Auroville is an experimental city, under development in south India. It is intended to be a model township - an international and universal place for personal, spiritual growth and social advancement.
Auroville exists for nothing less than to hasten the evolution of the human species - to develop the mind from its animal instincts to sublime intuition, and to manifest the inspiration of the Divine in the material world. (more…)
India is a land of contradictions.
Walking through a back alley in Delhi, on one side the wall is decorated with tiles bearing images of Gods, Goddesses and Deities. Turn my head the other way and I see children sorting through waste and shovelling it with their hands onto an enormous pile of rubbish.
This vast country, famous for its rich spiritual heritage, with its huge population, has an enormous waste problem.
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After 15 years of the humble magazine for “spirituality and social change”, New Renaissance has launched a blog site: www.newren.org
New Renaissance takes a look at the world around us and imagines a future based on spiritual ethics and ecological practices. Writers and reviewers are encouraged to get involved.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was drawn up by 1,300 researchers from 95 nations over a period of four years. It is reported here:
Independent News 30/03/05
The state of the world? It is on the brink of disaster
An authoritative study of the biological relationships vital to maintaining life has found disturbing evidence of man-made degradation. Steve Connor reports
Planet Earth stands on the cusp of disaster and people should no longer take it for granted that their children and grandchildren will survive in the environmentally degraded world of the 21st century. This is not the doom-laden talk of green activists but the considered opinion of 1,300 leading scientists from 95 countries who will
today publish a detailed assessment of the state of the world at the start of the new millennium.
The report does not make jolly reading. The academics found that two-thirds of the delicately-balanced ecosystems they
studied have suffered badly at the hands of man over the past 50 years.