Deep adaptation in Auroville: suggestions for practical action

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Deep  adaptation  in Auroville: suggestions for practical action

Water

1. Address Auroville’s denial and inaction on the water crisis

2. Dig ponds – revive traditional storage and distribution

3. Measure and reduce consumption in your community and workplace

4. Develop the ‘Water Commons’ – linking and distribution of water sources

5. Widespread recycling and reuse of (treated) grey water

6. Participative visioning and resilient water master-plan for Auroville

Food

1. Address Auroville’s inaction in creating a resilient food supply for Auroville

2. Radically increase organic, local, seasonal and rain-fed crops

3. Take action in your home and community, ask the difficult questions

4. Invest in smarter irrigation to minimise water and energy consumption

5. Reconnect to the land and food – volunteer on a farm even once a week

6. Participative visioning and resilient food system for Auroville

Energy

1. Address Auroville’s inaction on creating a resilient energy supply

2. Replace hydrocarbon sources in a strategy of reducing carbon footprint by 10% pa

3. Take action in your home and community, ask the difficult questions

4. Prepare for grid collapse, install “microgrids” with local generation and storage

5. Participative visioning and resilient energy system for Auroville

Economy

1. Address denial on the vulnerabilities of the Auroville and wider economic systems

2. Re-design away from tourism and accumulation and towards a fair share of limited resources

3. Strengthen internal systems of exchange and focus on essential needs incl. infrastructure

4. Evaluate your resources and plan for difficult times, at home and with all neighbours

5. Innovate and financially invest in resilient social/economic projects 

6. Participative economic vision addressing likely systemic failures – water, food, social fabric.