We all live in, what is called in German the Sachzwang. The dictionary translates it as Inherent necessity. I, personally prefer to call it the dictate of a situation. A situation which determines our actions. If one is not rich, one has to work. And even the rich person is not free from the Sachzwang, the wealth must be managed and increased. It was always like that, we were limited because of technologies not yet invented. Humans once...

Many people grow more and more dissatisfied with the modern life style. In addition there is also the danger that the climate will change and there are many more disquieting problems which plague the world. Not all of those people, but quite a lot of them are looking for an alternative life style and establish so called Ecovillages. Are the Ecovillages the answer to the ecological problem? Do they show us practical solutions how to save...

I am the last person to disapprove of spirituality. Although I am also very acerbic in my behavior with the spiritual people, I recognize the need of people to ask questions about life and why and for what? From where do we come and where do we go? The difference to religious people is, that religion is better much better organized. With spirituality one builds his own religion in a Do It Yourself way, without the whole bureaucracy and...

It is save to assume, that many people all over the world are willing, some of them are even eager, to do something for society or would like to fight a possible Climate Change.  For such endeavors money is needed. And to get it is very difficult, no one gives money away easily. But there is another way, Self-Organization! The idea of a Loan Guaranty Fund (LGF)  presents itself. In our, Nesseq’s case an LGF would guaranty loans for...

This post is written less then 3 month before the new year. I write it now, because I am furious in anticipation of what we will get to hear in the media and from our leaders at the first change of the decades in the 21. century. From the media we will get the dry facts. We will hear, that the year 2010 was the hottest summer in the last decades. Yet another hottest summer preceded by other hottest summers as in 2003, 2006 . The last...

With this post we want to close the trilogy about Capitalism and Sustainability. In the first post Capitalism and Climate Change the topic was, that capitalism remained after the terrible battles with communism, which has vanished. Hopefully for good. In the second part named Capitalism in Transition we came to the conclusion, that also capitalism has come to a turning point. The next step ahead, and there seems to be no disagreement,...