The Eco Film on Friday, January 15th: FLOW: For the Love of Water Festival Award Winner at the Vail Film Festival and Grand Jury Prize Nominee at the Sundance Film Festival Genre: Documentary. Director: Irena Salina. USA, 2008. 93 minutes. Irena Salina’s award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of…
Last Thursday night, we celebrated the change from 2009 to 2010 Sadhana Forest style! Our long term volunteer Maja, organized a forest theater that celebrated the creative energy of our community. Within the forest theater many different actors created a welcoming environment that was themed towards cleansing and renewal. Following the evening forest walk, there…
Children’s Land Last Sunday, December 27, we inaugurated Sadhana Forest Children’s Land! This new project is led by Ana and Tiago with the help of Maja, Reza, Niki, David, Aviram and Yorit. The day’s program was packed with a permaculture course for children, a deep ecology session, joyful non-competitive games, music and singing, a special…
Written by Mike Roy Dirt and bunds, acacias and bananas, humanure piles and compost pits. Solar panels and 4.7 acres of thatch huts. Not a single ham, Santa, or snowflake in sight. Not exactly the Christmas landscape that many Sadhana volunteers are used to. Nonetheless, with “a little bit of sense, little of discipline” (as Hugo sings in what has…
Wednesday night in Sadhana is now home to an open-stage show. This is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to share their creativity with the community. The various performances during open stage include, singing, dancing, acting, reciting poetry, hula-hooping, comedy, and many others creative performances. Our new comers Ana and Tiago have brought music…
The Eco Film on Friday, January 8th: Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home Won a special mention award at the CINEMAMBIENTE Italian Enviro Fest Genre: Documentary. Director: Andrew Nisker. USA, 2008. 77 minutes. Leading up to the Litter Free Auroville‘s massive cleanup on January 29th we will show two films concerning Waste Management issues. Garbage! The…
Last Friday, December 18, we celebrated Sadhana Forest’s 6th Birthday. It was a very special Friday night with over 215 friends, guests and volunteers joining us for the festivities! During the celebration, Aviram and Yorit honored the hard work of Balu, Swami, Arumugam, and Mani who have been and continue to be integral to the…
The Eco Film on Friday, January 1st: Food, Inc. Won 3 Awards for Best Documentary Genre: Documentary. Director: Robert Kenner. USA, 2009. 94 minutes In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the American food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the consumer with the consent of the government’s regulatory…
During the past month and a half, our Forest team has been working through the winter monsoon, which arrived late and brought very strong rains. The downpour provided our Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest trees with much needed water. While work continued through the clouds and rain, the monsoon energy changed much of our day to…
The Eco Film on Friday, December 25th: Examined Life Genre: Documentary. Director: Astra Taylor. Canada, 2008. 87 minutes Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through…
