Thursday, November 24, 2011

EES 360 Blog: Water Issues in India

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            India experiences a wide range of water issues, each of which are unique to the region and communities being studied.   Estuarie...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

EES 360 Blog: Sustainability at Auroville

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           Auroville is an experimental city founded in February of 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, known in Auroville as the “Mother.”  Alfassa was...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Diwali, Trichy, and Tanjore

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Last Wednesday was Diwali, the festival of lights, which is kind of like New Years, Christmas, and Thanksgiving combined.  The fireworks sta...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

So I fell in a rice paddy...

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...more on that later. On Friday we took a day trip to Kanchipuram, which is a few hours away from MCC.  Our first stop was at a sari shop...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Pondicherry

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On Thursday we left for a weekend trip to Pondicherry.  The first stop was at DakshinaChitra, a living museum of the culture and architectur...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"Even the weeds are pretty!"

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The title is courtesy of Tori.  :) Yesterday after class we visited an orphanage where the children are raised in a family setting.  They a...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

12 people. 1 rickshaw. no big deal.

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This morning was our first day of lecture.  That was cool.  After lunch we sat around for a long time and talked about how we needed to exch...