content (Education) During the last years Dr. Lucas Dengel with the EcoPro team had been working on training people and promoting the use of Effective Microorganism solutions (EM) for the improving of farming sector, waste water treatment, solid waste management and hygiene.
Last week a especial workshop open for participants from all around India and the world was developed at the C.S.R. building in Auroville.
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 (Environment) Puducherry Municipal Services Private Limiteds Chief Operating officer Lt. Col. C. P. Prem Vas and Public Relations officer Mr. Sridhar made a presentation at Town Hall about waste management. At the southern border of Auroville, a huge dump site effects the life of the residents of Auroville and nearby villages. The open field dump pollutes the air, due to the low grade combustion of the waste. This dangerous practice produces many air Pollutants such as dioxin, a chemical product extremely dangerous to humans and animals. Download the pdfRead more
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 (News) On 23rd November 2011 BSNL inaugurated a Wi-Max tower at the old Tindivanam road near the Hanuman statue. Auroville is within the coverage area of this tower. Recently, an expert committee of the Government of India has recommended that radiation from cell towers be declared as a pollution. Wi-Max is a new communication technology similar to cellular communications and the new tower adds to the pollution in Auroville. This is a cause for serious concern as it threatens the bio diversity created by planting of million trees over four decades.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 (Education) Very much interesting and unknown to most of us is the world of probiotics Margarita presented in her talk on "Sustainable Cities with Natural Probiotics at the Red Cross Society Training Institute at the Auroville International meeting in Addis Abbaba in Ethiopia this year. The concept that our planet with its nature is capable of healing and cleaning itself, if we give it enough time resonated in our ears, but since time short for us, the role of the natural probiotics can be of a huge importance. Drinking water, safe waste disposal.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2011 (Education) In the continuation of opening ceremony on first day of the Auroville International Conference at the Red Cross Society Training Institution facilitate by versatile Mr. Haimanot Alemu Deepti talked on Auroville and Human Unity as A living expression of Sri Aurobindo's evolutionary vision. Joss has continued with his presentation with tittle On Auroville and the Environment in which we saw an over view of Auroville development trough years. trough his talk he also presented hsi and his team huge work on the project of Adyar Poonga in Chennai.
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Monday, 21 November 2011 (Spirituality) World Poetry Movement organized for 24th of September World Poetry Reading day, and 283 poetry reading in 80 countries occured that day. Unity Pavilion with the Tamil Heritage Centre with Anandi was the host of one in Auroville, starting by reading of Savitri in many languages. B while reciting his poem Today also wanted to join this event with The Moving Planet event, which is trying to reverse global warming, and was organized for the same day. And as the need for the kind of global solidarity, the need for ecological push is here.
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Sunday, 25 September 2011 (Environment) Peter Head, Director of Arup and Executive Chairman of Ecological Sequestration Trust, United Kingdom, sheds light on Regenerative Urban Development based on his personal journey. Peter has been to 29 countries analayzing and discussing the issues of achieving more sustainable ways of living . A Civil Engineer by profession, he discussed ways to take some of Auroville's experience and sharing it with the rest of the world and across India besides policies and investments needed in India in fashioning townships to improve quality of life.
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Friday, 09 September 2011 (News) The feature today is about Aurovilians working to change the landscape: an effort to protect health by ensuring proper waste management at the Karu-vadi-kuppam dump. Technology as a way to highlight the connections between the Western humanistic tradition with that of Sri Aurobindo will take place at Savitri Bhavan during its Fall Semester presented by Daniel Goldsmith. Reminder: mark your diary for World Bamboo Day18 September which culminate with a week-long festival.
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Monday, 29 August 2011 (Environment) We are more or less aware - depends on the level of health problem we got due to the location, that Karuvadikuppam dump site affect Auroville and the nearby villages. Pondicherry Municipality use this landfill to dump unsegregated urban waste, where methane formed by anaerobic decomposition of organic matter bursts into spontaneous combustion and sets aflame the inorganic waste. When plastic is melted down, its chemical structure changes and carcinogenic gases are released. What can we do to stop the Municipality to stop burning the waste?
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Sunday, 14 August 2011 (News) Hi everybody! This is a special edition of Kidz News straight from Auroville...Huoolow now straight form the sky it the weather. First off the bear are back to Auroville...wait wait...since when are the bears in Auroville??? its because of global warming they are coming from Alaska, and anyways its going to snow in Auroville some day...
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Friday, 24 June 2011 (City Life) From Austria comes Karl-Heinz, a working expert on mobility management. While in Auroville, Karl-Heinz made studies of the plans of this city-in-the-becoming in order to determine the needs of the residents, from young children though the elderly. Aware of the predicted 50,000 population, he points out that since people do not suddenly change their habits, it's necessary to change current trends, which is where mobility management comes into the picture. Traffic includes vehicles of every type as well as pedestrians. Therefore Karl-Heinz talks about streets in addition to roads, streets and speed breakers and all that offers a sense of safety, security, to those who venture out and about.
