Appropriate technology & environment resources

Environmental education and regeneration

• The Auroville 'Green Practices' website on Restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest
• Development of Nadukuppam High School, Tamil Nadu, into a model environmental education school
  Environmental education, by Bhavana Dee - an Auroville 'Green Practices' webpage
• Paper on the Restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest of Peninsular India by Paul Blanchflower
• Paper on the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest of Tamil Nadu by Gemma Hunneyball
• This link will take you to a further environmental education initiative, which grew out of the TDEF project, the botanical gardens educational resource centre
• Other information on the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests (TDEF) - an Auroville 'Green Practices' webpage 
• Post-Tsunami 2004 coastal Eco-restoration - an Auroville 'Green Practices' webpage

Appropriate technology

• Akvopedia - an open water and sanitation source that anyone can edit
• The Auroville 'Green Practices' webpage on Apropriate building technologies
• The Auroville 'Green Practices' webspage on Sustainable water management
• The Auroville 'Green Practices' webpage on Renewable energy
• The Auroville 'Green Practices' webpage on Waste management
• The Auroville Building Centre of the Centre for Scientific Research
• The Auroville Earth Institute
• The Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA)
• The Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination Society (CDD)
• Development Alternatives, Delhi
• Aureka windmills and earthblock presses, etc
• The Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), New Delhi
• Sulabh international - an organisation promoting the safe disposal of human waste via a range of innovative solutions
• Akvopedia on Twin-pit pour-flush toilets
• The manufacturing and specifications of prefabricated ferrocement roof channels by Tency Baetens
• A wealth of information on natural decentralised waste water systems (DEWATS)
• An article on the Schauberger Vortex system from 'Auroville Today'
• The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) - now the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).  GTZ have published a wealth of information on biogas, including a paper on biogas programme implementation and cost and benefits.