As the sun is at its brightest best the Sadhana family is experiencing the quiet and warmth of the low season. With less than 50 people residing in Sadhana the community feels more quiet and compact, little unusual for those that experienced the high season with a group of over 160 people and the activity […]
CONTINUE READING →By Jon, Laura and Joachim on the melody of “Banana Boat Song” from Harry Belafonte The Sadhana Boat Song Work all day on a drop of love Daylight come and me wanna plant trees Sweat like a pig and elbow grease Daylight come and me wanna plant trees Hey you kitchen team Cook me something […]
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CONTINUE READING →By Nico The Ecodome is a structure built to use as a place for meditation and silence, set in the midst of Sadhana’s forest, next to the back mud pool. The past weeks we have been working on removing the old plaster, and since one month we are giving the dome a new cover. This […]
CONTINUE READING →Yeah ! The new huts are now happy homes ! Construction of individual huts for long term volunteers has been happening over the past few weeks. With the help of Manu, our good friend and architect, and a hard working team of Tamil builders, five huts are now fully complete. These huts are being built […]
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CONTINUE READING →By Nico The ECO dome is an earthen dome that will be used as a place for silent contemplation and meditation. The dome is located next to the back mud pool, in the midst of Sadhana’s forest. It was built in 2009, with plastic bags filled with earth and lime in the method of CalEarth.org (organisation […]
CONTINUE READING →2nd April 2010 By Liz This was an exciting week for the Green Kindergarten project, as the children are beginning to recognize us and feel more comfortable playing and interacting with us. Also, as the project is growing the team is expanding and on Monday we brought the volunteers from Children’s Land along with us! […]
CONTINUE READING →26th March 2010 by Becky This week the Kindergarten project has pushed on with preparing the fence for the children’s garden. We loaded up a tractor trailer with solid granite posts, tools, 8 fence panels, 10 volunteers and headed off to the Kindergarten! Progress was fast, and after using a crow-bar and scooping out the […]
CONTINUE READING →19th March 2010, By Helen An exciting new development for Sadhana Forest in the past few weeks has been the Green Kindergarten Project. Always keen to develop and improve relations with local villages we have begun to work with a local kindergarten in Trichitambalam, Koot Road. A group of Israeli volunteers called Adam LeAdam noticed […]
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As the ice ebbs and flows at the two poles with the change of seasons, killer whales team up on a hunt and a polar bear is forced to travel a great distance in search of food. Also, beluga whales and narwhals feast on Arctic cod. This documentary is narrated by David Attenborough. 2017 / […]
The Veganuary Documentary! Founders Matthew Glover and Jane Land look back over 10 years of Veganuary, with team members and celebrity ambassadors including Evanna Lynch, Kellie Bright, Chris Packham, Peter Egan, Benjamin Zephaniah and Jasmine Harman shining a light on how it has become the cultural phenomenon it is today. Discover how the seed of […]
Once upon a time in Spiti 24 mins / 2023 / Robin Singh This short documentary film is about the journey of Peepal Farm, an animal rescue and awareness organization, in Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, and their experience of bringing social change. In the harsh winters of Spiti Valley, dogs eat dogs due to lack […]
Is a whole food plant-based diet the answer to chronic / modern disease? Find out in this informative short documentary, which features a number of doctors discussing the benefits of vegan dieting, including Dr Kim Williams (immediate past president of the US College of Cardiology) among others. 39 mins / 2017 / Plant Based News
A ton of broken mobile phones, computers or other electronic waste contains sixty times the amount of gold a ton of gold ore has. Moreover, it is easier to get at. It is estimated that 30 to 40 percent of total world demand for rare metals can be covered by urban mining and this is […]