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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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 […]
In this film, narrated by David Attenborough, we take a look at deserts, which cover a third of the Earth’s land surface. From space they appear lifeless but a closer look reveals a different picture. Deserts, in fact, are surprisingly teeming with life! 2017 / 49 minutes / Alastair Fothergill
An incredible documentary following the vegan runner and ultra athlete, Fiona Oakes. Despite being told she might never walk again as a child, Fiona went on to smash multiple world records, including the fastest women to run a marathon on every continent. 2018 / 1 hr 14 mins / Keegan Kuhn
In this week’s documentary: More people around the world are fleeing from climate change than from war. If human-induced climate change continues at the current rate, the World Bank warns that by 2050 there could be as many as 180 million climate refugees. 2020 / 54 minutes / DW
Will the cities of the future be climate neutral? Might they also be able to actively filter carbon dioxide out of the air? Futurologist Vincente Guallarte thinks so. In fact, he says, our cities will soon be able to absorb CO2, just like trees do. Our future cities will be all about redefining a new […]