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Issue No: 363, October 2019

Petrichor

Morning in an Auroville forestIn an article first published on Auronet, Rishi Walker identifies the causes and possible responses to the present urgent water situation in Auroville. What follows attempts to demonstrate how the water situation we are in actually came about, and suggests a strategy that addresses the problem at its root cause. Most of what we are told by specialists is reactionary in nature, and I am sure that we can all agree that Auroville ought never to be reactive, but always at the forefront of the new and seemingly impossible. Water cannot be dissociated from the health of the land, the soils and the climate. Tackling the water issue requires more than water reservoirs; it requires changing the climate altogether. And there are not a million ways to do that.Forest: a terrestrial imperative Forests are the life-support systems for complex biological life and genetic diversity on Earth. They are the regulators of the climate, the natural design perfected over ...
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Issue No. 363, October 2019

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  • Universal Basic Income and Auroville
  • Petrichor
  • The experience of long term volunteers
  • Twice Upon a Time in Auroville
  • Climate strike and clean-up day in Auroville
  • Passing: Riju Bukov
  • Caring for the sick and elderly
  • Freestore Fashion Show
  • French Service Civique in Auroville
  • We can’t achieve human unity with segregation
  • Welcoming Volunteers: do we have the right attitude?
  • The work of Savi
  • Volunteering in Auroville
  • Finding meaningful work in Auroville

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