{"id":938,"date":"2017-01-25T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studentoftheworld.de\/?p=938"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:04:07","slug":"ecological-dimensions-of-tomorrows-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studentoftheworld.de\/index.php\/ecological-dimensions-of-tomorrows-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecological Dimensions of Tomorrow\u2019s World"},"content":{"rendered":"

We challenged conventional ecologic assumptions in the Ecology week of my 5-week Ecovillage Design Education Course (EDE) in Auroville, India. I became aware of the fact that we need to change the narrative of nature to a public responsibility, something like a community project on a global scale. The closed loops that nature presents should serve us as an example when it comes to waste management and the choices of material we use in the first place. Nature knows no waste. Humans invented plastic, created giant infrastructures for waste and water management and thereby deprives soil of the organic material it needs to strive.<\/p>\n

Among the many things we discussed were sustainable energy solutions in Auroville and beyond, possibilities of constructing houses with natural materials like soil or bamboo and the community or volunteer involvement of reforestation projects.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been on the road for most of the week in Auroville and the surrounding bioregion in Tamil Nadu Province. In Auroville we visited the farm Auro Orchard that recently made the shift from industrial to organic farming, the volunteer-based reforestation project Sadhana Forest (which I volunteered at in Kenya), Solitude Farm which focuses on local permaculture gardens and foods as well as Sacret Groves and the Earth Institute which both experiment with alternative ways of constructing buildings and many more.<\/p>\n

Half a day we spent on a beautiful and clean beach. As we are getting to know each other better in the group, some tricky situations and conflicts occurred. The weekly council in which everyone can share what is keeping one occupied helps glue the group together after certain issues.<\/p>\n

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