The world witnesses a social unrest. People around the globe are getting frustrated with the economical and social status quo. As a matter of fact, this unrest started first in the USA with the Tea Party Movement (1), which started in 2009 and is mostly affiliated with the Republican Party. Although, from afar, it seems, that their only objective is to make president Obama a one-term president, it also shows a certain frustration with the...

Ecology or Sustainability. What is the difference? In the last decades of the 20.century Ecology (1) was the buzzword in the public debate about the deplorable state of nature and the bleak outlook into the future. More and more people started to understand that the environmental decline is leading to a big problem. The nuclear threat, a conflict between the East and the West, with all the fall out, did nothing to pacify the people. And...

On the 12. june 2011, our avid reader Christina Carabini raised a important question (1). “Many people in the media and elsewhere use the terms climate change and global warming interchangeably as if they were the same thing” I spontaneously answered her and explained in one short sentence, how I understand the difference between Global Warming and Climate Change. Climate Change is the result of Global Warming. The question...

Just like in real life, things are coming an going in waves. The water builds up and at the highest point it breaks and declines. This is true for most situations in life. And this wave is also to be seen in history. Mighty empires have emerged and have vanished, and their Monetary System (1) collapsed as well. Not necessarily the economy, only the money (tary) system. In North-America, the immigrants issued their own money to be...

Think Globally, act locally. This saying sums up Sustainability pretty well. It goes from the big to the small. We are all part of the globe, but everyone lives in a certain locality. A city, town or a village. The hermitage is a different matter, since it is, almost, self-sustainable. The practical meaning of the word is, to restrict our limits. The ways from producer to consumer have to be shortened. The trips of vegetables, fruits,...