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 (News) Today's news is multi-featured, presenting announcements starting with Johnny, who puts together a parade for Earth day from the Youth Centre to the Visitors' Centre, inviting anybody interested in joining, either walking or with a float, which could be anything from a bullock cart to a wheel barrow and all themes fine, from clowns to clerics. And a call for teachers: Future School is looking for an English teacher with a strong academic background in English and/or a passion for an in-depth study in English language and literature.Refer to 'Dispelling Myths,' a program on AurovilleRadio concerning the meeting which was held last Saturday at Visitors' Centre called due to the incidents taking place on Auroville's roads.
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Monday, 04 April 2011 (Spirituality) "The water of Fukoshima Nuclear Plant, we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you." was heard today all over the globe. Masaru Emoto, Messenger of Water during over twenty years research of hado measuring and water crystal photographic technology have been witnessing that water can turn positive when it receives pure vibration of human prayer no matter how far away it is. Some joined this collective prayer with all sincerity, open heart and love at Quiet Healing Center at noon.
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Thursday, 31 March 2011 (Environment) Amongst other talks at Mutation II was also Joss presentation of enormous project in Chennai on the banks of Adyar Poonga. Huge work of Joss and many Aurovilians there for last four years was completed just a month ago. It is tremendous transformation of something that used to be a sewer back to river, by sunlit paths next to it. With their work they didn't only expressed lots of creativity but it was also a journey in relation to water which we insulted and degraded that we got sewers instead of rivers. And as Joss mentioned they couldn't have done it if Auroville with what is stands for, wouldn't be behind it... if there wouldn't be an experience of transformation in reality.
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Monday, 07 March 2011 (Environment) Long time Aurovillian, William "B” Sullivan works to aid Auroville in its sustainability goal to reduce its waste to zero through his project, Zero Waste. In this interview, B explains what it means to produce "zero waste” and the project's different initiatives. He gives advice for reducing waste at home and explains why it is important for Auroville to have zero waste. B also answers how waste became a problem in Auroville and the challenges Zero Waste faces today. Read more Monday, 07 March 2011 (Environment) Lively Up Your Earth, eco - music festival, the first of its kind, last weekend in January at Solitude Farm, once again brought lots of people together. Krishna, the founder of the Solitude, and member of the band, Emergence, told us the feedback was warm. Everybody enjoy the diversity of the music and workshops and the many different offered products...all liked the multi-faceted note of the festival, which really joined ecology awareness, art and music with common thread. This way the festival was more than a social gathering - it was really a celebration of all the ideas, and people who resonate with them.
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Monday, 07 February 2011 (Education) Leto 2010 je prineslo obilico tako dobrih kot slabih dogodkov, vsem pa je bila skupna intenzivnost dogajanja, v sorazmerno kratkem casu. Obisk generalne direktrorice UNESCA Irine Bokove je bil uvod v leto, in ostanek leta ni bil nic kaj manj pomemben. Mutacija kot proces je bila rdeca nit skozi dogodke, in kot zakljucek je bila serija odlicnih predavanj George Van Vrekhema v pozni jeseni. Obcutek mutacije, kot procesa, nas je verjetno vse "zavzela”, ne kot posameznike, pac pa kot kolektivno clovestvo. Spremembe, ki se dogajajo niso v krogu uveljavljenega reda stvari ali bitij. Uveljavljen red se sam po sebi razkraja. In drugost bitij je pricela zavzemati njegovo mesto. Read more Tuesday, 11 January 2011 (Environment) It should start with each one of us to try to work on and to solve the problem of ecological imbalance, which can drive us to catastrophe. Geshe Pema Dorjee finally came to Auroville, and blessed us with his talk on the Buddhist view on the environment. His lecture was interesting, witty, and right to the point on the source of ecological problems that we're facing right now. It's desire and greed; he sees this as the main factor and source of ecological problems which started so long ago, and have now overgrown to the proportion that extinction faces the human race, including all living species. Perhaps the solution is simply to become content with what we have, vs. greediness....
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Monday, 10 January 2011 (News) Today's news features an excerpt from Geshe Pema Dorjee's talk which he gave last Saturday at the Tibetan Pavilion. His observations are from the point of view of Buddhism, yet are they not in agreement with and an echo of what our higher nature whispers to us, amid the ongoing ramblings of our ego: more more, more? He pointed out that desire and greed are the basis of over-consumption, which is the root cause of our ecological crisis. Also in the news are postings of the art exhibits running concurrently.
