5/1: Auroville EcoVillage Architect speaking (Berkeley)
Announcing a new meeting for East Bay Cohousing!
What: Auroville EcoVillage architect talk at Berkeley Cohousing
When: Thursday, May 1, 6:00 PM
Suggested donation: USD20.00 per person (with potluck)
Where: Berkeley Cohousing
Who should come: Come and meet other community-interested people and learn about an EcoVillage in India that has pioneered sustainable development, and talk about what it would take to do the same here.
Why: It's a chance to learn more about sustainable development and community.
Meeting Description: LALIT KISHOR BHATI: Auroville, a Utopia in the Making
Potluck Dinner and presentation by the urban architect and planner of the world's only international city. A pioneer in renewable energy, environmental restoration, organic farming and sustainability.
Duration: 6 to 9 PM - 3 hours
Suggested Donation: $20 with a dish to share, $40 with no dish.
Payment Instructions: Make checks payable to the charity of our speaker's choice
Lalit Kishor Bhati is an Architect-Urban Planner. He lives and works in Auroville since the 1990's and is associated with Auroville's Planning & Development process.
AUROVILLE: A UTOPIA IN THE MAKING
All the problems of the humanity are essentially the problems of harmony ? ?Sri Aurobindo?
It is about developing a new mind set towards the harmonious co-existence of all. Auroville?s quest and experiments for ?Utopia? are aimed at ?Realizing Actual Human Unity?.
Auroville is an International-Intentional Community, located in South India and due to its vision, charter and many integrated and successful experiments in all walks of life, it is considered to be a leading Ecovillage for its holistic development.
www.auroville.org
Established in 1968, near Pondicherry, Auroville today has 2,000 residents representing over 40 nationalities. It enjoys a yet unique UNESCO?s endorsement as a project of great value to Humanity.
Auroville has a pioneering status in the wide use of renewable energy, natural resource management, environmental restoration, organic farming, waste management, innovative architecture and low energy and appropriate building technologies, rural & regional integrated development initiatives and also the aspects of self governance, conflict resolution, alternative economy and education.
Co-sponsored by Friendly Favors
Learn more here:
http://intentionalcomm.meetup