi un compte-rendu de la réunion générale qui a eu lieu hier soir au sujet des récents meurtres de Kuilapalayam. Décidément à Auroville en ce moment faut pas déconner. Read more

"In those days, the surrounding villages were a sad sight. There was a group of us, we began to look at what we could do. But it wasn't until we were joind by Ambu and Morris, who told us: What you are doing is looking like charity, you can't do this for a long time. It would be more in the spirit of Auroville to do development work". Bhavana, been in Auroville since 1971 and the founder of Village Action Group, talks about the difference between the two, how the project evolved over the years – and also how she came to realize that Auroville is her true home indeed.

Ca y est ! Nous voici au cœur des vacances avec un mois de mai toujours aussi torride à Auroville. Cette année, surprise: pluies et même orages sont venus reverdir nos forets et rafraichir l'atmosphère. Une grande partie de la population est déjà partie en vacances et tout fonctionne au ralenti. Pour les enfants d'Auroville, le mois de mai c'est aussi le mois des colos avec les traditionnels « camps de Nature » dans les montagnes de Kodaikanal. Cécilia, de retour du 1er camp, partage ses impressions au micro de ces nouvelles en français. Pus de photos dans READ MORE. Read more

Jacques est un dentiste français. Jusque là rien d'extraordinaire. Jacques avant de s'installer à Auroville il y a 29 ans, avait pratiqué la dentisterie pendant 10 ans en France. Alors naturellement en arrivant c'est ce qu'il a voulu faire. Pendant plus de 20 ans Jacques a parcouru les campagnes indiennes avec sa fraise et son générateur pour soigner et éduquer les enfants à une meilleure hygiène de vie. Mais un beau jour tout s'arrêta. Jacques après 19 ans de pratique fut pris d'un mal de dos terrible. En se renseignant autour de lui, il compris qu'il n'était pas le seul dentiste à souffrir du dos. Et c'est à ce moment là que l'aventure commença pour Jacques... Read more

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On 22th of April – on Earth Day a celebration, a real birthday celebration, was held at Visitor Center. Initiator and organizer was Upasana with Small Steps project. It started by auction of bags children painted on Saturday, and the last bag was sold for recording 2300 rupees. All the money that was spend at the birthday celebration will go for the cause of spreading awareness for anti plastic campaign to pay for the films and videos which they will be played in villages in Tamil. Birthday party was swinging on to late night with grooves and rhythms of many musicians – Suryan, Mohanam Sound Crew and Pachamama.

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Chrais, a Dutch consultant with the FAMC and Farm Group in Auroville, is facilitating a two-day workshop (on 23/24 of April) called “The Whole System in the Room” on all things related to food and agricultural value chains. He estimates that Auroville's dream of agricultural self-sustainance is currently only at 10-20% of its capacity, and is working to increase that by engaging further with local farmers and addressing the serious problem of rapidly sinking ground water levels. In this interview, he talks about his future vision for a sustainable agricultural action plan in Auroville, and the spiritual motivations that drive him.

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Adhi, born in Edayanchavadi, works in the Botanical Garden, which aims to educate people about local plants and how they remain green even in the dry conditions. He has introduced the use of native species in Auroville rather than exotic plants which need lots of water and maintenance. Local children from 150 government schools in the region come to the botanical garden and are taught about the nursery and alternative energy, plant trees and are encouraged to take plants home to create gardens. There are also attempts to produce and conserve seeds of native Indian vegetables – original heritage seed independent of commercial genetically-modified seed.

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The process of renewing L’avenir d’Auroville (the Urban planning service  of Auroville) is going on since sometime. It is the occasion for Auroville residents to find a new momentum toward the construction of the City. Amongst all the actions which are being conducted for this purpose, a Study group has worked toward the necessary evolution of the structure and functioning of this service. Their proposal was presented to the Residents during this meeting to start collect feedback from them and get it ratified. Here the recording of the meeting held yesterday in Town Hall.

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During the LFA (litter-free Auroville) campaign, AurovilleRadio was invited to participate in the exhibition room called stArt of Certitude's dome. We took this opportunity to produce a sound in order toawaken people's awareness of noise pollution. The manner in which people began to listen was quite imaginative. With the participation of Newcomer Marc, organiser of the exhibition and a designer, we imagined a box where everybody could enter, listen to the sound and be totally cut off from outside, in  order to be fully focused on sounds. The result: a strange sort of soundproof cardboard box called “Sound Space”, a mysterious and darkened sound experience with a long waiting line attended mostly by kids..Read more

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On 29 January was the Litter Free Auroville Campaign a very bold and passionate venture to make a less polluted and and more environment aware Auroville. On this day more than one thousand school children and adults collected litter from the roads of Auroville brought them all to Certitude for further processing. Along with this were so many activities for making people aware of the better world on the other side of all the pollution and many more fun activities. In a conversation with Anita and Mirra two of the many active facilitators they shared their views about the campaign, and many ideas to make a cleaner Earth.

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The 29^th of January was indeed a different Friday for Auroville. It started early in the morning with meditation, and after school the children and many adult Aurovilians collected litter along the roads... which all lead to Certitude where  the main action took place throughout the day. In a conversation with Chandra, Ribhu and Mira who were three of the many active facilitators for this day's events, some interesting facts were uncovered: the target is to create a team for a platform to create a change. It is ongoing, ideas and work, to reduce waste. Each of us can participate: the way we choose to acquire our food, and how we handle our waste, becoming aware that we can't just 'throw it away' as there is no 'away.' .

