Welcome!

AVIDF is an ad-hoc working group formed at Auroville in November 2003. Our intention is to support the development of an integral approach to ecological and cultural sustainability at Auroville, while hopefully also being useful to other like-minded people and organizations.

Though open to the public, this site is focused on the members of AVIDF and their invited colleagues and friends. Our approach is to share our personal knowlege of best sustainability practices in all relevant areas, and to discuss them in an atmosphere of mutual collaboration and respect.

To link to our homepage via the web, please bookmark this url:
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/AVIDF .

Click on the "Links" button in the frame to the left to view the weblinks (over 1500 so far) we've added to date. We encourage you to suggest additional links by emailing them to me (address below).

Please feel free to invite anyone else you think would benefit from and be inspired to contribute to this site.

Finally, I'd like to acknowledge Dhanya Pater, a long-time member of Auroville and resident of the Verite community, for his support in creating this site. Among his many other contributions, Dhanya came up with the name of the site and the idea to organize its weblinks into seven chakra-like categories. - Thanks Dhanya!

For Dhanya's comments, see:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AVIDF/links/0_About_the_schema_u_001071012079/

Namaste,

~ ron

Ron Anastasia
Site Coordinator
(rjon11@mac.com)