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The True Pilgrims
More than 1200 people from Kerala have joined the Art of Living Pampa River Cleaning Project. In February 2014, an elephant was found dead in the Periyar Tiger Reserve. The post-mortem revealed huge piles of waste — including polythene bags, aluminum foil ...
Community Intervention for Environment Sustainability
Chemical-free Farming What did we do? The Art of Living, through the Sri Sri Institute of Agricultural Sciences & Technology trust (SSIAST), has taken up the program of agricultural development that will be economic, sustainable, and eco-friendly The ...
Earth Life
Life can only come out of life and only life can sustain life. Our environment is our first sheath, followed by physical body, mind, intuitive sheath or subtle environment and the Self.. We have to cater to all the five sheaths. The Earth changes constant ...
The Art of Living Goshala- Preserving Indigenous Cows
More about Goshala Activities in the Goshala 5 memorable months in the Goshala Goshala: A Valuable Shelter ‘Go’ (pronounced ‘gau’) means cow, and ‘shala’ means shelter. Until recent times every village in India had a goshala. Even today every villager who ...
Permaculture farming transforms degraded 7-acre land in Bangalore
Anything in excess is not good, not even farming. It has been observed that prolonged farming does more bad to the soil than good. Here’s how. Of the five factors needed for farming – air, water, soil, sunlight and nutrients in the soil – a farmer is heav ...
A life-changing decision for this farmer
A much-hyped issue in India is revolving around food – the modifications in it, the injecting of plants, the organic and the chemically-grown. The perplexing debate around food requires a better understanding of the food we consume and feed our families. ...
Farmers switch to older farming methods, a win-win for all
They are poor- an unfortunate outcome of adopting chemical usage in farming practices. Yet, they went back to their roots and adopted older methods of farmings- with surprising results. “I don't have easy availability of water and I am not financiall ...
Natural farming: A way back home for farmers
This year, under the roof of a small hut in a remote village in Maharashtra, there were big smiles on the faces of little children. After a long time, their father had bought them new clothes on Diwali. A farmer by profession, the father was pleased with ...
For a Drop of Life
The soap makes her vision blurry as she flows down a hollow rusty pipe collecting particles contradicting her purity and making her heavy. She feels the texture of millions like her, gushing through the coarse metal and out into a deep dark pit. A hoard o ...
1500 kgs of Garbage Disappear
“Ancient cultures all over the world have exhibited a deep reverence for Nature. For them, God was not in temples or churches, but was inherent in Nature. It's only when we start moving away from Nature that we start polluting Nature. Today there is ...