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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 ladies, and now the waste... Uma has woven the thread of creativity utilizing the contents of the unit's waste barrels, the goal zero waste. Upasana's employees, men and women of the villages, have successfully produced usable, unique items of beauty entirely of plastic, paper and cloth waste, caught by Uma's clarity and confidence.

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On Saturday the 9th and Sunday the 10th of January 2010 some of the world’s leading professionals in the field of Integrated Planning and Design came in the Town Hall for a talk, which was organzied by L'Avenir d'Auroville. Mr. Aromar Revi, a leading professional, friend of Auroville and an Advisory Committee member of L’avenir d’Auroville, who is working with a team to build a base for the proposed Indian Institute of Human Settlements was accompanied by a delegation of professionals in the fields of Integrated Planning & Design, Ecological Planning, Sustainable Urban Design and Architecture... In READ MORE the other parts.

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This is a brief summary of the open presentation and discussion arranged by L’avenir on 29th January 2010 at the Town Hall. The goals of ICITI is to build a scalable ICT platform by 2012 in Auroville for+ Better connectivity at lower cost, enabling closer  collaboration and more effective governance+ Reduce carbon foot print   - Eliminate or reduce energy used for ‘need-less’ travel   - Eliminate or reduce use of paper   - Use low power/ power efficient technologies+ Reduce Electromagnetic pollution+ Usher in ‘Knowledge Society”+ Extend it to the bio-regionThe consensus at the end of the meeting was that ICITI is technically feasible and financially viable and its realization would be beneficial. For its realization, ICITI needs Government approvals, funds and Community support in the aspiration, goodwill and a helping hand, wherever possible..In READ MORE part 2 & 3.Read more

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Productions presented an epic theatrical gesture in conjunction with Litter Free Auroville last Friday at the Visitors' Centre. Johnny's began with a witty introduction of human history (which sadly managed to destroy so much of what exists.) With the substance we know as plastic, its use became misuse; Mother Nature became the target.  'Escape From Mt. Rubbish' was played with a cast of thirty children, who understand the well the context of Litter Free Auroville  and the campaign toward that end, which takes place on Friday 29. The audience had lots of laughter all the way through the play, and gave  the players a standing ovation at the end. The final message: avoid the use of plastic. .

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“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 not so good at the level of solid waste. Action is needed and this is the goal of the NGO SOMA waste management, along with Ecoservice: organizing a big campaign on the 29th of January to bring awareness and to get things change. This is no longer a surprise, this day is supposed to be big, as big as the issue. Let's hear Gilian, from Ecoservice, presents her organization and the actual situation of Auroville toward waste, then Meera and Chandrah, coordinators of SOMA, talk about the day itself.

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Tuesday 19th January at 3.00 pm in the Town Hall there was a presentation about trends and developments of population growth in Auroville. The presentation was conducted by Martin as a follow-up of the socio-economic survey conducted for L'avenir in collaboration with Harini and Vikram. Not a lot of Aurovilians attended to this presentation who make the point of the past growth and the trends for the next years and decades. Here is the recording of the event..For the second click READ MORERead more

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In the month of Pongal from the middle of December until the middle of January is a special time for celebration which is expressed on many ways. One of them is a sacred mandala of traditional blessing, named Kolam. On Saturday 9th in Ilaignarkal Education Center Mohanam Cultural Center organized Lively Kolam Festival. Beside exhibition of Kolams in different craft work of local Tamil women, there was competition in drawing Kolam with rice flour on the floor, and huge mandala, which served as the maze for meditation – first of its kind. Kolams in South India are admired for their simplicity, beauty and all that they symbolize, and they bring blessings to homes and to the universe... For more images click READ MORE.Read more

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Over four hundred children came on Sunday 27th of December to be present on inauguration of “Children s Land” at Sadhana Forest. Yes, for them it was very important day, because over 2 acres of land was given to them to work with it according to their plans and dreams. What have started as a particular project in Peru with one man who was devastated over the fact that our planet is disappearing  as a living form from our sight, in few years managed to sprout all over the planet in different forms.  Children are increasing environmental consciousness in the work with land, and at the same time gathering valuable lessons of life..

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In this short interview Raja Ram gives us an insight of his life here in Auroville. He tells us how at a young age he got interested in Auroville because he learned a lot about the Mother and Sri Aurobindo in 'Isaiambalam' school which he attended. His aim is to help people and take Auroville to the next level. He spent two and and half years helping to develop the Distribution Center (a.k.a New Pour Tous) and is now involved with the Village Action. Interesting interview for those who understand..

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Presented by l'Avenir d'Auroville: an 'Open Meeting' at Town Hall Conference Room, 10 a.m. - 12 noon Friday 4 December 2009. Topic: Regional Planning Presented by Prashant, Coordinator for Regional Planning.L'Avenir members present: Sauro, Lalit, Pino,Toby, Tine and approximately 20 Aurovilians. L'Avenir d'Auroville has expressed its willingness and thanks to make use of AurovilleRadio's offer to record and broadcast its 'Open Friday' meetings. The 10 a.m. timing of these Friday meetings does not, unfortunately, allow but a handful of participants, as that time of day finds most people at work...

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