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SADHANA FOREST AT AUROVILLE (TAMIL NADU)



•Sadhana forest is a reforestation project was founded in 2003 by ‘Aviram’ & ‘Yorit’.
•More than 18,200 indigenous Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest trees have so far been planted on the 70 acres of severely eroded infertile land.
•This forest type is found only in Southern India and Sri Lanka and provides a rare biological richness due to its very high species abundance. The Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest is now close to total extinction; only 0.01% survives. This is a last moment effort to keep this very rich and beautiful Forest on earth. The main action areas are planting the TDEF, water conservation, soil erosion control, and sustainable living education.
Sadhana Now
Sadhana in 2004
•In the last four years, or so, Sadhana Forest has created a natural living environment with a solar power generation and water pumping unit, composting toilets, plant based gray water treatment system, natural buildings for living quarters for volunteers and residents from all over the world, and community cooking and eating facilities.
•Living is very simple and is based on a consciousness of the connection between our environment and ourselves, a connection that determine the much of the quality of our lives.

How they Achieve.


  1. REFORESTATION
  2. WATER CONSERVATION
  3. SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE 

What they do.

  1. SADHANA CAMPUS
  2. THE COMMUNITY
  3. WORKSHOPS
  4. OPEN STAGE NIGHT
  5. GUIDELINES (Drugs, Alcohol & Tobacco Free Environment)
  6. KITCHEN
  7. GARDEN
  8. ENERGY
  9. Human Powered System
  10. Solar System
  11. TRANSPORTATION
  12. ZERO WASTE ZONE
  13. Trash, Rubbish, Waste, Garbage
  14. COMPOST ZONE (COMPOST TOILETS)
  15. DOMESTIC WATER USE

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