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Monday, 10 January 2011 (Environment) One of the speakers at the Green Practices Workshop, Lucas Dengel’s presentation was on Solid Waste Management. The presentation was structured into various sections dealing with the present scenario, how we discard waste, public health and hygiene, moral issues related to waste management, technical issues, and more. He spoke passionately about the dangerous consequences we face due to our disregard to indiscriminate dumping of waste. Lucas explained the pros and cons of many latest waste management technologies. His final message was to practice recycling as, “we are all recycled”. Download presentation Saturday, 11 December 2010 (City Life) In the series of seminars about sustainability presented by Living Routes and Auroville Green Center on 11th of November Ing-Marie and B were talking about waste. Lots have been done in last few years and awareness of ecology is rising, so in Auroville 65% of waste is pick up by Eco Service. But Eco Service itself is still facing many challenges – from inadequate infrastructure, insufficient funding, lack of strategy to work as a unit, and receive some funds from the city. Right now the most important, and urgent need is land because there's no adequate landfill for the waste that it cannot be recycle or burn, and need to be land filled. Monday, 22 November 2010 (Environment) The interesting presentation by the PondyCAN team given at Quiet on Tuesday second of Noveber 2010 with the analysis of the root causes of the problem on this Puducherry -Tamil Nadu coastline didn't bring any solutions, but surely gave a hope that this problem might be solved. It appears, though, that the implementation step by step of the required measures isn't likely to happen as soon as it could unless it is specifically asked for not only by PondyCAN but also by Auroville in a more massive way than has been done until now.Read more Thursday, 18 November 2010 (Environment) Toby a hydrologist and Aurovilian speaks about the state of water management in and around the bio-region of Auroville. His presentation includes a warning about Auroville's potential future of overtaxed aquifers, poorly constructed failing infrastructure, and lowering water tables. Toby also speaks about solutions such as making community water use public information to encourage conservation, investing in alternative water infrastructure including rainwater catchment and desalination plants, and implementing a water distribution system where people would pay the real cost of clean water now to raise the necessary funds to maintain Auroville's water autonomy in the future.
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 (News) Today's news features Andi interviewing B on the multifaceted topic of waste.
Formerly un-recylable waste was dumped into a landfill, now no longer an option as that land is no longer part of Auroville. B addresses the current question surrounding throwing something away: just exactly where is 'away?' Part of the answer, as always, concerns the raising of our consciousness around what we think we need thereby generating waste.
Monday, 08 November 2010 (News) Today, and this weekend the city is full of talks, theater plays, concert, workshops...Today we can start with Sustainability Seminar at Last School Campus where Kathy and Bhavana will be talking about Social Sutainability – Auroville and the Villages or we can listen to an interesting presentation at Town Hall by Patrice Meyniel about Vanilla – a fascinating productive orchid. At Udavi school tomorrow morning at 10.30 AV theater group with Udavi School children will give a play “Savitri – a soul for any age”, directed by Jill. In the evening at Visitor Center Genius Incorporated Presents OUT OF STATION. And for the music lovers- on Sunday 17th of October at Bharat Nivas Auditorium Convergence Concert Indian Classical and Candaian Jazz musisicans. Thursday, 14 October 2010 (News) Tuesday, 5th of October and with Andrea Paige we talked about colon hydrotherapy, which is she offering at Quiet Healing Center. Our life style, eating and thinking habits affect our bodies deeper than we are aware off, and the overflow of toxins in our body can cause dis – eases, and that therapy allows our cells to successfully detoxify themselves, following in the body's natural cleansing process. In news we are also announcing movies for today and tomorrow, and a note from Unity Transport Service about the passes for the new tollgate coming up between Kootroad and Jimper.
Tuesday, 05 October 2010 (News) Thursday, 30th of September, and beside that Expression Festival definitely is starting today couple of volunteers interrupted theater rehearsal and we feature a small excerpt of it in the news. The play, we believe titled Noah's Ark will be shown at Visitor Centre on Saturday. Today at 5.30 pm at Town Hall we can listen to the last part of Georges Van Vrekhem talks about Sri Aurobindo's Thought, and at University of Human Unity at Unity Pavilion at 5pm Rod Hemsell will be lecturing on The Philosophy of Evolution through a compact survey of the philosophies of Henry Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Jean Gebser and Sri Aurobindo.
Thursday, 30 September 2010 (News) Today's news, broadcasted by AurovilleRadio returning volunteer Andréa, features an overview of “Khandar – The Ruins” a movie playing at 7:30pm in the Sri Aurobindo Auditorium at Bharat Nivas tonight. The highlight of the news program today is an interview with Ethan from Living Routes, talking about a program happening tomorrow, all day in Town Hall. From 9:30am the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium, created by the Pachamam Alliance, will be held, and it is open to Aurovilians and Guests alike. Listen in for more details on this life-changing event. Also in the news is an announcement of a program with Georges Van Vrekhem in Town Hall Sunday September 26th at 10:30am. Friday, 24 September 2010 (Environment) 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;
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 (Environment) “I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings. To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae... I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.” Dr. Masaru Emoto's prayer was recited on Friday at noon on Repos beach by few at the occasion of the event Hands Across the Sand. The oil spill on 20th of April in the gulf of Mexico which was resulted from the explosion and sinking of and oil rig caused immediate damages, and because the leaking is still not stopped we are facing the ecological disaster beyond our comprehension.
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