Sustainability & climate startups in Puducherry

international township (enterprise cluster)

Founded 1968, the UNESCO-endorsed international township is Puducherry's single most distinctive economic asset — home to ~230 social enterprises employing ~5,000 people from surrounding villages, producing ...

FLAG: Auroville. Permaculture / regenerative-farm project (started 2011) on ~7 acres — forest, orchard and vegetable gardens — demonstrating sustainable organic food production for the Auroville community. R...

(Auroville enterprise)

Metal-workshop / appropriate-technology unit manufacturing sustainability equipment — wind pumps, shredders and the Auram compressed stabilised earth-block (CSEB) presses used in green construction worldwide...

FLAG: Auroville. Cleantech social-enterprise (started ~2010, under Auroville Centre for Scientific Research; engineer-founder Jorge Ayarza) designing low-cost, open-source small wind turbines optimised for I...

Jesus Ciriza Larraona

Founded 1993 as an Auroville R&D unit; revived 100% natural indigo fermentation dyeing. Runs 62 x 1000L vats, one of few 'Expert Natural Dye Houses'; sells own garments/homeware and does dyeing for brands. F...

FLAG: Auroville. Non-profit social enterprise (founded Jan 2010 by Aurovillians Chandrah & Ribhu) building environmental-education curricula (e.g. 'Garbology 101') on waste, plastics and sustainable consumpt...

(WELL / Auroville project)

'Women's Empowerment through Local Livelihood' (WELL) — upcycled paper craft brand started 2005 as a post-tsunami rehabilitation response. Turns waste paper into homeware/decor with a zero-waste policy; prov...