Stories

pointReturn – a quick history | Areas earmarked for Agriculture | The story so far and the road ahead | Why do I trust and admire Anna Hazare? | Pongamia: a mid-course check | A cottage for residents | The Grand Spirits of India | Out of ’10 and into ’11 | What moves pointReturn | Siddarth | India’s Mark II Pump | Beginning to grow | Inside pointReturn | The Humanure Handbook | Raised bed vegetable growing | Ecosan toilets | Evolution of sanitation at pointReturn | Karpagam and Sriram | Hosted cows | Falling in love with swales | A primer on swales | A Banana Circle | Visitors from Sadhana Forest | A Pongamia trove | Vegetables and seasons | Water woes, Oct. 09 | The gentle bikie Ringo, aka Paul Kean | Consecration | Yanmar VIO20 , a mini excavator | Google Earth image of pointReturn in 2009 | The new pavilion at pointReturn | Solar driven scooter | Status report: June, 2009 | A rocket stove in terracota | Adventures with the Rocket Stove | Trees at pointReturn | Permaculture : an interlude | Exploring cob | Large water storage – a solution | Off grid power | Vetiver : an interlude | A spell of inaction | Was it the week that oil peaked? | A planting plan | State of the rains, 2007 | Rock harvest | Gandhigram : An interlude | A pond is born | Building with local materials | One year on | Water on high | Planning a pond | Long time at base camp | Water realities | A windpump arrives at pointReturn | The land as it was: 2006 | The road runs its course | Aaraasur: an interlude | Forming a road | India, browning | We made a picnic of it, though | The fence grows a little | Status report: March,2007 | Water ahoy! | A hiatus | A way west | Consulting a traditional builder | Vetiver – how to plant it | Divining for water | Two-pit composting latrines are best for tropics | Status report: Oct. 2006 | Nature as a capitalist | Biofuel concerns | Virtues of vetiver | Using an A-Frame to trace contours | The arcana of buying land | Prayer and worship | Open Source Offices | On first seeing Vellimalai | The hunt for an earth canvas | What is pointReturn? |

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